Medical Treatments For Childbirth Throughout The Renaissance

Post Partum care is generally short as the mother and infant are taken care of by the nurse midwife at the birthing center for 24 hours after the birth. In birthing centers, all postpartum care is administered in the patient’s room where the child was also given birth (Fisher 1996). After the child is born, the mother is always eager to begin breastfeeding. A few hours after the birth, when the mother is able, family members and close friends come bearing food and gifts for the mother and child. Gifts of natural herbal remedies and teas are also given to the mother to aid her health. The birth of children is very common in Amish communities with women bearing, on average,

In the Elizabethan era, medicine was incredibly simple and led to the death of millions.

There were many interesting trades presented on this website. One of these trades that interested me the most was apothecary. Apothecary in the colonial era was a druggist who had a similar roles to what a doctor does today. They didn’t just provide medical treatment, or prescribe drugs but also performed surgeries as well. Reading more about this trade, I discovered that some apothecaries even trained to become man-midwives. Before reading this article, I had the assumption that the majority of mid-wives were female, and that most men didn’t handle child birth in that time era. Furthermore, some of the ingredients used in colonial remedies, that is still found in modern medicine. Some include, but are limited to; chalk for heartburn (Tums), calamine for skin irritations (Aveeno lotions) and many more. Like many drug stores today, apothecaries also sold household items and not just drugs.

Which maternal behavior is the nurse most likely to see when a new mother receives her infant for the first time?

Prior to the 3000 BC, women tried various birth control methods. Some of the common methods included

Pregnancy in the Southern United States during and before the 19th century was rife with difficulties. Particularly the humid Southern climate was quite hospitable for malaria and epidemics were not uncommon. Quinine was the medicine of choice for malaria at the time and was a known abortifacient and was the cause behind a lot of miscarriages, stillbirths, and infant deaths. In the 19th century as Americans placed emphasis on education and training, doctors, rather than midwives, assumed the leading role in labor and delivery for upper class women. In the South particularly, doctors preferred traditional “heroic” cures such as leeching, cupping, and purging which were followed because of the region’s devotion to time-honored practices.

For hundred of years, women have wrestled with their womanhood, bodies, and what it means to be a woman in our society. Being a woman comes with a wonderful and empowering responsibility--giving birth. What sets us aside from other countries is that the process and expectations of giving birth has changed in our society; coming from midwifery, as it has always been since the early times, to hospitals where it is now expected to give birth at. Midwifery was a common practice in delivering babies in

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Does everybody think or feels the same about childbirth around the world? This question above is a question that has always been in my mind. Now that I got the opportunity of choosing a topic to do research. I decided to choose childbirth and culture. This research paper is going to talk about how different cultures and countries look a birth in an entirely different manner. Some look at birth as a battle and others as a struggle. And on some occasions, the pregnant mother could be known as unclean or in other places where the placenta is belief to be a guardian angel. These beliefs could be strange for us but for the culture in which this is being practiced is natural and a tradition. I am going to be introducing natural and c-section childbirth. And, the place of childbirth is going to be a topic in this essay. America is one country included in this research paper.

In order to heal a fractured, sprained or dislocated bone, the natives would form a padding of wet clay or rawhide to form a cast around the injury. This restricted movement, thus allowing the bone to heal properly. In another method, used by the Ojibwas, they washed the fractured arm with warm water, then greased it, applied a warm poultice of wild ginger and spikenard to ease the pain, covered it with cloth, and bound the arm with cedar splints (Vogel 215). This procedure resulted in a sling that allowed the broken bone to heal correctly. When someone broke a bone, it was crucial that the bone be able to heal properly as the injured person was needed to return to work as quickly as possible. Some Native Americans often used specific drugs to suppress ovulation and control the menstrual cycle (Vogel 5). This drug's success started researchers on the road that led to the pill, a common form of birth control today. This demonstrates that many of the needs of the people of the past are similar to the needs of the people today. In 1536, an Indian chief, Domagaia, treated an abundant disease, scurvy, by boiling the leaves and bark of a 'magical tree' and then placing the dregs upon the legs of the people that had been exposed (Morsette 5).

In the early 1500s, Dr. Pierre Chamberlen was the first to use the obstetrical forceps. Obstetrical forceps are an instrument that is similar to a pair of tongs. They are used for removing particular things from and within the human body. The main circumstances that obstetrical forceps are used for is childbirth. Obstetrical forceps help assist delivering the baby during childbirth. It does that by pressing the forceps (that looks like a pair of tongs) around the head of the infant and using the forceps to maneuver the baby out. There are different kind of obstetrical forceps that are used in the operating room. Those forceps are called Simpson forceps, Elliot forceps, Kielland forceps, and Wrigley’s forceps.

Therefore, Rest Cure is an outstanding medical practice to keep the babies safe. By doing almost nothing but lying on the bed, women seize the opportunity to do anything they can, if bed rest benefit their child in any capacity, shape, or frame. Therefore, women tend to sacrifice their own time, pain, and social life to keep their baby or babies healthy as possible. Furthermore, there are two types of doctors; the first prescribes the women to go on bed rest and the

The concoctions that existed in 19th century, with the purpose of miscarriage were made of variously tansy oil, pennyroyal, rue, ergot and even opium, and had dangerous side effects which included seizures, damage to interal organs and death.

The nurse must be mindful of each intervention initiated and the possible benefits of the intervention against its potential harmful effects for both mother and fetus. Not providing basic comfort measures for the mother can cause serious physical and emotional problems and could lead to possible fatigue and feelings of failure from the mother. The priority of this nursing intervention is to provide the mother and fetus with the least discomfort as possible and

Through the Grandmother’s Law women are assisted through the birth by strong and supportive women. Traditional healing practices used by Indigenous midwives during the birth, include therapeutic massage for relaxation, sand, heat, smoke and fire to help with pain and being spiritually strong after birth was important for the mother and baby. Traditional rituals aimed at stopping bleeding, healing, warming will be used.