All posts tagged "midwife"
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6.0KbostonAnna Green Winslow Reports Aunt Sukey is Pregnant and the Groaning Cake is Made
Anna Green Winslow was a lively 12-year-old schoolgirl in pre-Revolutionary Boston who wrote to her mother about much of what she did....
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9.5K7MaineMartha Ballard, Midwife. As Good As, In Some Ways Better Than, the Best Doctors
Martha Ballard somehow managed to deliver 797 babies in the frontier community of Hallowell (now Augusta), Maine, between 1785 and 1812. She...
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