#Obstetrics

[mysharona1987]

[heardatmedschool]

Intern 1: I just went into my first C-section!

Intern 2: How did it go?

Intern 1: I don’t want children anymore.

[blondebrainpowered]

Angélique Marguerite Le Boursier du Coudray (c. 1712 – 17 April 1794) spent twenty-five years traveling the towns of France, teaching obstetrics in an effort to share her extensive knowledge with poor country midwives. Madame Du Coudray invented the first life size obstetrical mannequin, or “The Machine”, for practicing mock births. Only one example of the original machine, patented in 1778, survived and is on display in the Musée Flaubert et d’histoire de la médecine in Rouen, France. It includes a life-size mannequin representing the lower part of the female body, a doll the size of a newborn baby, and various accessories demonstrating female anatomy, a seven-months fetus, twins, etc. Between 1760 and 1783, she traveled all over rural France, sharing her extensive knowledge with poor women. During this period, she is estimated to have taught in over forty French cities and rural towns and to have trained 4,000 students directly. She was also responsible for the training of 6,000 other women, who were taught directly by her former students. In addition, she taught about 500 surgeons and physicians, all of them men. In her thirty years of teaching she taught over 30,000 students. Through this educational effort Du Coudray became a national sensation and international symbol of French medical advancement. Via Anonymous Works.

[antithesisofindifference]

I feel like no one's discussing the significance of the circumstances in which Jen was bound. Jen was a midwife, she became bound when she showed up to an obstetrics conference. I find it interesting that Jen had someone under the guise of obstetrics take away her power and autonomy when in US history, the field of obstetrics was created through torturous "experiments" and "surgeries" on enslaved black women because they believed they couldn't feel pain. I'm so impressed by the parallel here, and how they are linking persecution of witches to other forms of oppression as well.

[thestarlightforge]

Agatha left Jennifer alone because she was doing “the real work.” Not just as a witch, but as an 11th generation root worker and midwife.

Because if she’d had a Jen instead of being isolated and alone, Nicky might have had a chance.

[yours-trudy]

The Lady Mechanic. The Chick Checker-Upper. The Womb Worker.

[nemfrog]

"The Pelvis, with soft parts (bladder, rectum, uterus, and its appendages having been removed." A text-book of obstetrics. 1898.

Internet Archive

[drafthearse]

wall charts for obstetric education. University Museum Utrecht. [x] [x] [x]

[annoyedmultitrylionnaire]

[no-passaran]

November 25th is the international day for the elimination of violence against women. One of the cases where certain kinds of violence (sometimes very extreme, even having been considered torture by UN standards) against women and people perceived as women is normalized is obstetric violence, so I wanted to share this short clip about how healthcare professionals can begin to address it by incorporating respect.

Clip from the documentary “Dona, vostè no té res!” by TV3 about obstetric violence.

[merlinr77-steth]

Uwe Ochsenknecht as Gynecologist Helmut Kraatz in German history drama series "Charité" (S03E02) checking the pregnant belly of a patient with a Sprague/Rappaport stethoscope.

[heardatmedschool]

“I can feel the misogyny and the malpractice in the air.”

(Yes, it was about gyno).

[lesbianlenses]

[iliveinatoadstool]

I'll make you proud @bil-daddy !!

[she-karev]

[icelandicapricot]

Every time I hit a bump in the road I think of Bildaddy the Shuite; the cobbler/obstetrician 😌💖💅✨