Childbirth and Obstetrics Society

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In our time, unfortunately, obstetrics and child care was a very underdeveloped field. Educated doctors did not want to take it up and education was not accessible to women, so as a result, obstetrics became more of a specialty for spinsters and midwives.
Childbirth was done sitting up or on a special chair. The so-called caesarean section was only used in extreme cases, when the life of the mother could not be saved anyway, or the life of the child was more precious.
Given the poor sanitary conditions or inadequate diet and the inability to breastfeed, infant mortality rates in the population were as high as 80%. Childbirth was often dangerous for the mother herself due to the inability to deal with most complications. A well-built and healthy woman spent most of her reproductive years either pregnant or breastfeeding. Eight or even twelve children (few of whom lived to adulthood) were no exception.
It was not until the Renaissance, when the process of the birth of a new life finally came into the view of medicine, that the approach to childbirth and obstetrics changed in part.

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