Dont Know Nothin' 'Bout Birthin' No Babies


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Posted by Ann on July 17, 1997 at 13:31:36:

I was wondering if a woman who had not yet had a child, would be allowed in the room during a birth. If Jane was first to have a child, would Lizzy have been allowed in the room? Or was it something of a initiation rite, presided over by mothers, with the uninitiated kept outside?




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