Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share Birth Stories
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
Birth Stories
How have the first hours and days after childbirth changed in the NHS?
Before the NHS, a 1932 publication describing mothers resting after labour, referred to lying-in as ranging from two weeks to two months, but attitudes have altered. In 1950 the book National Baby was published by Sarah Campion. Emily Baughan has been reading it and looks at the differences between childbirth then, memories of her mother and her own experiences.
Dr Emily Baughan is a New Generation Thinker on the scheme run by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the BBC to put academic research on radio. She is a senior lecturer in 19th and 20th century British History at the University of Sheffield, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and is working on a book, Love’s Labour, which is a history of childcare.
Producer in Salford: Ekene Akalawu
View all episodes
By BBC Radio 3
4.2
8282 ratings
How have the first hours and days after childbirth changed in the NHS?
Before the NHS, a 1932 publication describing mothers resting after labour, referred to lying-in as ranging from two weeks to two months, but attitudes have altered. In 1950 the book National Baby was published by Sarah Campion. Emily Baughan has been reading it and looks at the differences between childbirth then, memories of her mother and her own experiences.
Dr Emily Baughan is a New Generation Thinker on the scheme run by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the BBC to put academic research on radio. She is a senior lecturer in 19th and 20th century British History at the University of Sheffield, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and is working on a book, Love’s Labour, which is a history of childcare.
Producer in Salford: Ekene Akalawu
More shows like The Essay
View all
In Our Time
5,455 Listeners
The Documentary Podcast
1,808 Listeners
The Penguin Podcast
150 Listeners
Start the Week
152 Listeners
Front Row
129 Listeners
Global News Podcast
7,654 Listeners
Arts & Ideas
291 Listeners
Thinking Allowed
300 Listeners
Great Lives
478 Listeners
6 Minute English
1,761 Listeners
Learning English Conversations
1,122 Listeners
The Forum
270 Listeners
The Infinite Monkey Cage
2,078 Listeners
Newshour
1,055 Listeners
In Our Time: History
1,870 Listeners
In Our Time: Culture
597 Listeners
The LRB Podcast
294 Listeners
Bookclub
244 Listeners
The TLS Podcast
182 Listeners
Word of Mouth
57 Listeners
Curious Cases
758 Listeners
Americast
729 Listeners
You're Dead to Me
3,054 Listeners
This Cultural Life
90 Listeners