There was a time when a woman just had to swear an oath to the church and pay a fee to be a midwife. There were no other qualifications, and that was not at all the worst of it.

In today's episode we talk about how men decided to make their way into midwifery, call themselves "Man Midwives", and then decide to invent Obstetrics so they didn't have to be called Man Midwives anymore.

This one has some jaw-dropping facts and figures from centuries gone by, many of which we have yet to outrun. Listen up and get hysterical with us, won't you?