Pregnancy in the Past: A History of Conception
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- Let’s discuss the understanding that our early modern counterparts had about how and - indeed - when to get pregnant…
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Portrait of Henry VIII by Joos van Cleve (c.1530-1535). Held by the Royal Collection Trust.
Portrait of Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond and Somerset by Lucas Horenbout (1533-1534). Held by the Royal Collection Trust.
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Instructions regarding Katherine of Aragon’s religious devotions, reproduced by Giles Tremlett in “Katherine of Aragon: Henry’s Spanish Queen” (2010).
Pechey, John, 1655-1716. A General Treatise of the Diseases of Maids, Bigbellied Women, Child-Bed-Women, and Widows Together with the Best Methods of Preventing Or Curing the Same / by J. Pechey .. , London, 1696.
Rüff, Jakob, 1500-1558. The Expert Midwife, Or an Excellent and most Necessary Treatise of the Generation and Birth of Man Wherein is Contained Many very Notable and Necessary Particulars Requisite to be Knovvne and Practised: With Diuers Apt and Usefull Figures Appropriated to this Worke. also the Causes, Signes, and various Cures, of the most Principall Maladies and Infirmities Incident to Women. Six Bookes Compiled in Latine by the Industry of Iames Rueff, a Learned and Expert Chirurgion: And Now Translated into English for the Generall Good and Benefit of this Nation. , London, 1637.
Roeslin, Eucharius,d.1526. The Byrth of Mankynde, Newly Translated Out of Laten into Englysshe. in the which is Entreated of all Suche Thynges the which Chaunce to Women in Theyr Labor, and all Suche Infyrmitees Whiche Happen Vnto the Infantes After they be Delyuered. and also at the Latter Ende Or in the Thyrde Or Last Boke is Entreated of the Conception of Mankynde, and Howe Manye Wayes it may be Letted Or Furtheryd, with Diuers Other Fruytefull Thynges, as Doth Appere in the Table before the Booke. , London, 1540.
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At age 36 I had two uterine tumors with pre-cancerous cells the size of grapefruits, and I can confirm that you can feel the movement of your organs shifting accommodate them the same as they would for a baby. I remember before my hysterectomy wondering if Mary I had something like it, because the tumors grow with estrogen and I had a lot of symptoms that could’ve been mistaken for pregnancy. Unlike poor Mary, luckily for me in 2016 surgery was an option and I’m fine now.
Poor Mary!
That’d be another interesting historical ‘what if’ - what if Mary I was actually able to successfully give birth to a son? Or a daughter?
Glad you are well! ❤
My mother suffered the sane with only 1 grapefruit size tumor. She went through absolute hell, so I can only imagine what you went through. I cannot fathom what women of the past endured without proper medical care & intervention. So many lost their lives due to what we, today, consider simple medical procedures. We are blessed with modern medicine thanks to science & women of the past.
Same (mine weren't cancerous) but I had several tumors & also an encysted ovary. I had been complaining of pain for decades but was told to just take double doses of midol or pamprin. I knew something was off but anytime I brought up hormones or peri menopause the doctors scoffed & never ordered an ultrasound. At age 42 I was told I needed a hysterectomy since my uterus was the size of a 2nd trimester pregnancy. They didn't even know about the lemon sized cyst until they were in there. I never got pregnant (took appropriate precaustions) & was told if I had (pretty unlikely) it would not have gone well. So glad I live in modern times.
I am amazed of tudor women like Catherine Carey who had 16 children, almost one every year, and survived !
My dad's mother had her first in 1901 or 1902 and her last (my dad) in 1920 - with 8 in-between. In my view, absolutely horrific. (They were very poor, moved around a lot, and often didn't live in homes with electricity or indoor plumbing). Thank goodness (and inventors) for contraception!
My grandpa was the 6th of 9 children, my other grandfather was the 5th of 11. I can't even imagine. My great-aunt used to tell a story about whenever she'd see her mom heading down the stairs wearing this one nightgown with her apron over it, she would shake her head and go, "Oh, no, we're getting another baby in the house".
My maternal grandma was the younger of 2, and she said that her own father had wanted a gaggle of children because he had been so lonely as an only child and when grandma's bro was born, their dad was ushered out of the house and not allowed to come back till the baby was cleaned and cute, and they women had gotten a chance to clean up the new mom. My grandma, however, was born in the middle of a snow storm so her father was downstairs and heard the whole birthing process- after that, he refused to get his wife pregnant again, cause he refused to put her through that pain again, so they only had two children.
The belief that orgasms were necessary for conception baffles me. On one hand, great for women if their husbands are putting in the work, but also horrific as an excuse for blaming S.A. victims who fell pregnant afterwards. 🍼
visions of a certain american politician who claimed that if it were a "legitimate 'rope'" women's bodies have ways to "shut that whole thing down". This idea has hung around.
When I was about 3 years old, I asked my dad how you "get a baby." He looked at me and said, "Well, in your mother's case, all it takes is a warm smile and a hearty handshake."
I love this! Your father sounds like a character
@@sarahwatts7152 he really was.
Your dad's a peach.🎉
@@GROK99 thanks! 😊 He was more of a nut.
My poor mother (adoptive) suffered with no available help. “Barren” (one of my least favorite words) for 25 years of marriage. 1941-1966. Then they adopted because it was that or childlessness. It Royally (pun intended) ticks me off that Catherine of Aragon was called Barren. Especially in light of what the poor girl suffered. Maybe the word meant something different back then. Because she certainly “caught” pregnant- many times! She certainly prayed for a healthy boy! Then who gets the blame for something that was 100% out of her hands?! Poor Catherine. I’ll get off my soapbox now. Just needed to vent that. 👶🏻🤰🏻
Vent! I often wondered how much the male doctors treatment may have contributed to the losses.
Poor Catherine. She really had a miserable life over all. Sent away from her home, lost her first husband early, lived in poverty because her father-in-law didn’t want to return her dowry. Then some joy when the new King married her. However, her ‘failure’ to provide a healthy male heir just heaped more misery on her.
@@jasperhorace7147 Very ironic also considering that whether a baby is male or female is up to dad - not the mother. So Henry had no one but himself to blame for having daughters!
My first mother in law told me, with great authority, that I had "child bearing hips and should have no problems at all." Murphy's Law stepped in and turned that baby so she arrived left FOOT first, I always blamed her for mozzing me 🤣The butterfly movements of the quickening, always made it real and was so reassuring.
LOL, I'm tall and sturdily built. Had my son at age 39 and my daughter at 42). My pregnancies, and deliveries were so easy that it was clear that I could have been popping them out every year or two with no problem. Thank goodness for modern contraception! Of course, the reverse can be true. My stepdaughter, who had her only child at 42, not only had a tough pregnancy with her blood pressure sky-rocketing, but also ended up immobile- whatever hormone it is that allows your pelvic bones to accommodate a birth went crazy in her case and loosened "all" of her joints- so by 7 months pregnancy, she needed a walker to walk. She didn't regain her ability to walk unaided until the baby was a month or two old. And yes, she needed a C-section.
@@renastone9355 Yeah - when I spoke with my GP about having a 3rd child she said "I can't guarantee that you will get out of a wheelchair if you do - that was the end of that idea
I remember, 49 years ago, pregnant with my first son, asking my mother (who had 4 of us, so was my go-to) what it felt like when the baby started moving. She said, "It feels like soap bubbles popping." And, a few days later, I felt that! It was so exciting!
I was told something similar by a friend who was pregnant at the same time (but ahead of me).
Remember as little as 44 years ago, when I had my last baby, Ultrasound scans were not available! I could only wonder when I would feel by baby move and what it would feel like. My, then husband’s grandma was such a good friend and told me she thought that early movement was how she imagined Butterflies trying to get out would feel! Knowing the sex of your child was unheard of!
I remember with my first baby, I gave up chocolate during my pregnancy because of the caffeine in it. While I was in the hospital having my daughter, my best friend filled all the candy dishes in my house with my favorite chocolates for when I came home.😊
Both children are so lucky to have such a brilliant, gentle and kind woman as a mom. I love how she 's taking on topics that have to do with her own pregnancy. Congratulations!
My daughter never moved. In fact I kept telling the Dr I was carrying a dead fetus and to please take it. He would let me listen to her heartbeat. I would say it is my heartbeat. I was sure the baby was dead. Dr said he had never had a baby that did not move. If she did I and no one else felt it. She was born healthy, and has never stopped moving since her birth.
I knew I was pregnant before I missed my period. The morning sickness came fast and hard. It also lasted the entire 9 months. Ugh…. My mother swore he would have red hair because I was so sick. She turned out to be spot on. He had a head full of red hair! He’s 33 now and his daughter has red hair, too! Congratulations on the baby!! 👶🍼
Sympathy for you with the sickness, I walked that path too but there was no red hair to show for it unfortunately! 😂
@@georginaturner1237 It was a tough path to walk hence I only had 1.
I LOVE GINGERS. ✌
Congratulations on your pregnancy!🤰🏻
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I think mid-wives had ways of confirming pregnancy that may or may not have been written down. I believe the quickening became the best marker for pregnancy because so many were lost in those early months. Quickening happens usually near the 5th month, well after those early months. My experiences, with quickening, were hieghten awareness. It seem like, each time, each baby was introducing themselves to me. 🤰🚼
It’s a miracle anyone was born with all the restrictions that the church put on when, and how you could conceive. But then, this shows you how much lip service people showed to the church!
Such pressure was put on women, especially high born women to produce errors. No wonder some of them invented the quickening out of whole cloth. But then the mind is a wonderful thing!
Thanks for this video. More please!!
"... to produce errors" may be the best misuse of the English language I've ever seen in my career as a writer and editor. 😂😂😂
@@morrigan908 thank you! I didn’t mean it that way, but I was using the dictation function and failed to proof my copy.😮 But on the rereading I think it works rather nicely 😊
I'm even more amazed the Chinese emperors had any heirs. They had vast harems and regular sex but were forbidden to ejaculate except at certain times in order to preserve his strength. Poor guy's!
Congrats on your 2nd baby on the way! May your pregnancy be easy, your labor short, recovery quick, and both of you healthy! 💙
Thank you for the very interesting video! I’m currently in the midst of an IVF cycle and every single step of conception is so meticulously planned, scheduled and tracked. It seems crazy that the women of the past had so little knowledge to cling to when trying to conceive. Best wishes and congratulations on your pregnancy Dr Kat, and if anyone reads this comment please send me good vibes for my IVF 🙏🤞🥰
Good vibes to you!
Such an interesting topic, and it leaves open the door to so many other topics like Confinement, the treatment of newborns, the use of wet nurses (and why the aristocracy eschewed breath feeding) and birth control in the Middle Ages. Thank you! 🐣
It wasn't just the aristocracy that utilized Wet Nurses.
Here in the States, Mark Twain's children had Wet Nurses.
I certainly did not feel pregnant during my pregnancy! I was not sick at all, and it only became real when my tummy grew and I felt him move. Thanks so much for this series!
Lucky you
I could smell the change in my urine with every pregnancy. I actually smelled it on the last one a day before it was detectable via the at-home pregnancy test (I was so confused because I KNEW from the smell that I was pregnant. I realized the next day I was just more sensitive than the test). I can totally believe that some people could tell based on urine.
The quickening of my first baby felt like lots of fluttering butterflies - extraordinary and unexpected!
Fascinating topic. I would love to see it continue into discussions of menopause, though I know it wasn't much discussed in the past. Congrats on you pregnancy, I hope you and baby continue to be healthy.
Kat, When I felt my baby move for the first time, I was beside myself. There is no feeling like it in the world. I'm sure you know this feeling. He is 49 now, lol and I still recall the feeling clearly!!
Agree, it is an undescribable experience. But as always there are the pros and the cons: during the last weeks of pregnancy my son was so lively that his movements really hurt and stopped me in my activity.
I used to say: "This boy will be born either with skies or with soccer boots". Turned out he came with ballet slippers...😉
He must have tried his first fouettés within my womb - since he had a knot in his umbilical cord.
I feel your pain! The first meal after I gave birth to my son- literally in the hospital bed- was sushi 😂 I missed that more than anything. But we do whatever we can for our children. I wish you a safe pregnancy 🤰
Congratulations on your little ones and best wishes for a safe pregnancy and delivery! I’m so glad you are making this series! During my own pregnancies I wondered a lot how things were for women of the past, especially since things like ultrasounds were uncommon even a generation ago. I had two complicated twin pregnancies in a row, so I had lots of monitoring. Thankfully, all 4 of my babies are safe and healthy. We received a lot of dedicated care. I’d love to know more about multiple pregnancies and births in the past! 🍼🍼🍼🍼
Congrats on your pregnancy, Dr Kat! Thanks for the very informative video too! 🍼👩🍼🫄👼
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I feel so bad for all the pressure that has been put on women in history, and all the blame, that has come from a lack of knowledge of the role that each partner plays in health and gender of babies
A fascinating presentation as always. Brava! With all those restrictions, it’s amazing anyone conceived. Poor Henry VIII: absolutely no clue that he determined the sex of his children. 🤰
Thanks for the trip down memory lane. For all too long I took my basal temp. and tracked everything like you described. Thanks to modern medicine and an amazing doctor in Ontario, we have two beautiful sons.
Greetings from Colorado Springs USA! Ready for more Dr. Kat and enlightening content. Much love to everyone.
Colorado here too! xo
Oh Dr. Kat! You are honoring our USA Independence Day with your darling shirt! Thank you! You’re such a sweetie!🎆
It would surprise the heck out of me if couples adhered to these days of abstinence, knowing how males are.
I did find that it was hard to hope that I was pregnant until the doctor could tell me they could hear a heartbeat. It was only with my third pregnancy that i was able to see my baby with a scan as they had just become available.
I am loving how with your first baby you announced it as a project you had been working on - such a surprise, and this time you’re really leaning into it. Wishing you the best!!
😢😭😬🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢 me 30yrs ago before the kid . Stayed sick and crying during the whole pregnancy! 9months of wanting to see my hubby just as sick and in pain as me! But of course he was not and even took the best care of me. I am so lucky to have him. Our kid is just fine now grown up. Blessings
First off: Congratulations to you, Dr.Kat and to your family! All my best wishes for a healthy, safe pregnancy and delivery (and here's hoping that your son will take well to being a big brother!). I remember being told by a doctor that prior to my weekly scan (not the ultrasound, it was the other scan, wear I had to have a belt attached to me and watching a print out -- can't remember what it's called), to eat a big breakfast as that would make the baby be really active and would help. I remember feeling like John Hurd in "Alien" watching my son push against my belly and wondering if he was going to push through my abdomen, it was THAT vigorous (he must have really liked my eggs, sausage, toast and orange juice that I had eaten!). Yeah, I didn't feel any "quickening" until after the 20th week.
Thanks Dr Kat.I loved how you had a little smirk at Beans being thought an aphrodisiac - a male excuse perhaps - perhaps the wind it created meant he was very fertile?😂😂. You are blooming! I hope you feel as well as you look? Best wishes
I just found this channel a few weeks ago, and I’m really loving it! 💖👩🍼
Dr. Kat is a wonderful teacher and this is a great community of intelligent people! Welcome! Another channel that is sort of similar is "History Calling" (not a paid promotion😄).
Lucky you. It will be ages before you’ve caught up on all Dr Kat’s wonderful videos. Enjoy and indulge.
So 400 years ago celibate priests were telling women what to do with their bodies. Plus cá change.
Yep. Although nowadays in the US, non-celibate (presumably) Catholics on the Supreme Court are telling women what to do. As you say...
As a 31 year old woman in the beginning stages of trying to conceive, this video is so well timed! I love your channel, I hope you're comfortable for the rest of your pregnancy and hoping for a happy, healthy babe! 👶🏼
Well done Dr. Kat! I have ALWAYS wondered if Catherine of Aragon was counseled against spending hours on her knees, fasting, making pilgrimages, eating certain foods etc. to safeguard her pregnancies, or help promote conception. Or was she encouraged to do these things that might ultimately prove detrimental, in the vain hope that God would bless her with a healthy child for her sacrifice. And now here we have it, from the pope himself, that she must NOT cultivate piety in this way, and that she must take care of herself and that her husband must command her to do so. I'm glad because I like Catherine, and I hated to think she did some of these things hoping to please God, and therefore conceive, when the opposite might have been true.
Also, I just want to mention that while beans may be an aphrodisiac for men, they certainly have the opposite effect on their partners, IMHO ;-)
Hi Dr. Kat! Good video as always. I would suggest the article "Does Urine Cause Rust?", which was written by Evan Cooper and updated in early 2022. As Mr. Cooper says, "Urine can cause rust since it contains water and ammonia which is acidic in nature." Not just pregnant urine, all urine, even dog and cat urine. As a result, depending on the metal used to make the needle, the dunk-it-in-the-urine way of determining pregnancy is hogwash. Since noble metals like gold, silver and platinum don't rust, a gold needle will tell you nothing, but a lead needle will rust. Hope this helps!
I vaguely remember Dr Kat doing a video on contraception a while back. I feel it would fit in this series. Could it be added into the playlist as well?
I adore this series! 🤰🏻I love placing this in context, especially living as a mother of a young girl child myself in the United States, where the state (and perhaps indirectly, “the church”) is reasserting a level of authority over pregnancy and conception.
Me watching this while making a charcuterie board 😅
All the best during your pregnancy 💚
Great video, love watching you every Friday 🤰👶🏼🤱
Thank you again for a great video! I am 25 weeks pregnant and only been feeling my baby moving from week 23. Have seen my baby 3 times before I felt her, it really didn't feel really until those little kicks started. Just can"t imagine what the whole pregnancy experience must have felt like in the Tudor times? I am anxious and scared now, must have been very scary back then!
Good luck with the pregnancy!
I found that two to three weeks after missing my period, I'd start with morning sickness, 24/7. It was horrible and would last until my 2nd trimester. I wonder how many women were/are affected by this since it's definitely a sign of pregnancy.
Hi Kat, Congratulations. For many women though couldn't morning sickness have been a first sign?
The quickening of my first baby was fairly early the end of my first trimester and it felt like a little fish swimming around and around very active and I can say he is always full of energy and ideas very creative happy boy ❤
Congratulations on your pregnancy.👶
Hi Dr Kat, hope you’re keeping well. No ultrasound sounds when I was having children but, with the firsts, thought I had a horrendous flu that wouldn’t go away! Know now it was what the princess of Wales had. I was talking to the old lady next door ( I could see over her back fence as we were higher up) and I said - ever so politely - oh dear, Mrs Mitchell, I’m going to faint ( which I did). She told me later that the babies had quickened. With the next baby I knew I was pregnant 🤰at 3 days! Long story of why but I was right. I remember watching movies when younger and someone would go to the dr for a test and they’d say ‘ the rabbit died’ ( meaning you were pregnant. ). Oh, how that haunted me. I didn’t want any rabbits being killed for me!!!! Times change and we learn more. Sometimes good, sometimes - not so sure. Keep well. I have the notification bell on etc but sometimes I just have to go looking for you. Darn you tube 🤰🤰🤰👩🍼👩🍼👩🍼👼👼👼🙏🙏🙏👵🇦🇺
I meant to note it in the last video, but congratulations to you, Mr. Kat, and your son on your new family member!
Loving this series, and especially the context surrounding the science as well the cultural aspects. Perhaps midwifery next? Or the idea of confinement? Looking forward to it, as ever!
I still remember the excitement of seeing and feeling my niece's foot through my sister's belly!!
so, you talked about Catherine of Aragon's religious practises, and how the pope told her she needed Henry's permission to fast. I had a completely different emotional response to that. I respect that, for you, "across the centuries, pregnancy comes with extra nutrition rules" is the obvious conclusion, and I can see that it is an accurate statement.
I was horrified. her husband had the "right" to ban her from religious practices if he thinks it's bad for the baby, even if they don't believe she's pregnant yet. best case scenario, she understands it as "I have the pope's blessing to skip fasting, so eating on fast days is safe for my soul". but did she trust the pope's word on that? and if not, if she saw eating on fast days as endangering her soul, what then? if she refuses, could he force feed her? lock her up?
you're choosing to eat the horse pill sized multivitamins and not eat the high risk foods or drink alcohol. your doctors can advise, your husband can have opinions, but if ultimately you decided to go against your doctor's advice or your husband's preferences, you'd be able to do it. and to me, the right for people who understand the risks to make "bad" choices if they want to is important.
(for context: I would make the best choices I could if I was pregnant, but I have a disability that makes a lot of medical interventions difficult or impossible. there have been a lot of situations in my life where I've been well aware of the "good" choice, done everything I could to manage that and ultimately been forced into the "bad" choice. and oh, the judgement! oh, the patronising simplification of the language around the risks & benefits! but as much judgement as I get, actually being forced would be so much worse)
(please be gentle if you respond.)
I understand and agree with you - the informed choice is the mother's choice (or should be). I am so sorry for the issues you have had and the misplaced judgment you have faced from others. Obviously, those folks aren't "walking a mile in your shoes" or they would keep their thoughts to themselves. Blessings.
I absolutely love your videos. I read a lot of history, and your videos complement the books I read and give me a wider, woman's perspective. By the way, I'm sure you know: Christine de Pisan talks at length about the humors in "The Book of the City of Ladies."
With my first they feared it may be ectopic so I had an early ultrasound (internal, what fun). But it certainly made it real from the very beginning ❤
As always, a fantastic video! ❤
I remember observing on The Great they used urinating on wheat shafts as a pregnancy indentifier. Apparently if the woman was pregnant the wheat would sprout. Considering the source, I am not confident this was true (we all know how accurate The Great was. Huzzah!) but it does sound at least plausible 👶🌾
Thanks for another great video, Dr. Kat. I'll have to binge watch the ones I've missed, especially since you have covered some content I asked to see in comments and live chat in the past.
Congratulations on your lil babe❤
Super fascinated by midwifery and fertility focused practices and rituals of our ancestors. Right now I've been focusing on what pilgrimages and offerings to various saints was like in the medieval period . Loved this video, thank you! 🐣🍼
Very interesting I find history of medicine and medical humanities fascinating 👩🍼
👶👶👶Congrats on the new baby!
Always fascinating thank you! And congratulations on your pregnancy! ❤
How scary it most have been back then, wondering but not sure if you were pregnant. If you were you still had to hope you lived through the delivery. We are so fortunate now! Congratulations on your pregnancy, I hope you feel well. Congratulations to the big brother as well, is he excited?😊
Excited to experience the baby experience, hopefully sooner rather than later. Very interesting to listen to!!!!
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Missed the premiere sadly but rewatching now 😊
It wasn’t so long ago that a scan of any kind was non-existent! We had to wait until our children were born to know whether it was a boy or girl. I felt movement with my first baby into the fourth month of the pregnancy. I didn’t realize that I leaned against the counter at the sink when I washed the dishes and it felt as though my baby was pushing away, what a WONDER! With my second baby I felt movement at 3 months. I found,master her birth that she must have been stretching in there!
It can’t possibly have been 46 & 45 years ago, can it?!
I had a similar experience carrying my second child. I also had PCOS, which is so misunderstood that I can only cringe when I imagine what it must have been like for people with uteri in the past. Especially given the hormonal changes it affects on the body, from insulin resistance to burst cysts. 👶
💗😊congratulations on your new baby to come. Love your videos 😊
I am loving this series! 🤰👶❤
Happiest of wishes on your pregnancy! And yes, I think it must have been torture for women to experience the pressure to conceive and deliver multiple babies, to experience infertility/limited fertility, miscarriage and still birth(s). With no real, objective answers as to why it was happening, it must have been so very sad. We still lack concrete answers to so many fertility or loss-of-pregnancy issues. Thank you for a fascinating video. 🙂
I already knew about the limited days of the year the church allowed for trying to conceive, but it still made me laugh to hear the numbers! "Be fruitful & multiple (but only on the 2nd Tues of the week)!!!😂
Congratulations, and thank you for another great video! 🎉❤😊
Congratulations on your pregnancy! Praying that the process is smooth and as pleasant as is possible ♥️
Fantastic channel!
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Thank you, Dr Kat! ❤
When I got pregnant, I didn't know for almost three months. It was August when conception (accidentally) happened, and September when a whole lot of stressful things happened that had me thinking it was why no periods had happened. I was about to perform in a musical (funnily enough as an ensemble nun in Sister Act, lol) I was starting my first year in my college's textile design program, and even more stressful was that my dad was in the hospital having quintuple bypass heart surgery (which is the only reason he is still with us) needless to say I was shocked. I had no morning sickness to lip me off about it.
This is probably a stupid question. But how did anyone come to the conclusion that women were under-formed men? What exactly was their understanding of how humans make other humans if women are just men who didn't fully form as such in the womb? I could be misunderstanding what you said. And for that, I apologize. I'm just trying to wrap my head around the concept 😅
I had the same thought! They knew babies came from women, so....if men were the fully formed version of humans (with fewer/no women around), how would they have expected to have any heirs??
Just an extension of misogyny and seeing females as lesser than males.
I heard somewhere else that they thought the female reproductive tract (not gonna say the word since yt will flag it) was just an inverted 🍆, that may have served to further encourage the "women are just underdeveloped men" theory. Though if they were Christians it says clearly in the Bible that Eve (women) was made by God to be the partner of Adam (men), he made women the way he wanted them to be from the beginning and he's supposed to be a perfect being that doesn't make mistakes so...tell me how these dudes thought women were not fully formed 🤦🏽♀. If they had somehow been able to come up with a way to "perfect" the female form into the "proper" and "superior" male form then how were more men supposed to be born? Who would care for the home,etc, since that wasn't men's work? 🤷🏽♀
Love your content! Thanks For this! 🔥🔥🔥🔥
I can't recall the specifics, but there was supposed to be a way to determine pregnancy by urinating on certain seeds. If they sprouted, you were pregnant. The reason I recall this is that whatever this test was, they tried recreating it-with surprisingly accurate results!
🚼 i went searching for a stork. No luck. The only baby related emoji I could find was the sign for Changing Station.
🎉 congratulations btw. 🎉
Such wonderful news, congratulations 🎉
All the best to you in your pregnancy and furure!
I was fully aware of all my pregnancies before they could even reliably check for HCG. I was happy with the first, annoyed with the second (having problems with the father) Scared during the third, ( I had just miscarried ) and relieved that I miscarried the fourth (again bad time with father), I had yet to miss a period, and would not have registered pregnant with tests, that was about 3 weeks into the pregnancy. Mostly it was from the other signs: sore nipples, heavy breasts, difficulty with certain foods, & early morning sickness. Had 2 normal pregnancies with 2 healthy babies👩🍼.
Congrats, Dr.Kat!
Congratulation on Dr. Kat Jr. the second! I hope you enjoy your grand feast after they come! 🎉👶
God, imagine having such a bad sex life that the freaking *pope* has to step in. Though that never seems to work out! I always think of Queen Eleanor and her first marriage to Louis where instead of giving them a divorce, the pope initially gave them a bed and told them to have a son… obviously that didn’t work! 🤦♀️
I always found it ironic that women were considered “weak and inferior” in humor theory when we now know with modern medicine and genetics that female are much more resilient and less likely to have genetic problems. Of course, many of these texts were more concerned with reinforcing the social order than actual scientific accuracy…
Excellent talk; as usual! ❤
Congratulations on your pregnancy 🤰
Ive given birth twice and i still dont know how it works! The look on my ob/gyn's face when i thought the baby's umbilical cord went to the back of my belly button 😂
I used to think that! it seemed so logical, plugged in, belly button to belly button, one at each end...
@@aShadeBolder 🙆🏽♀️ Thank you! Please tell my mom there is nothing wrong with my cognitive function 🤣
🐣🐣🐣 Fascinating!
Congratulations to you! I’m sure you’re an amazing mother, just as your videos are amazing!
How lovely. Have a happy baby!
You are amazing! I looked thru your content for something about how the regular citizens survived during Tudor England when religeous persecutions regularly switched to and fro in regards to Catholicism. I was unable to locate one. Thanks!
The 2 ideas from the past that make me the most angry are surrounding fertility. A woman being "Barren" being her "fault" or punishment from God. AND that a child's gender being a CHOICE or "fault" of the mother. I would love to see the faces of these men learning that the MAN is responsible for gender!
🤰🍼🐣🚼🤱👨🍼🧷🪇 they didn't have rattles so i put mariachis 😂 congratulations on mini dr kat 2
Thank you! 👼🏼
Welp. I read that the number of children in theb1300s was on average 1.9 and dropped to 1.4 in the 1400s. I guess with all those days where you can't have sex , that explains why family sizes were on average low.