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I was serving at the inn, as the births had become too few to keep me busy. A group of young nobles arrived one day, in a flutter of laughs and babble and airy gestures. Fleeing the plague in [...]

That morning, she was still in bed when she called me. She always got up before us unless she had been helping a woman birth her child all night. She lifted her night shirt, a richly embroidered [...]

I will show you how to turn the baby inside the belly if she comes upside down, how to make the opening wider for a head that is too large. Some herbs stop the bleeding, others help the womb [...]