Born to a Changing World : Childbirth in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Open Air and the Whare Kōhanga Māori Birth Ways -- Giving birth outside or in the whare kōhanga -- Assistance during the birth -- After the birth - recovery and the removal of tapu -- Lying In Pākehā Birth Ways -- The early missionaries and childbirth -- Colonial midwifery -- 'Comfortable rooms' available -- Doctors as birth attendants -- The monthly nurse -- Lying in -- The roles of families and fathers -- Doing it by the book -- 'Destitute and Ailing' Giving Birth in Hospital -- Hospitals and the spread of disease -- The exceptions - Dunedin and Oamaru -- The Otago Benevolent Institution lying-in ward -- A 'very rare and dangerous operation' -- A revolution to come -- 'What Beautiful Children These Are!' Clothing the Baby -- Preparing ahead -- Dressing the 'little stranger' -- The fashionable baby -- Clothing for the poor -- Changing styles in Māori baby clothing -- From Wet Nursing to Condensed Milk Changes in Infant Feeding -- Wet nursing -- Hand feeding and infant mortality -- The development of infant foods -- The feeding bottle -- Imbibing character along with milk -- Christening, Churching and Circumcision The Religious Rituals of Childbirth -- The history and theology of Christian baptism -- Emergency baptism -- Church christenings -- Folk beliefs and the significance of christening robes -- Private baptisms and parties -- Godparents -- Churching - restoring purity and rendering thanks -- Māori rituals - tohi and Christian baptism -- The Jewish congregations -- Choosing a name -- 'The Angel of Death Was Waiting for Them' Maternal Illness and Death -- Mortality rates in the context of nineteenth-century life -- The effects of puerperal fever and other infectious illnesses -- Death from haemorrhage or 'flooding' -- Medical manslaughter -- Midwives before the courts -- Abortion.

The association between childbirth and mental illness -- The impact of maternal death on families -- 'She Has No Baby Now To Call Her Mother' Infant Death -- Stillbirths -- Premature and tiny babies -- The significance of nutrition and infectious diseases -- Accidental death -- Infanticide and concealment of birth -- The abandoned -- Epilogue -- APPENDIX: COURT CASES -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- ENDNOTES -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- About the Author -- Original Print Edition Cover -- Copyright and Publisher Information.

Emerging from diaries, letters and memoirs, the 'voices' of this history tell of new life amidst a turbulent world. Tracing Maori and Pakeha experience, the narrative is centred on mothers, their babies and families: this is their history.

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