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Martha Ballard, a great Maine midwife, invested their lifetime balancing their particular work taking infants with a cerebral-boggling range of residential responsibilities: spinning, knitting, stitching, getting ready the family dinner, tending chickens and you can sheep. Around 1800, just like the she reached their particular 1970s, she started initially to scale back; but the other regional midwife passed away and you may Ballard stepped up. (“The person are safer brought in the step three hour pm away from her fifth child. We tarried all day.”) For the another occasion, immediately following mom and you may child was actually taken care of, Ballard took a great nap, got particular breakfast for the family members, rode onto see a different diligent, then came the home of would “my work and several mending.” Besides providing infants, she prepared bodies to own burial and decided to go to the latest ill, either dispensing drugs off her very own and work out. 阅读更多