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Motherhood is constant work — and the rules are always being rewritten Original

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By Conz Preti Verified, Elinor Cleghorn, Henry Blodget Verified
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Mothering is a continual history, one that is constantly being written as the work of affirming and sustaining life continues. I have been a mother for 18 years. I am past the time when my children needed everything from me, when caring for them subsumed all my time and energy. I look at them now, thoughtful and kind, gentle and funny, and think, I made you. They are entirely themselves; they are their own people.
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Meet Hildegard of Bingen, the German Mystic Who Destigmatized Women’s Health

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By Elinor Cleghorn
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In the Middle Ages, birthing women and hopeful mothers were not honoring their saints purely out of religious duty. Like the appeals made by women during the antiquity to midwife goddesses, prayer and supplication were ways to affirm intentions for healthy pregnancies, calm labors, and living children. Where ancient midwives had summoned divine assistance by uttering incantations, medieval maternity caregivers called upon saintly mothers by reciting rhythmical charms.
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The Ancient Greek Roots of Medical Sexism

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By Elinor Cleghorn
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This is an excerpt from A Woman’s Work: Reclaiming the Radical History of Mothering by Elinor Cleghorn. In the fifth century BCE, in a suburb of Athens, a physician and midwife named Phanostrate lived and died. Her life’s work was memorialized in a scene carved in relief on to the stone of her funerary monument. Phanostrate is seated on an ornate chair while a woman named Antiphile stands before her, clasping Phanostrate’s hands in hers.
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