Ah, ok, then the At Home will probably be your best bet of the resources I know about. Orme has some stuff about it too, especially about pregnancy and the resources available to pregnant women. Gies & Gies wrote some family books about the Middle Ages that might be of great value as well. Actually most of their stuff is absolute gold.
By the 1200s, England had already established a hospital to help pregnant poor women, and Italy had some too by at least the early 1400s. From what I've seen so far, it looks like it was very unusual for a woman to give birth entirely by herself, but you may find differently as you delve deeper, and it seems logical that even if there were resources available, there would always be times when someone might be on her own on such a perilous occasion.
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Date: 2011-01-09 11:47 pm (UTC)From:By the 1200s, England had already established a hospital to help pregnant poor women, and Italy had some too by at least the early 1400s. From what I've seen so far, it looks like it was very unusual for a woman to give birth entirely by herself, but you may find differently as you delve deeper, and it seems logical that even if there were resources available, there would always be times when someone might be on her own on such a perilous occasion.