Fertility from the past

I was watching "Little House on the Prairie" on Sunday like I always do after church. The episode was the one where Caroline has baby Grace, her fifth and final child. Her fourth baby was a boy who died 4 years before. The episode was emotional. It touched briefly on how little women back then knew about what was happening to them. It also dealt, of course, with grief and death and wanting a boy to help your husband on the farm.

Anyway, I thought about women in this time period, and it really caught my attention. I could say more, but my point is that I found this interesting little Web site with the history of how women, motherhood and fertility have been thought about and understood medically and socially since the pioneer days starting in 1600.

Check it out:
Fertility History Web site