because they killed off or disempowered the midwives and destroyed or scoffed at their accumulated knowledge and then didn& #39;t bother to study it themselves. https://twitter.com/BeeCycling/status/1388027338580021251">https://twitter.com/BeeCyclin...
Same reason that pregnancy is a mystery, and menstruation, and childbirth, and menarche, and
A quote from my unpublished poem "Fuck Braxton Hicks":
Fuck Braxton-Hicks
sticking his name on something
everyone* knew about before him.
Fuck Braxton-Hicks
sticking his name on something
everyone* knew about before him.
*Most of the women who had carried pregnancies throughout history.
His own mother had more experience*
with contractions than he ever did.
with contractions than he ever did.
*Probably. Every pregnancy is different. And science hasn& #39;t bothered to study them enough to tell us how or why.
(There& #39;s more to this footnoted poem, if anyone in a position to do so would like to publish it lmk)
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it became a bifurcating paths sort of a thread so linking some stuff back in enjoy the labyrinth
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