Obstetrics

field of study concentrated on pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period

Obstetrics is the medical speciality that deals with helping a woman during pregnancy and childbirth. It is part of gynaecology.

Two midwives assisting a woman in labour on a birth chair in the 16th century, from a work by Eucharius Rößlin.

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