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Pregnancy

Cars at a standstill in rush hour in Bangkok on May 25, 2020, following the lifting of the city's pandemic restrictions.

Motorcycle Midwives Brave Bangkok's Traffic to Help Expecting Mothers Deliver

The first episode of TED's Far Flung podcast looks at the city's unique challenges.

Anna Phelan June 3, 2020

A lithopedion extracted 55 years after it formed.

medical museums

A Fetus Can Turn to Stone in Its Mother's Body and Go Undiscovered for Decades

"Stone babies"—or lithopedions—are incredibly rare.

Sarah Laskow October 29, 2018

Pig's Feet and Ginger Stew

The sweet and sour Cantonese meal restores new mothers after giving birth.

Homemade soup.

Black Chicken Soup

In Asia, the black-skinned silkie chicken forms the base of a medicinal broth.

Powdered maca root.

Maca

The Andean root once fueled Inca warriors.

"The Solider Takes a Wife."

What Planned Parenthood Taught WWII Veterans About Birth Control

“The step-up in your pulse when a nifty number looks your way isn’t love. That’s sex, mister.”

Sarah Laskow September 26, 2017

East Cleveland, Ohio

The Percy Skuy Collection on the History of Contraception

Unique collection containing a wide and curious range of contraceptive items.