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We adopted a divide-and-conquer method for addressing these questions and turned our attention to books and historical newspaper databases. What forms of birth control were available to Victorian women, and how were they generally perceived?.Were caesarean sections practiced in Victorian Britain?.Was there a historical basis for the fear that wet nurses committed widespread infanticide?.

How was baby farming marketed to the Victorian public, and how long were children expected to stay at (reputable) baby farms?.

With that said, we left our first meeting with many unanswered questions. These texts helped us to construct a preliminary overview of our core course topics. We reviewed histories of Victorian fertility, family planning, and contraception, adding Simon Szreter to the above list of authors.

At our first meeting, we discussed texts on childbirth, infanticide, and postpartum psychosis by scholars such as Aeron Hunt, Cynthia N. Mary Elizabeth, Kate, and I set aside the first two weeks of our summer directed reading to explore the sociohistorical contexts of pregnancy, childbirth, and maternity in Victorian Britain.