#  Schlesinger Library: “Your Baby on Day 33”: Pregnancy Development Timelines from Nineteenth-Century Maternity Guides to Twenty-First Century Apps 

 



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 **February 20, 2018** 

 04:00PM - 05:30PM EST 

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 **Radcliffe Room, Schlesinger Library**  



 

 



 

 Lara Freidenfelds

 “Your Baby on Day 33”: Pregnancy Development Timelines

 from Nineteenth-Century Maternity Guides to Twenty-First Century Apps

 February 20, 2018

 4-5:30 p.m.

 Radcliffe Room, Schlesinger Library

 Consistently over the centuries, timelines have described an ideal pregnancy and ignored the large proportion of pregnancies which do not reach fruition in full-term birth. What would a more realistic and informative description of prenatal development look like?

 Lara Freidenfelds is the author of *The Modern Period: Menstruation in Twentieth-Century America*. Her next book, *Perfecting Pregnancy and Mourning Miscarriage: The History that Shaped Modern Childbearing*, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press in 2019. She holds an A.B. in Social Anthropology and a Ph.D. in History of Science from Harvard University, and her research has been supported by a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at Wellesley College. She is a regular contributor to Nursing Clio.



 

 



 

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