Ciąża i narodziny dziecka w świetle Prospektu Wesołego Miłosiernych Oczu, Przenayświętszey Maryi (...) z Gory S. Gostynskiey (XVI–XVIII w.)
Pregnancy and Delivery in Light of Prospekt Wesoły Miłosiernych Oczu, Przenayświętszey Maryi (...) z Gory S. Gostynskiey (the Book of Miracles of the Sixteenth–Eighteenth centuries)

Summary/Abstract: Prospekt Wesoły Miłosiernych Oczu, Przenayświętszey Maryi (...) z Gory S. Gostynskiey showed that the troublesome delivery were most frequent. As it is seen from the notes, as many as 30–40% of difficult labours resulted in giving birth to a dead baby. The remaining groups: complications of both pregnancy and puerperium, turned out to be less numerous. The book mentions also the unqualified midwives, and measures they used to apply. It should be added that the description dealt merely with procedures related to reviving a baby (mouthto-mouth resuscitation) as well as evaluation of its condition. Omitting the steps which mothers might have been subjected to was a consequence of focusing on a newborn, especially the male one. Prospekt made it also possible to answer the questions about the quality of family, neighbourly ties, votive offerers and votive gestures.

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