child-bed-woman

Updated: July 21, 2025

And now all things will go well; for as the Wet-Nurse takes care of the Child; the dry Nurse doth of the Mother, & all this pleases the good Father very well. Now Child-bed-woman your time is come to make much of your self, that you may recover strength.

A. Marsh - The Ten Pleasures of Marriage : and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple