Pregnancy and birth in the 1970s
Pregnancy advice and hospital rules and etiquette sure have changed since the 1970s. Here are some documents from my own birth in 1978 in Australia.
About the author: Rebecca Galton
Rebecca is the Bub Hub’s website editor. She is also mother to three small, but growing, children. In her spare time she … who are we kidding, she has no spare time!
In the years BC (before children), Rebecca was web editor at NovaFM, a travel writer and entertainment editor at TNT Magazine in London and writer/sub-editor at City News in Brisbane. She also used to keep books on the bottom shelf of her bookcase, eat out occasionally and happily sleep till 7.30am … sometimes even 8!
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