to say WHAT THE FUCK?!!

[MyBreadIsEggy]

Just that really.

allthatsinteresting.com/symphysiotomy

And I thought trying to have a wee with stitches after a 2nd degree tear was bad

ThinkOf your poor Nana!
I had never heard of this before either!!
I think what completely blindsided me, is that the contraption originally used for it, was the basis for the modern chainsaw - the tree-felling kind
Same with the American gynae who invented the speculum by using bent spoons on African slaves Totally unimaginable barbarism

Fuck. That’s brutal. Those poor women.

20 minute documentary on some of the other appalling ways women were treated in Ireland. The brave women who campaigned for justice over this are featured.

Rugger I’ll give it a look once the small humans are in bed