Balancing Life & Work with Your Newborn
Something to Seriously Think About
Mothers have it harder today than, perhaps, at any time during the last several hundred years. Well, it will depend on how you define “difficulty”, of course. In the 1800s, owing to a lack of hygienic sanitation during the delivery of newborns, many mothers died in childbirth. Today, proper hygiene protocols reduce that issue.
But a mother in the 1800s didn’t have to juggle her career and social status in quite the same way. Certainly, there were women who acted in a professional manner—it is a huge misconception that women never occupied positions of power in antiquity. The terms “Elizabethan” and “Victorian”, both in reference to matriarchal royalty, inherently show as much.
That said, most women weren’t breadwinners in the past. While this is seen...




