A 15th-century "birthing girdle", inscribed with prayers and a well-thumbed crucifix image, was likely actively used in medieval childbirth, according to new research on one of the few such sashes not destroyed by time or religious revolutionaries.

Medieval women 'put faith in birth girdles' to protect them during childbirth

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