🗓️ Today is International Day of the Midwife, so I thought I’d share a couple of quotes from Margaret Bennett’s fantastic Scottish Customs from the Cradle to the Grave: theaddersden.wordpress.com/2025/05/05/%... 📖
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🧀 From down in Hawick, 1911: “The children born in Hawick in the olden times were, with few exceptions, ushered into the world with the aid of the howdie or midwife; for the practice of midwifery w…