[post_page_title]Medieval royals had to rely on some very strange pregnancy tests[/post_page_title]
As ridiculously crowded as royal births were, no one in the Middle Ages seemed to really understand the process of bearing children. The fact that more than one in three medieval women didn’t survive it certainly didn’t help. There’s also the fact that the “quickening” – first feeling the baby move at around five months – was often the first indication the woman was even pregnant.
Unfortunately, medieval pregnancy tests left a lot to be desired. One method involved leaving a needle in a pregnant royal’s urine to see whether it rusted – if it did, she was pregnant – while another advised to mix it with wine.
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