medieval advice to pregnant women

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Advice to pregnant women, medieval style...

http://www.medievalists.net/2010/01/25/advice-concerning-pregnancy-and-health-in-late-medieval-europe-peasant-women%E2%80%99s-wisdom-in-the-distaff-gospels/

Advice Concerning Pregnancy and Health in Late Medieval Europe: Peasant Women’s Wisdom in The...

medievalists.net

Of the more than 200 pieces of advice contained in The Distaff Gospels, a mid-15th-century Old French collection of women’s lore recently available for the first time in modern English, almost half concern aspects of health: pregnancy, predicting the sex of the foetus