Audio guide
#1 Introduction
Narrated by Sarah Bloom with additional commentary by Michelle Millar Fisher and Juliana Rowen Barton, co-curators of Designing Motherhood
#2 Menstrual cup
Narrated by Sarah Bloom with additional commentary by Angela Garbes, author of Like a Mother and Essential Labor.
Image: Tassette, invented 1937 and produced under this name from 1959. Leona Watson Chalmers (American, 20th century) and Robert P. Oreck (American, 20th century). Photo: Erik Gould. Image courtesy Designing Motherhood.
#3 Fertility chart
Narrated by Sarah Bloom with additional commentary by Amie Bishop, advisor for OutRight Action International.
Image: Fertility Awareness Method Chart from Taking Charge of Your Fertility, 1995
#4 C-section drape
Narrated by Sarah Bloom with additional commentary by Dila Perera, executive director of Open Arms.
Photo © Clever Medical/Hefferilt Photography
#5 Birth stool
Narrated by Sarah Bloom with additional commentary by Mercedes Snyder, licensed midwife.
Image: Photo © Wellcome Collection.
#6 Baby carrying
Narrated by Sarah Bloom with additional commentary by Michelle Millar Fisher and Juliana Rowen Barton, co-curators of Designing Motherhood.
Photo © Gates Archive/Sumy Sadurni.
# 7 Breast pumps
Narrated by Sarah Bloom with additional commentary by Cyril Engmann, a neonatologist at the University of Washington, Seattle Children’s Hospital, and Providence Hospital and a senior director at PATH.
Image: SMB (breast pump) designed by Einar Egnell, 1950s. Photograph by Bengt Backlund. © Bengt Backlund/Upplandsmuseet, Uppsala, Sweden; Medela LLC
#8 Nipple shields & breastfeeding tools
Narrated by Sarah Bloom with additional commentary by Rebecca Mauldin, director of communications and development at Child Strive.
Image: Pewter Nipple Shield, Mütter Museum, Photo © Lindsey Beal
#9 Sonogram
Narrated by Sarah Bloom with additional commentary by Ari Robbins Greene, plaintiff attorney and proud dad.
The first Diasonograph, built by Kelvin & Hughes c. 1964, Photo courtesy of Dugald Cameron.
#10 Milkscapes and conclusion
Narrated by Sarah Bloom with additional commentary by Michelle Millar Fisher and Juliana Rowen Barton, co-curators of Designing Motherhood.
Photo courtesy of Aimee Koran © Aimee Koran.