They call the Greeks "The Fathers of Medicine", but just how much did the "fathers" bother to figure out about their mothers, wives, sisters, or any woman who needed medical attention at that time?

These men - these "Fathers of Medicine" - assumed A LOT about how women's bodies and men's bodies were both similar and different. Spoiler alert: they made a lot of bad assumtions.

Join us on this journey into how wrong the learned men of any day can be, when they don't bother doing any research and guess at every turn.

In this episode, we discuss The tragic short life of Princess Charlotte, her 50 hour labor and subsequent death at the hands of…you guessed it: incompetent man midwives.

Her death in 1817 and its consequences were far reaching, probably still having an effect on your life at a wedding or around the holidays. It's truly amazing and tragic how the Princess met her end, as a woman of royalty, whose health was put in the hands of the absolutley wrong people. This episode also features the bonus of one of our cats who will not shut up during an hour where it would have been awful nice for her to.

For those of you who have heard these first episodes and noticed the audio quality is only OK, don't worry. Beginning soon, we will have all new mics and it's going to help everything sound TONS better. Thanks for hanging in with us while we get everything fine tuned!

Ahhh, the Chamberlens. What can I say about them that is even remotely polite? They probably helped some women deliver some babies throughout thier 200 year secrecy campaign over a giant, ornate chest that they hauled into the birthing chamber before everyone was kicked out and the expectant mother was blindfolded and draped in blankets.

What's in the box? Listen to this episode and find that out, and a whole lot more about how men like this are a huge problem even today, right here in the USA. If you're not at least a little pissed off at this family by the end of the episode, you might want to listen again.

Mary Toft lived the quiet life of a peasant farm worker during the mid 1700s. She was married, illiterate, and did what she could to help support her family. One day, out of nowhere, she started to give birth...to rabbits.

This episode is the tale of how man-midwives, doctors, and surgeons put poor Mary through endless torture in their search for their own fame. It is a truly wild tale, and is almost certain to make you hysterically mad.

There was a time when a woman just had to swear an oath to the church and pay a fee to be a midwife. There were no other qualifications, and that was not at all the worst of it.

In today's episode we talk about how men decided to make their way into midwifery, call themselves "Man Midwives", and then decide to invent Obstetrics so they didn't have to be called Man Midwives anymore.

This one has some jaw-dropping facts and figures from centuries gone by, many of which we have yet to outrun. Listen up and get hysterical with us, won't you?

Matt explores his "ability" to channel foreign accents as we jump into the sidewalk chalk drawing and take a tour through the development of the man-midwife. Yes. Seriously. The man-midwife was a major part of women's healthcare for quite some time. Join us and find out why it was exactly as ridiculous as it sounds, won't you?

In episode 2 we talk about the basis of modern medicine through the eyes of ancient Egypt. A lot of people think that Hippocrates is the "father of modern medicine" but he borrowed a great deal from a culture that beat him to the punch.

Find out why the Egyptian's were SOOOOO CLOSE to getting gender identity right but then EVEN MORE WRONG with how they solved that "mystery".

Egyptian culture had a long history and contributed a great deal to how we live today. A tiny bit of it could even be considered good. Now, how was our pronounciation?

In many unrelated cultures across the world, there has been, and STILL IS a phenomenon known most widely as "The Couvade". After a woman's pregnancy, the father is treated as if HE was the one who carried and delivered the baby! What?!?! Where did this come from? Why did it ever happen? Why, OH WHY, is it still happening in some places?

This is my first episode, and I know it's not specifically about women's health - but it does set the tone for the baseline of how women have been treated by doctors and the like for millenia.

Try your very best to remain sane while I tell you about this absolutely preposterous phenomenon's origins and practices. It is insane, and anything but, hysterical.