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Oh, I know what was available at the time: Fundal massage, when the uterus was pounded on with one hand from the vagina side, with the other on the abdomen, to make it contract. Uterine packing, when uterus was stuffed with something, like bandages, for example, to apply pressure to bleeding...

She has a loving husband. However, after months of her illness, after staying with her throughout some 48 hours of her labor (I know it was unusual at the time, but it makes sense in the story), after seeing her almost bleed to death only to succumb to this terrible illness just a few hours...

Hi, everyone! I am writing a story set in 1880s England. The heroine develops severe anemia later in her pregnancy; has a difficult labor, because she is weak as a result of anemia; then post-partum hemorrhage; then childbed fever because treatment for pph is pretty invasive and sterilization...