Introduction; Jennifer Evans and Ciara Meehan -- PART I: NARRATIVES OF PREGNANCY, BIRTH, AND PARENTHOOD -- 1. ‘Breeding’ a ‘little stranger’: Managing Uncertainty in Pregnancy in Late Georgian England; Joanne Begiato -- 2. ‘Bound to be a troublesome time’: Canadian Perceptions of Pregnancy, Parturition and Pain, 1867-1920; Whitney Wood -- 3. Families, Vulnerability and Sexual Violence during the Irish Revolution; Justin Dolar Stover -- 4. Audible Birth, Listening Women: Storytelling the Labouring Body on Mumsnet.com; Anija Dokter -- PART II: LITERARY PREGNANCIES -- 5. Feminine Value and Reproduction in Rowley's The Birth of Merlin; Sanner Garofalo -- 6. 'Pregnant Women Gaze at the Precious Thing their Souls are Set on': Perceptions of the Pregnant Body in Early Modern Literature; Sara Read -- 7. Babies without Husbands: Unmarried Motherhood in 1960s British Fiction; Fran Bigman -- PART III: CONSUMERS, PARTICIPANTS AND PATIENTS -- 8. The Birth of the Pregnant Patient-Consumer? Payment, Paternalism and Maternity Hospitals in Early Twentieth-Century England; George Campbell Gosling -- 9. 'Closer Together': Durex Condoms and Contraceptive Consumerism in 1970s Britain; Ben Mechen.