How Did Ancient Romans Keep Kids Alive?

How Did Ancient Romans Keep Their Babies Alive? In this video, we go inside the first year of a Roman baby's life: the midwife's checklist from Soranus of Ephesus, almost two thousand years old, the newborn laid on the ground for the father to decide, by law, whether to pick up or refuse, the wet nurse hired to actually feed the child, the bronze bulla amulet hung around its neck against the evil eye, and the funerary inscription of a nine-day-old baby buried by his father — one name preserved out of the roughly one in three who never survived their first year. Along the way, we look at how a civilization with a formal medical checklist, professional midwives, and protective amulets still left a baby's survival, quite literally, up to whether someone chose to pick it up. 💬 Would the amulet have made you feel safer — or just more aware of the odds? Let me know in the comments. 🔔 Subscribe for more deep dives into the parts of ancient Rome that never make it into the textbooks. #AncientRome #History #RomanHistory #RomanEmpire #Pompeii #AncientMedicine #HiddenHistory