How Design Has Shaped Motherhood and Reproductive Health

All Of It with Alison Stewart | Oct 8, 2025

A new exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Design looks at 150 years of design history, and how certain designs have shaped motherhood and reproductive health. Curators Alexandra Schwartz and Elizabeth Koehn discuss the intersection between design and motherhood, and listeners share designs or products that they associate most with their experience of motherhood or pregnancy. "Designing Motherhood: Things that Make and Break Our Births" is on view through March 15.

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