Pessaries

In this case, not the good-smelling kind that tempts the uterus to move or expel its liquids, but the kind that KEEPS YOUR UTERUS IN PLACE. (The German word for this is Mutterzäpfchen, which is like "mother suppositories" for lack of a modern translation. Granted, they got much smaller and ended up looking more like tampons [unlike the one below] later on.)

Some examples can be seen here, and I took one to show you what I'm talking about: