Take me back
Take me back
Before you all get your panties in a twist, I know it's technically not true.
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More time off to take care of the fourteen children you need to have to keep your farm going.
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And almost succumb to some form of the common cold
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You'd be having sex in the same room as all your kids and animals lived too
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If one dies, I'll just pop another out, right in the field. Cut the cord, and he can get to work.
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There was a much higher likelihood of dying during childbirth too.
Families with more than 4 or 5 children were almost certainly blended families.
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Childbirth was the primary cause of death for women in the middle ages
Your great grandmother had the benefit of centuries of modernization that the women we're talking about did not. And even then, she was probably an outlier.
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