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Underwaterbob@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• norgur@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And almost succumb to some form of the common cold

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• ickplant@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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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  • Wogi@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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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    • Chetzemoka@startrek.website ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I mean, my great grandmother gave birth to nine children. So I wouldn’t be so quick to assume they’re mostly blended families. One mother having that many children without dying wasn’t uncommon. (It’s just that dying in childbirth also wasn’t uncommon.)

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      • Wogi@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        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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• banneryear1868@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You’d be having sex in the same room as all your kids and animals lived too

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