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Wogi@lemmy.world 7 months agoThere was a much higher likelihood of dying during childbirth too.
Families with more than 4 or 5 children were almost certainly blended families.
Comment on Take me back
Wogi@lemmy.world 7 months agoThere was a much higher likelihood of dying during childbirth too.
Families with more than 4 or 5 children were almost certainly blended families.
Chetzemoka@startrek.website 7 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.)
Wogi@lemmy.world 7 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.