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minus-squareUnderwaterbob@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·1 year agoMore time off to take care of the fourteen children you need to have to keep your farm going.
minus-squarebanneryear1868@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year agoYou’d be having sex in the same room as all your kids and animals lived too
minus-squareickplant@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down2·1 year agoIf one dies, I’ll just pop another out, right in the field. Cut the cord, and he can get to work.
minus-squareWogi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year agoThere was a much higher likelihood of dying during childbirth too. Families with more than 4 or 5 children were almost certainly blended families.
minus-squareWogi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·1 year agoChildbirth 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.
minus-squareNorgur@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoAnd almost succumb to some form of the common cold
More time off to take care of the fourteen children you need to have to keep your farm going.
You’d be having sex in the same room as all your kids and animals lived too
If one dies, I’ll just pop another out, right in the field. Cut the cord, and he can get to work.
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.
And almost succumb to some form of the common cold