puffdamagikdragon
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I'll get back to ya, still readin the link provided (while mixin pancakes). I do think it was 8 outta 10, my bad if I was off by one, and yes, most women were actually under the age of 20 and were made to spit out babies, even in medicine preggers women are more likely to have REALLY bad problems while pregnant, I myself had gestational diabietes when I was pregnant both times, while I don't have blood sugar problems at all otherwise. Also, since women didn't go to war or work out in the feilds, then childbirth was the taker of the average life of a female. An old woman was usually a woman that never had kids, one of the perpetuators of the childless witch that fed off the young kind of thing. That is why so many stories (from Snow White to Cinderella) spoke of the mother having died in childbirth, commonly promoted by the church as 'punishment' for the sin of fornication or adultery. Also the past is a male dominated one, where the birth of the offspring was tied up with ego, and the mother was more a bearer of the child, the father tended to care more about his child than the mother, particulary those who hadn't married for love but made to by arranged marriages, the main way of the early colonists. Kids weren't really loved and cherished by such men either, they were just a free work force, and the daughters could fetch better status if they marry up.
That link was vewy vewy intwesting and I am still checkin it out.
But so far the link has shown that until the 1940s, when childbrith went to hospitals, and even then it still took awhile for medicine to catch up to what we now have as for pregnant women and babies.
That link was vewy vewy intwesting and I am still checkin it out.
But so far the link has shown that until the 1940s, when childbrith went to hospitals, and even then it still took awhile for medicine to catch up to what we now have as for pregnant women and babies.