• Norgur
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      88 months ago

      And almost succumb to some form of the common cold

      • @Wogi@lemmy.world
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        48 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.

          • @Wogi@lemmy.world
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            28 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.