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In reply to the discussion: 'This is one reason why, unlike earlier centuries, we don't have cemeteries full of children.' [View all]greatauntoftriplets
(175,777 posts)19. I can't imagine having that many children.
It's so hard on the woman, especially when most births were at home. My grandmother died of a kidney infection after a stillbirth when my mother was just two. She also was in her early 40s at the time.
So sad.
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swag
Jan 2022
OP
Funny little secret: Mother Nature has ways of ambushing us. I was raised to believe my brain...
Hekate
Jan 2022
#31
My mother had either four or five siblings that we know of who died.
greatauntoftriplets
Jan 2022
#2
My grandmother lost three of her 19 children, today she has 1,000+ direct descendants.
L. Coyote
Jan 2022
#11
Same with my Dad. 24 kids, only 14 made it to adulthood. (4 died in a fire)
Midnight Writer
Jan 2022
#23
My grandmother took them out to the cemetery and buried them herself, under cover of night.
Midnight Writer
Jan 2022
#26
Sanitation, nutrition, and antibiotics are other big reasons for reduced childhood mortality
Klaralven
Jan 2022
#9