What were the lives of our female ancestors like? By following the direct line of my mother's mother's mothers I'm trying to find out. What happened when they gave birth, got married, met someone they liked? How did they cook? What did they eat? What work did they do? I aim to find out.
Pregnancy and Childbirth
Of the seven women I am writing about, two died in child birth, two had nine children or more, with the miscarriages and infant deaths that went along with that, and three had three or four children. As you can imagine, the more recent ones fit into the last category. However, Brenda claims she had a miscarriage in 1946, and Wendy (me) had a Down Syndrom son who died aged nine months after heart surgery.
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