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.