MTZ@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 7 hours agoRough time to be a woman. ☕lemmy.worldimagemessage-square41fedilinkarrow-up1568
arrow-up1568imageRough time to be a woman. ☕lemmy.worldMTZ@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 7 hours agomessage-square41fedilink
minus-squaregibmiser@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up81·6 hours agoHaving 4 babies in 1 year in the 1800s had to be quite the achievement
minus-squareVelma@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-22 hours agoI’ve never met anyone who had a miscarriage or stillborn and still described the experience as having a baby in this way.
minus-squareTaleya@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 hour agoHow many people from the 1800’s do you know
minus-squareVelma@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 hour agoSome women from the 1800s would have described having a miscarriage as a blessing, not a baby. https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/11/miscarriage-19th-century-women-loss-book.html
minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 hour agoPersonally, or by reputation?
minus-squareTanis Nikana@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up64·6 hours agoNot impossible though. Two in January, two in November.
minus-squareVictor@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up46·6 hours agoOr just the four of them together in one go I guess.
minus-squareVictor@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·56 minutes agoNow we’re going into bitch territory. 🐕
minus-squarehomes@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up35·6 hours agoRegardless of which way it happened, I’d be crying a lot, especially if it happened in the 1800s.
minus-squaredb2@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 hours agoIn the 1800s you’d be counting yourself lucky you survived it.
minus-squareSatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 hours agoFood was much cheaper and you were allowed to put them to work right away. Plus most of them died before five anyways.
minus-squarehomes@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·edit-23 hours agoAh, yes, the 1800s… When it was perfectly legal to put newborn babies to work in the coal-mining sweat shops of South London Very Tiny Tim: Please, Sir, may I have some WHAAAAA! WHAAAA! WHAAAAA!
minus-squareVelma@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 hours agoKids as young as 4 years old would be put to work, so it’s not that far off really.
minus-squareSatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 hours agoNot just legal but encouraged.
minus-squareSatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 hour agoI think it reminds them of the womb.
minus-squarehomes@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-23 hours agoEncouraged by all the starvation, poverty, and pestilence
minus-squareTheTechnician27@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·edit-26 hours agoOr triplets in January and one in November, or one in January and triplets in November (but it was definitely these two months). She’s crazy – capable of anything.
minus-squareEy ich frag doch nur@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·6 hours agoOnly if they survive until birth.
Having 4 babies in 1 year in the 1800s had to be quite the achievement
Never said they came to term
I’ve never met anyone who had a miscarriage or stillborn and still described the experience as having a baby in this way.
How many people from the 1800’s do you know
Some women from the 1800s would have described having a miscarriage as a blessing, not a baby.
https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/11/miscarriage-19th-century-women-loss-book.html
Personally, or by reputation?
Not impossible though. Two in January, two in November.
Or just the four of them together in one go I guess.
Or 6 at once but 2 didn’t make it
Now we’re going into bitch territory. 🐕
Regardless of which way it happened, I’d be crying a lot, especially if it happened in the 1800s.
In the 1800s you’d be counting yourself lucky you survived it.
Food was much cheaper and you were allowed to put them to work right away.
Plus most of them died before five anyways.
Ah, yes, the 1800s… When it was perfectly legal to put newborn babies to work in the coal-mining sweat shops of South London
Very Tiny Tim: Please, Sir, may I have some WHAAAAA! WHAAAA! WHAAAAA!
Kids as young as 4 years old would be put to work, so it’s not that far off really.
Not just legal but encouraged.
They yearn for the mines after all
I think it reminds them of the womb.
Encouraged by all the starvation, poverty, and pestilence
Or triplets in January and one in November, or one in January and triplets in November (but it was definitely these two months). She’s crazy – capable of anything.
Irish quadruplets?
Only if they survive until birth.