
Giving birth in the 17th century
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How Did the Loss of a Child Affect Your Family?
I think the misconceptions are that everybody died, to know that it was am fatal, o almost all the time. In actual fact, people were very knowledgeable and quite skilled in ways that we don't really always acknowledge. We maybe under underestimated people of the past sometimes, don't we? And i think it's interesting what you said about how it affected them when when they lost the child. They would have seen it as part of life that they would lose a child. Oh, absolutely it did. Itt is clear that itt is clear it would have affected affected the whole f the whole family. So so this, this again, comes back to deside that people were
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