Giving birth in the 17th century
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What Are the Common Causes of Things Going Wrong?
The rate of survival for women is much higher than people think, actually. For babies, almost a quarter of them didn't survive their first year. It used to be very fashionable em 50 years ago, to write about how sort of emotionally closed off families were. But that's just not historically representative at all.
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