
Periods, fertility & childbirth: a pre-modern history
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Is There a Risk of Death in Childbirth?
Do we have any sense of how risky giving birth was at this time? It's really hard to run the numbers in any adequate way. Infant mortality is just a really sad story. Ah, infant and neonatal mortalitis,. terrible. Can be one in five ah, don't make it to sato first birthday in really bad circumstances. That's malnutrition. But yet, infant mortality's just like the saddest of sad stories.
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