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Comments on: Boring Day https://whynow.dumka.us/2014/09/08/boring-day/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Wed, 10 Sep 2014 22:11:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2014/09/08/boring-day/comment-page-1/#comment-70739 Wed, 10 Sep 2014 22:11:00 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=33800#comment-70739 In reply to ellroon.

Essentially the 1 in 6 were near stillborn as they didn’t live a month. Miscarriages are still common. My maternal grandfather was one of 18, no twins, and the same two parents over essentially the same 20 year interval. After the last child was born, my great grandparents started living apart in different children’s houses. I met my great grandmother when I was a child while she was staying at my grandparents’ house. She didn’t like small children much, which is understandable.

]]> By: ellroon https://whynow.dumka.us/2014/09/08/boring-day/comment-page-1/#comment-70736 Wed, 10 Sep 2014 20:41:45 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=33800#comment-70736 Don’t forget that miscarriages are common and the gaps between children could reflect either a miscarriage or a stillborn. Often the poor woman was continually pregnant and either gave birth, lost the baby, or died herself (sometimes all three). My grandmother was born to the third wife of a missionary who had a rack of children. The old goat….

Thank god for birth control pills and modern medicine.

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