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Originally Posted by Jenny Hatch
A powerful personal study is to go look at your own geneological records. Go back two hundred years and just look at your own family. Baby after baby after baby being born. Mothers made it through birth number one and on to birth number sixteen, over and over again. No doctors in sight.
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Excuse me but that is ... insane.
I have charted my own family tree for between 6 to 10 generations, depending on the branch. My family comes from rural areas of Cheshire and Wales in the UK, and from the city of Liverpool (the tough parts).
The genealogical record is littered with dead babies, still births, and dead mothers - it's the same for most people.
When I walk down to the pioneer cemetary here in town in Ontario, countless examples of gravestones with a mother and child who died at the same time. I guarantee there weren't many doctors about the town. And these women - my own family in the UK and the pioneers here in Ontario - they all would have had support from other women more experienced in childbirth than yourself or most any modern woman.
This is something that is easy for most anyone here to checkout at their local cemetary.
Or go to:
http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/
Or a similar site and check out the dead mothers and children.
You are way off base with you assertation.