Or triplets in January and one in November, or one in January and triplets in November (but it was definitely these two months). She’s crazy – capable of anything.
I know two people who had full term still born babies. They both absolutely refer to them as babies and as having given birth. I’m only 6 months pregnant and if I lost the pregnancy at this point I would say I lost my son. He’s very real and alive to me, he moves and touches me many times an hour, already keeps me up every night. He’s a real dude in there.
That said, I’ve had two miscarriages and consider those lost pregnancies, not lost children. I’ve seen people online say things like “mother of 4, 2 in heaven” though.
Having something die inside you can fuck you up forever.
That’s a fair point. I should’ve kept my comment at miscarriages and not included stillbirths. I, too, have had miscarriages so I understand how it can fuck you up.
Having 4 babies in 1 year in the 1800s had to be quite the achievement
Not impossible though. Two in January, two in November.
Or just the four of them together in one go I guess.
Regardless of which way it happened, I’d be crying a lot, especially if it happened in the 1800s.
In the 1800s you’d be counting yourself lucky you survived it.
Food was much cheaper and you were allowed to put them to work right away.
Plus most of them died before five anyways.
Ah, yes, the 1800s… When it was perfectly legal to put newborn babies to work in the coal-mining sweat shops of South London
Very Tiny Tim: Please, Sir, may I have some WHAAAAA! WHAAAA! WHAAAAA!
Kids as young as 4 years old would be put to work, so it’s not that far off really.
Not just legal but encouraged.
Encouraged by all the starvation, poverty, and pestilence
They yearn for the mines after all
I think it reminds them of the womb.
Or 6 at once but 2 didn’t make it
Or octuplets born on new year’s eve so half were in one year and half were in the next.
Now we’re going into bitch territory. 🐕
Or triplets in January and one in November, or one in January and triplets in November (but it was definitely these two months). She’s crazy – capable of anything.
Heck, you could even have 2,5 and then 1,5. Just that the chance of long term survival for them would be way less.
insert SM64 menu music as pannenkoek talks about half-childbirths
I knew a set of quads in school. They were all really cool.
Nice! Identical or fraternal?
Well, i didn’t examine their DNA lol but they all presented the same gender and were visually similar to each other.
Sounds like identical then I guess. Pretty wild!
Irish quadruplets?
Never said they came to term
I’ve never met anyone who had a miscarriage and still described the experience as having a baby in this way.
I know two people who had full term still born babies. They both absolutely refer to them as babies and as having given birth. I’m only 6 months pregnant and if I lost the pregnancy at this point I would say I lost my son. He’s very real and alive to me, he moves and touches me many times an hour, already keeps me up every night. He’s a real dude in there.
That said, I’ve had two miscarriages and consider those lost pregnancies, not lost children. I’ve seen people online say things like “mother of 4, 2 in heaven” though.
Having something die inside you can fuck you up forever.
That’s a fair point. I should’ve kept my comment at miscarriages and not included stillbirths. I, too, have had miscarriages so I understand how it can fuck you up.
I still doubt that’s what the OP meant though.
How many people from the 1800’s do you know
Some women from the 1800s would have described having a miscarriage as a blessing, not a baby.
https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/11/miscarriage-19th-century-women-loss-book.html
Personally, or by reputation?
Gladys and Hugo. 2. They dead tho. Gladys will live forever in my heart because she was my favorite organist growing up.
Only if they survive until birth.