You know, it wasn’t that long ago that working women who had good food (that kept them strong) continued working up to and then after giving birth. I had an older friend who told me her grandmother walked down to the garden to get vegetables for the supper. By the edge of the garden, she gave birth. She walked back to the house with her baby wrapped in her long apron and carrying a cabbage in her other hand. Seemed incredible to me but when I asked my friend’s elderly mother, she confirmed it.
You know, it wasn’t that long ago that working women who had good food (that kept them strong) continued working up to and then after giving birth. I had an older friend who told me her grandmother walked down to the garden to get vegetables for the supper. By the edge of the garden, she gave birth. She walked back to the house with her baby wrapped in her long apron and carrying a cabbage in her other hand. Seemed incredible to me but when I asked my friend’s elderly mother, she confirmed it.