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10-22-2013, 02:20 PM
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Skeleton of Mother and Baby, Both Died During Pregnancy
This picture shows the remains of a mother and her child who both died while she was pregnant.
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10-22-2013, 03:10 PM
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Re: Skeleton of Mother and Baby, Both Died During Pregnancy
Ancient skeletons  Æbelholt Abbey, Denmark http://en.kulturklik.dk/museums-and-...ry-museum.aspx http://pikdit.com/i/woman-and-child-...abbey-denmark/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86belholt_Abbey |
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10-22-2013, 06:22 PM
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Re: Skeleton of Mother and Baby, Both Died During Pregnancy
This looks pretty late term given the size of the child or perhaps the child was stillborn (and the also mother died) and both were interred together, baby placed on mother's womb? The position and size of the child looks a bit odd and incidentally the child in this position would have been a breech...
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10-22-2013, 07:18 PM
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Re: Skeleton of Mother and Baby, Both Died During Pregnancy
Looking at the above links the woman would have been alive during the middle ages. I would imagine that breach births had fairly low survival rates for both mother and baby in those days, so I guess that this would have been possible.
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10-23-2013, 12:32 AM
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Re: Skeleton of Mother and Baby, Both Died During Pregnancy
Not much on here makes me sad, but for some reason this did. Those little baby arms/hands...  |
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12-09-2013, 02:42 PM
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Re: Skeleton of Mother and Baby, Both Died During Pregnancy
In Mexica (Aztec) society, this was the only way for a woman to gain access to heaven, any other way would be eternity in a dismal humid purgatory, i.e. they would be in the lowlands for all time.
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