did they have an alternative to maxi pads or did they just free bleed-
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You didn’t have that many.
Onset of menstruation was later. Let’s say, 16 or 18 even. Then you’d then get married and start having sex right after that, and then immediately get pregnant.
No periods while pregnant. No periods while mostly breastfeeding.
In earlier times, breastfeeding went on much longer. When I had my kids more than 25 years ago, I read that the worldwide median age of weaning at that time was around age 5. In other words, for every developed world woman who immediately switched to bottle feeding, there probably was a kid somewhere else in the world who was still getting snacks from mom as a ten or twelve year old. I could imagine in our not-too-distant past, most kids might have had some amount of breastmilk up until considered an adult.
You do that much breastfeeding? It’s not like when you have one kid, start that kid on some solids, and breastfeed less, and your periods return. It probably was closer to every two or three years, your periods might return. Ok, one or two periods, and boom! You’re pregnant again.
And finally, you die in childbirth. You might have menstruated a dozen times in your entire life.
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