Breast milk and mortar and pestles have existed for a long time too to make food into a mush.
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How would they get a mortar and pestle? They didn't have stores back then.
Back then nature was still intact, so they could just pick them from a mortar and pestle tree.
Isn't that a violation of labor law?
They're not particularly complicated. you basically need a sturdy bowl and a stick to crush and grind stuff in said bowl.
Yeah, and even if they got one... they just like going up breast milk???
must of
Must have, or must’ve. Of is a preposition, not a verb.
He must of not dun known bout no good grammer. Kell C Grammer! Talkin' bout my boy Fraiser!
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Titties.
Ah, the origin of kissing
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Jokes aside, there have been cultures where women went into labor and would deliver by themselves away from the tribe. It's been a while since I read about it, but iirc if she returned without the newborn is was either unacknowledged or at minimum just accepted as her decision. Imagine having a still birth or a child with extreme physical deficiencies prior to modern medicine. I do remember thinking when I read it that it surely resulted in women not returning, too, because childbirth can be risky even with a team of professionals.
Also wet nurses have been a thing, and the practices with that range from understandable to horrific - think wives of slave owners not wanting to breast feed, so they force a slave that's given birth recently take on the duty, usually as a priority over their own child. Course, there's always been women who couldn't produce milk, so it has been done altruistically, too
That one always confused me. They probably aren't feeding and housing the slave that's feeding their baby well. Maybe I am missinformed but i'd imagine that provided less healthy milk. Not to mention the stress associated with having to feed someone else's baby.
The only reference I have to go on off the top of my head there is Django Unchained where a difference was noted for those working in the house vs fields. I imagine it was used as emotional manipulation to bribe them with better living conditions in some cases, though
If the post is not a joke, your grammar definitely is
Kids died a lot more back in the days
Women breastfed for far longer, up to 6 years, and they still do in some parts of the world.
If you mean those jars of mushed up fruit, they used mushed up fruit.
If you mean formula, then they either had a wet nurse who could assist, or the baby would die.
Infant mortality has decreased significantly in the modern age, and it’s the main reason average life expectancy has gone up so much.
True /s
How high are you rn?
That's my secret
I'm never sober
If you're never sober, then you're never high, either. Tolerance is a bitch.
Well no because I switch drugs once in a while
Got to stay fresh when I'm doing business critical work
That only works for awhile. Eventually you run out of dopamine and then nothing works, even if you haven't touched it in years. Ask me how I know.