@@netto6681 I’d have to say to that yikes. When you have like a 50% survival rate darn it and that was the role I wouldn’t wanted to be a woman back then for sure.
Many women were likely very malnourished. That is when they give birth to underweight malnourished children, that do look like little adults. Look up pictures or videos on malnourished newborns. Too week to even cry. They just sleep, or just lay there. It takes a very dedicated mother to help them thrive.
I've read somewhere that, procreation being the main point of a marriage, couples were expected to conceive _before_ they were allowed to marry, to see if they could. It may have been rare and only practiced among the common folk in the country, though.
Possibly 🤔 I know a lot of my women ancestors were pregnant before getting married based on their marriage date and the date their baby was born (not sure if it's because of that, it was a rushed/forced marriage because they got pregnant out of wedlock, our ancestors weren't as sexually repressed as a lot of people think, or something else though) and another really common thing within my family tree was sadly of course child brides (lost count how many of my women ancestors were married off when they were between 11 and 15 to a much older adult man and shortly after getting married had a child while they were still children themselves) history is sad 😕
Goodness, gracious, we sure should be grateful my great great grandmothers still practiced many of these things I would like him to say something on the heated mustard, honey plasters. That was brutal.
Agree, but modern is a relative term. Medicine is still in its infancy, especially regarding mental health. In a few hundred years, people will look back on us in disbelief. I wish I got to live long enough to see a Dyson sphere or something similar, at least a category higher in civilisation. Still grateful for the limited medicines and technologies we have though.
Absolutely. We have so much, our lives have been made so much easier. But we also have our own issues as a modern society, much work to still be done. Thankfully, we can do this work without having to strap our infants to a wooden board and tie them to a tree 😅
It is crazy. Might not have seen another option. It was a very different environment back then. No system to fall back on. Where was a loving grandmother, when you needed one ...
Many had no other choice And they were quite young mothers so they had little sense I think the community WAS less involved becuz of the great number of babies about. Otherwise they would have had a system in place to help mothers during their daily tasks, beyond a grandma. Grandmas were still very busy with their own families. If u had a baby at 14 or 15 even ur 2nd daughter having a baby would mean u were just early 30s! Very fertile still.
@@angelathorpe8512no one died of old age at 37. Human lifespans were identical back then to how they are now. The only difference is that we can live our full natural lifespans while people back then often died younger of disease, malnutrition, war or just how hard that life was on the body
I think at the time babies were considered a woman thing and the father doesn't get involved until the child is a bit older. So they didn't properly know what a baby's body looked like. Proper human proportions wouldn't be known until like centuries later.
@@lianilianli My great grandfather was a survivor in a family of nine children around the time of the civil war. He, his brother and sister lived but the other six died of disease before the age of five. Their graves were marked with six little stones which are still there today.
Lol this comment in funny because my mother is one of 13 children, only one of her siblings died. My Grandmother last pregnancy was twins, one of the twins passed away at 6 months of age. My father is one os 6 children. I am one of 7 😓😁
As a uncle who baby-sat many times I have seen that children are alarmingly trying to kill themselves all the time! They only reach an almost ok level of self preservation about 6yo... just thinking about raising kids before modern medicine gives me anxiety
@@sharinettekpereznunez6564yeaaaaah sorry I didn’t mean specifically this, I meant back in the day, whether it was Europe, Asia, Africa, it was ALL hard. All of us are descendants of crazy hard times.
@@olmostgudinaf8100Employers allows employees to invest a portion of their paycheck tax-deferred for retirement. Many employers match your contribution. Also its more-so of an anglo-sphere thing than American. Canada, Australia, and the UK have something similar.
I wish I could remember the name of it but making babies look old was actually intentional don't remember why (pretty sure this channel made a video talking about it) 🤔
I am so, so grateful for modern medicine and vaccines that allow the vast majority of modern babies to survive and thrive. My son is currently sick and I was just thinking about how a simple sinus infection or case of strep would’ve killed him back then, when today you simply take a few pills and move on. We are so privileged to have the medical care and resources we have. So many people in the world still have to bury their babies because a lack of basic health care and vaccines.
Actually there were very advanced systems of medicine in certain countries/cultures, such as Ayurvedic medicine in India, Tibetan medicine in the Himalayan regions, Chinese medicine, and so forth.
@@grannyannie2948I saw a German movie called „Die Hebamme“ (the midwife) and it was a strict rule from the Catholic Church to baptize the children inside the women during a difficult labor with a syringe of holy water. 😅 Some of the women died from the infection, because the water wasn’t fresh.
@@JasminMernica That sounds horrendous. I don't understand the theology behind it either as a baby had to be birthed and breathe to be baptized, was my understanding. Another horrible rabbit hole is the choices sometimes made between the life of the mother or the child during the Middle Ages.
@@grannyannie2948The mindset of the people back then was, if the baby isn’t baptized and passes away, it will go to hell. They used this method, if it was a breach birth. It wasn’t always possible to get the baby out alive or (like in the movie) turn it into the right direction. The movie was placed in the Bavarian province during 1860, but the procedure from the midwife was older than that. It was a reminder for me, that not everything was good back then and the church or state shouldn’t mingle with women’s rights to her body.
@JasminMernica I'm Australian and whilst I have been reading mediaeval history, since I was a child. I can't claim I know about a great deal about practices in Germany in 1860. Neither do I know the accuracy of a movie I've never seen. For a start, from a mediaeval theological perspective a stillborn baby, or indeed any unbaptised baby, does not go to hell. They go to purgatory. The length of time they spend in purgatory depends on the amount of prayers they receive. For example wealthy parents might pay an entire monestry to pray for decades. This is ultimately the cause of the reformation. You need to be very careful thinking modern historical drama is accurate. I find it is not. Instead it pushes political agendas, ussually feminism or multiculturalism or both. I suspect this is an example of the former. What the movie is saying about women's autonomy is probably unrealistic, Christian western women have always had rights, it's just that today they've gone too far.
Swaddling the baby (closely not tightly) is believed to soothe the baby by reminding them of the closeness of the mother's womb. I swaddled my baby, it's not as weird as it looks in those paintings.😊
Tons of babies are swaddled now, for sleeping or comfort. The difference is, now it isn't entirely an around-the-clock thing like it was then. And we swaddle now with just one big swaddling blanket, not lots of cloth strips.
0:50 there where also many days on which sex was not allowed. However, scientists calculated that with the amount of people alive back then, the amount of child mortality's, miscarige's, etc the human race would already have gone extinct. So we know for a fact that people ignored these commandments
@@kloothommel6569 Well in many countries including US more people die than are born. I don't know any 20 year olds marrying and having babies. So we may go extinct after all.
I wish modern day people would stop thinking that our ancestors didn't have any emotions or at least not as much as us and realize that people have always been the same (felt heartbreak, sadness, happiness, love, had likes, dislikes, etc) the only thing that changes is our style, societal norms, laws, advancements, and time 🤷🏻♀️ Sure they definitely experienced loss more then modern people and were more in tune with and accepting of death but just because of that doesn't mean they barely if at all experienced the feelings that go along with it and no matter how many times you experience loss it's still loss and still hurts (i've lost a lot of loved ones and I can promise you it doesn't do a damn thing to lessen my pain if I lose again 😕). You can go back even way further in time (Rome, Ancient Egypt, etc) and see these emotions in people (read a letter the other day from a Roman Solider who was upset that his family wasn't writing to him while he was away, read and saw so many sweet and heartbreaking full of love grave epitaphs Romans made for their beloved animals who passed away showing that they felt the same way we do about our furbabies, they found the remains of two Chinese people who were killed in some mudslide 4000 years ago one was a child and one was an adult/teenager and the older one was trying to protect the kid, they found the remains of parents and their children together and the parents were holding them and/or trying to protect them from the disaster at Pompeii, they found the remains of a Roman mother and her son buried together her son sadly passed away first at a young age and the mother had a ring made of her son's image it was actually found on her finger, i've read poems that came from Ancient Egyptians talking about love loss happiness life all of which still resonates today, on a lighter note they found graffiti from Romans and the jokes they told are still funny one's even about two guys who were good friends and wanted history to remember their friendship basically they're things you'd still see people today scribbling on places, etc). People are people ❤️ Edit: You can even see those emotions in ancient animals- there's been fossils found of dinosaurs sitting on and trying to protect their eggs from the disaster that killed them. Feelings are universal ☺️
A big part of the problem with these ignorant takes on history derive from the fact that the only records we have of day-to-day life -- WRITTEN records, in other words -- derive only from the aristocracy. The VAST majority of people did NOT live like this, and their survival rates were much greater than the "privileged" classes' records would indicate. If I were a child-bearing-age woman in the Middle Ages, I would MUCH prefer to be a serf than nobility.
My mom had it as well and she was born in the 60s too. She had to have several spinal taps. She believes that suffers from scoliosis today due to her procedures.
I just wanted to thank you……until I found your channel I was never interested in medieval history, however the way you put across the facts has captivated me!! So 🙏 thank you.
The fact that babies wore hats called "bigguns" on their large heads is hilarious. Yes, I'm sure I misspelled the word, but it's just funny like that!😂😂😂
Please remember that just because nobels and royals did something doesnt mean commoners did. They absolutely ignored the rules of sex just as people did in the 20s 50s 60s and today. Societal norms doesnt mean it's what happened behind closed doors.
if you think about it it’s kind of sweet that the midwives told the parents that the baby had one breath so at least they could live peacefully knowing that it had a proper burial and baptism (even if it wasent true and The baby never had life)
Modern swaddling is done a lot looser than it was back then. Back then it was basically like putting a corset on the poor little thing, while now it’s more like wrapping them up
Lol, did you really cry that much? Not trying to sound heartless but calm down on those emotions a bit. They sacrificed themselves and went through hell so we can be here. Besides humans are part of nature anyway, so obviously before we had the advancements we have now things were quite a bit brutal.
@@Liveforchristnofear Um? Sacrificed themselves? They were babies lmao, they deserved to grow up and have a life and I am sad for them. They may be dead and gone now but they are still worthy of love.
Well done. You’d be surprised how many of these practices still survive today. I had great great grandmothers who also had many of these beliefs. I will very much look forward to any other content that you put out upon the subject.
Yea unfortunately, most didn't live long enough to be grandparents. Today a lot of grandparents seem to be more and more involved caring for young kids while their parents have to work
One story that sticks in my mind is the child of Jeanne d’Albret, Queen of Navarre The child died of its injuries after its nurse threw him out of window for her boyfriend to catch. He failed to do so. 😮
I don't understand and will never understand why people speak the way they do about the precious future of the human race as if they weren't once a baby themselves. Makes no sense.
@@knifechief I mean, maybe they considered it vain? There were sooo many goofy ideas that came up during that time. I mean, this was right after the dark ages. So, society did regress quite a bit. Kinda like now w folks thinking the moon landing was staged and the earth is flat and other nonsense like that. lol I guess we can hope for another renaissance.
Enid, Oklahoma, 11 months old: My weird 40-45 year-old babysitter gave me the measles. Other north of 40: Bathed in ice was to cool down my 105° fever.
I’ve had four babies but only managed to maintain a milk supply with my eldest for about 10 weeks max. The rest of the time I’ve had to use formula. I have pals who’ve breastfed their baby up to almost year. I know without a shadow of a doubt I’d have no surviving babies if I lived in medieval times. They’d have been called failure to thrive probably.
@@alanna4858 Before invention of formula babies were often nursed by other women when the mother didn't produce enough. My own grandmother nursed my mom and a little baby boy whose mother didn't have enough milk for him. She nursed him until he was old enough for baby cereal and pureed vegetables and fruits. He grew into a healthy normal child.
I think the priests just got lazy in the Middle Ages because of so much dying. And that's why they declared that babies unbaptized didn't get a Christian funeral.
The reason their was `social pressure` for women to breastfeed was so that babies wouldn`t die. They didn`t have baby formula and anti-biotics back then.
I love when people these days are against certain medical practises or even just basic infant care advice and use the excuse "they didn't have this hundreds of years ago". Do they not realise it was a miracle if any children actually survived.
They also used to do surgeries on babies without any anaesthetic , as they thought Babies felt no pain. It wasn't till sickeningly Recently that they realize babies do feel pain.
When in Malawi I saw a swaddled baby in a tree. If you go to third world countries a lot of these things are still practiced. Sad too, almost everyone my age came from a large family with one or more deceased siblings.
The pictures man that made me subscribe. They look terrifying. I know it's a stupid question, but why did they paint things like that? Dammit now you got me asking questions.
Medieval painting of babies and animals (especially dogs) are hilarious and creepy. Like, who was the dude that painted these just for the commissioner to be all, “Tis spot on! Thyne tears shall floweth, and thou shalt always cherish thee for eons!” ‘shows a mutated painting of a monster bred with a cat.’
Most animals born in the wild don't last for long either, including animal species who are not anywhere close to extinction. It's always been that way with or without human intervention, so it's not much of a shock at all that we humans still exist and if it weren't for the modern advancements at all the human population could've possibly have naturally came to-or cap out at around 1 or 2 billion. It's really only super devastating naturally occuring weather apocalypse type stuff that ever drove the human species close to extinction, not babies having a high mortality rate. Many of us wouldn't have been here if those advancements didn't come about, and life expectancy would have been lower, if that's what you mean than yes, it's impressive. But the human population would hypothetically still be thriving, there just wouldn't be as many of us.
Curious! Today, the most dangerous time are not the first few years, but begins when children are young enough to receive TikTok challenges on their phones. 🤔
Little children are most definitely innocent before our God, and if dieing in infancy, certainly return to God's presence, from whence we all came. God is a jùst God. The age of responsibility does not happen in infancy.
Human babies and cat babies have a lot in common. It's shocking that we've made it this far as a species by typically only producing one offspring at a time.
She was also absolutely miserable for pretty much her entire life and is remembered as a ruthless and cruel tyrant. She was responsible for the deaths of up to 30,000 innocent people thanks to the St Bartholomew’s Massacre she orchestrated
Who else finds the Medieval depictions of babies hilarious?
Kinda creepy...
I mean they do actually kind of look like miniature old men particularly in the beginning
Every single time. Without fail. 😂
They either look like little old men or miniature burly men
@@katofalltrades Little Gandhis or Churchills
It’s no joke coming out of the womb as a mini middle-aged man.
It's all the ale and or wine the mothers drank.
@@netto6681 I’d have to say to that yikes. When you have like a 50% survival rate darn it and that was the role I wouldn’t wanted to be a woman back then for sure.
@@keepgoing7533 yes 👍
Many women were likely very malnourished. That is when they give birth to underweight malnourished children, that do look like little adults. Look up pictures or videos on malnourished newborns. Too week to even cry. They just sleep, or just lay there. It takes a very dedicated mother to help them thrive.
YES 😂😂
It was so difficult to raise a baby in that environment. It is understandable how some women would go mad with grief
I've read somewhere that, procreation being the main point of a marriage, couples were expected to conceive _before_ they were allowed to marry, to see if they could.
It may have been rare and only practiced among the common folk in the country, though.
Possibly 🤔 I know a lot of my women ancestors were pregnant before getting married based on their marriage date and the date their baby was born (not sure if it's because of that, it was a rushed/forced marriage because they got pregnant out of wedlock, our ancestors weren't as sexually repressed as a lot of people think, or something else though) and another really common thing within my family tree was sadly of course child brides (lost count how many of my women ancestors were married off when they were between 11 and 15 to a much older adult man and shortly after getting married had a child while they were still children themselves) history is sad 😕
Yes ma’am, can you imagine the grief of those women went through? They love each child like every mother does.
Life was hard for everyone back then, women were not special in that regard.
@@canadachandler7521 Did they say only women had it hard because of being special in this regard? No, no they didn’t.
Good video i have a 10 month old who im gonna show this to so he knows how well he has it haha
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He should be grateful! 😂
@@EL-ISS thats what I'm sayin
😂😂😂
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I'm so grateful that I was born in the modern era
Goodness, gracious, we sure should be grateful my great great grandmothers still practiced many of these things I would like him to say something on the heated mustard, honey plasters. That was brutal.
Reincarnation is real
@@Ad-zk8nz cite evidence of your claim
Agree, but modern is a relative term. Medicine is still in its infancy, especially regarding mental health. In a few hundred years, people will look back on us in disbelief. I wish I got to live long enough to see a Dyson sphere or something similar, at least a category higher in civilisation. Still grateful for the limited medicines and technologies we have though.
Absolutely. We have so much, our lives have been made so much easier. But we also have our own issues as a modern society, much work to still be done. Thankfully, we can do this work without having to strap our infants to a wooden board and tie them to a tree 😅
Entrusting an infant to a THREE YEAR OLD is crazy
It is crazy. Might not have seen another option.
It was a very different environment back then.
No system to fall back on.
Where was a loving grandmother, when you needed one ...
Many had no other choice
And they were quite young mothers so they had little sense
I think the community WAS less involved becuz of the great number of babies about. Otherwise they would have had a system in place to help mothers during their daily tasks, beyond a grandma. Grandmas were still very busy with their own families. If u had a baby at 14 or 15 even ur 2nd daughter having a baby would mean u were just early 30s! Very fertile still.
Since ppl lived about 37 years, three was probably a lot more reliable than our little knuckle heads 😅
@@angelathorpe8512no, 3 year old were still 3 year olds. And a low life expectancy didn’t mean people were middle aged at 20 or adults at 10.
@@angelathorpe8512no one died of old age at 37. Human lifespans were identical back then to how they are now. The only difference is that we can live our full natural lifespans while people back then often died younger of disease, malnutrition, war or just how hard that life was on the body
Medieval baby paintings are ALWAYS HILARIOUS
3:40 is extra nasty like wtf is that? Lol
@luigi55125 who from Whoville looking ahhh
You should see the cat
I think at the time babies were considered a woman thing and the father doesn't get involved until the child is a bit older. So they didn't properly know what a baby's body looked like. Proper human proportions wouldn't be known until like centuries later.
😂😂😂😂
we are all here because our ancestors were probably the only surviving child out of 16 children
I am from strong stock to be fair
I definitely think and believe that.
That isnt 50 percent
@@lianilianli My great grandfather was a survivor in a family of nine children around the time of the civil war. He, his brother and sister lived but the other six died of disease before the age of five. Their graves were marked with six little stones which are still there today.
Lol this comment in funny because my mother is one of 13 children, only one of her siblings died. My Grandmother last pregnancy was twins, one of the twins passed away at 6 months of age.
My father is one os 6 children.
I am one of 7 😓😁
As a uncle who baby-sat many times I have seen that children are alarmingly trying to kill themselves all the time! They only reach an almost ok level of self preservation about 6yo... just thinking about raising kids before modern medicine gives me anxiety
😂 either that or they start fires 🔥 when you’re not looking.
Well, that's why the medievals needed more than 2 or 3 babies...
Yeah they put everything in their mouths. 😂😭
Two more years to go
A lot died you had to have a litter
We are all descended from babies who lives through this. Crazy.
That was mostly on Europe, so no
@@sharinettekpereznunez6564yeaaaaah sorry I didn’t mean specifically this, I meant back in the day, whether it was Europe, Asia, Africa, it was ALL hard. All of us are descendants of crazy hard times.
@@sharinettekpereznunez6564wait till you learn about the rest of the world
Exactly true.
Thanks baby ancestors
... not dying before baptism was always a good idea.... 😂😂😂😂😂
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It's amazing to me that everything through history and all the Death that we're here by a miracle
Yes we're all here today because our ancestors made it through all the catastrophes that were thrown at them
These rules only applied to small populations. The rest of the world in Africa Asia and Polynesia did not confirm to this
It’s crazy to think that our ancestors were the lucky ones out of humanity. How many times our family line could’ve ended.
@Xixbalba I know each one of us on this planet are only here because of them > it's incredible 💓
I'm here watching this on a train, it is bizzare
Some of these babies look like they might have whatever the medieval equivalent of a 401k is.
Some of us have no idea what the modern version of 401k is. Something American?
@@olmostgudinaf8100Employers allows employees to invest a portion of their paycheck tax-deferred for retirement. Many employers match your contribution. Also its more-so of an anglo-sphere thing than American. Canada, Australia, and the UK have something similar.
I wish I could remember the name of it but making babies look old was actually intentional don't remember why (pretty sure this channel made a video talking about it) 🤔
@iTsEfFiNsTePhh very underweight malnourished babies look like ancient very old folks, until they actually gain normal weight, and baby fat.
@@olmostgudinaf8100it’s a savings account where your employer matches your deposits (up to a certain amount)
I am so, so grateful for modern medicine and vaccines that allow the vast majority of modern babies to survive and thrive. My son is currently sick and I was just thinking about how a simple sinus infection or case of strep would’ve killed him back then, when today you simply take a few pills and move on. We are so privileged to have the medical care and resources we have. So many people in the world still have to bury their babies because a lack of basic health care and vaccines.
Actually there were very advanced systems of medicine in certain countries/cultures, such as Ayurvedic medicine in India, Tibetan medicine in the Himalayan regions, Chinese medicine, and so forth.
Same. I’m pregnant right now and holy cow am I grateful for modern medicine
Fr, very grateful, but heartbreaking for those who still lack in our modern world
Try talking to large communities of people who drink raw milk, and you'll start to see the layers of lies chipping away.
Nothing to do with vaccines, modern day sanitation and plumbing are the reasons. 🙄
Yes, life expectancy went up dramatically if you survived childhood, unless you were a women because pregnancy could also be a death sentence.
Not so much pregnancy as infection after birth.
@@grannyannie2948I saw a German movie called „Die Hebamme“ (the midwife) and it was a strict rule from the Catholic Church to baptize the children inside the women during a difficult labor with a syringe of holy water. 😅 Some of the women died from the infection, because the water wasn’t fresh.
@@JasminMernica That sounds horrendous. I don't understand the theology behind it either as a baby had to be birthed and breathe to be baptized, was my understanding. Another horrible rabbit hole is the choices sometimes made between the life of the mother or the child during the Middle Ages.
@@grannyannie2948The mindset of the people back then was, if the baby isn’t baptized and passes away, it will go to hell. They used this method, if it was a breach birth. It wasn’t always possible to get the baby out alive or (like in the movie) turn it into the right direction. The movie was placed in the Bavarian province during 1860, but the procedure from the midwife was older than that. It was a reminder for me, that not everything was good back then and the church or state shouldn’t mingle with women’s rights to her body.
@JasminMernica I'm Australian and whilst I have been reading mediaeval history, since I was a child. I can't claim I know about a great deal about practices in Germany in 1860. Neither do I know the accuracy of a movie I've never seen.
For a start, from a mediaeval theological perspective a stillborn baby, or indeed any unbaptised baby, does not go to hell. They go to purgatory. The length of time they spend in purgatory depends on the amount of prayers they receive. For example wealthy parents might pay an entire monestry to pray for decades. This is ultimately the cause of the reformation.
You need to be very careful thinking modern historical drama is accurate. I find it is not. Instead it pushes political agendas, ussually feminism or multiculturalism or both. I suspect this is an example of the former. What the movie is saying about women's autonomy is probably unrealistic, Christian western women have always had rights, it's just that today they've gone too far.
Swaddling the baby (closely not tightly) is believed to soothe the baby by reminding them of the closeness of the mother's womb. I swaddled my baby, it's not as weird as it looks in those paintings.😊
I never swaddled any of mine, I wanted them to be able to move. Just warm clothes, according to your weather.
I was swaddled. Also was taught to swaddling in CNA class.
Years ago I read a book about the former Soviet Union. It was a surprise to me to learn that many babies were swaddled back then.
Tons of babies are swaddled now, for sleeping or comfort. The difference is, now it isn't entirely an around-the-clock thing like it was then. And we swaddle now with just one big swaddling blanket, not lots of cloth strips.
@@franceskronenwett3539the baby was swaddled only for nap and feeding time.
Considering that all my ancestors were peasants, I'm kind of lucky to be here. What were chances that my ancestors could survive till parenting age
2:41 cant tell if they are 8 months or 48 years old, never seen this duality 😂
tough times in those days 🤭
0:50 there where also many days on which sex was not allowed. However, scientists calculated that with the amount of people alive back then, the amount of child mortality's, miscarige's, etc the human race would already have gone extinct. So we know for a fact that people ignored these commandments
Oh, nice example of how controlling society could have made us extinct 😄
Extinct...what are you talking about
@@kloothommel6569 Well in many countries including US more people die than are born. I don't know any 20 year olds marrying and having babies. So we may go extinct after all.
Its a miracle we are all here thanks to the lucky ones
My people are from medieval Africa. Im sure it was different.
@@imani6547we’ll probably never as the history is either stolen or eradicated
Idk about we all
Yeah my ancestors weren't white soooooo...
@spookydeadite You never know dude. It just takes one . lol
I wish modern day people would stop thinking that our ancestors didn't have any emotions or at least not as much as us and realize that people have always been the same (felt heartbreak, sadness, happiness, love, had likes, dislikes, etc) the only thing that changes is our style, societal norms, laws, advancements, and time 🤷🏻♀️ Sure they definitely experienced loss more then modern people and were more in tune with and accepting of death but just because of that doesn't mean they barely if at all experienced the feelings that go along with it and no matter how many times you experience loss it's still loss and still hurts (i've lost a lot of loved ones and I can promise you it doesn't do a damn thing to lessen my pain if I lose again 😕). You can go back even way further in time (Rome, Ancient Egypt, etc) and see these emotions in people (read a letter the other day from a Roman Solider who was upset that his family wasn't writing to him while he was away, read and saw so many sweet and heartbreaking full of love grave epitaphs Romans made for their beloved animals who passed away showing that they felt the same way we do about our furbabies, they found the remains of two Chinese people who were killed in some mudslide 4000 years ago one was a child and one was an adult/teenager and the older one was trying to protect the kid, they found the remains of parents and their children together and the parents were holding them and/or trying to protect them from the disaster at Pompeii, they found the remains of a Roman mother and her son buried together her son sadly passed away first at a young age and the mother had a ring made of her son's image it was actually found on her finger, i've read poems that came from Ancient Egyptians talking about love loss happiness life all of which still resonates today, on a lighter note they found graffiti from Romans and the jokes they told are still funny one's even about two guys who were good friends and wanted history
to remember their friendship basically they're things you'd still see people today scribbling on places, etc).
People are people ❤️
Edit: You can even see those emotions in ancient animals- there's been fossils found of dinosaurs sitting on and trying to protect their eggs from the disaster that killed them. Feelings are universal ☺️
@@iTsEfFiNsTePhh Well said
A big part of the problem with these ignorant takes on history derive from the fact that the only records we have of day-to-day life -- WRITTEN records, in other words -- derive only from the aristocracy. The VAST majority of people did NOT live like this, and their survival rates were much greater than the "privileged" classes' records would indicate. If I were a child-bearing-age woman in the Middle Ages, I would MUCH prefer to be a serf than nobility.
Absolutely 💯 %
Wa
Why would people think ancestors didn't have emotions? That's so silly. Never heard of it
The segment about the widespread irresponsibly of leaving children with other kids, and or preteens still even applies to today though.
I had spinal meningitis when I was 2 years old in the 60s, and only antibiotics saved my life. I would have had no chance back in medieval times
I962 here; I was 5.
@@vickydelawter5317 born in 1964 myself, and only a new antibiotic called tetracycline saved my life in 1967
@@anakatrien2463 You wouldn't have survived before the 1940s. The graveyards are full of children who could have been easily saved today.
My mom had it as well and she was born in the 60s too. She had to have several spinal taps. She believes that suffers from scoliosis today due to her procedures.
I was born with my umbilical cord around my neck and even after it had gotten taken off I couldn't breathe, I dont think I wouldve made it either 😢
I just wanted to thank you……until I found your channel I was never interested in medieval history, however the way you put across the facts has captivated me!! So 🙏 thank you.
The fact that babies wore hats called "bigguns" on their large heads is hilarious. Yes, I'm sure I misspelled the word, but it's just funny like that!😂😂😂
It’s funny to me too because that’s how my son said ‘big one’ until he was 4 😂
"Gaga-eth... Googoo-eth?"
😂😂😂
Wow LOL
Lmao
Please remember that just because nobels and royals did something doesnt mean commoners did. They absolutely ignored the rules of sex just as people did in the 20s 50s 60s and today. Societal norms doesnt mean it's what happened behind closed doors.
if you think about it it’s kind of sweet that the midwives told the parents that the baby had one breath so at least they could live peacefully knowing that it had a proper burial and baptism (even if it wasent true and The baby never had life)
Baby was alive (in the womb).
You can feel the movement, it reacts... Full of life.
And suddenly... Death.
Babies are still swaddled today. This is not a technique limited to the Middle Ages
I've read it's recommended. Plenty of pics of happily-swaddled infants!
@@RGsrq For sure. My grandkids and my nephews and nieces were all swaddled when babies.
Modern swaddling is done a lot looser than it was back then. Back then it was basically like putting a corset on the poor little thing, while now it’s more like wrapping them up
yeah but we don't swaddle like they did
not in the same manner they did
We are very fortunate to have been born in this era!
and they were even more fortunate than their past too
Every other mother on earth: wears baby on back
European medieval mothers: hangs babies from trees
Pretty weird, right. Definitely not warm.
Many Native American mothers used cradle boards where they secured their infants and hung boards from tree branches
I heard native americans did that, too. I mean, why not?
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I cried so much watching this, listening to how all those babies died was heartbreaking
I thought the pig one was worst 😢
Lol, did you really cry that much? Not trying to sound heartless but calm down on those emotions a bit. They sacrificed themselves and went through hell so we can be here. Besides humans are part of nature anyway, so obviously before we had the advancements we have now things were quite a bit brutal.
@@Liveforchristnofear Um? Sacrificed themselves? They were babies lmao, they deserved to grow up and have a life and I am sad for them. They may be dead and gone now but they are still worthy of love.
@@Liveforchristnofearonly speak when your words are better than silence. Yours weren't.
Thanks!
Well done. You’d be surprised how many of these practices still survive today. I had great great grandmothers who also had many of these beliefs. I will very much look forward to any other content that you put out upon the subject.
Grandparents are world's earliest and most reliable daycare. Many sad endings could have been avoided, if grandma had been there with the little ones.
Yea unfortunately, most didn't live long enough to be grandparents. Today a lot of grandparents seem to be more and more involved caring for young kids while their parents have to work
Yeah, if Grandma was still living.
A 3 year old watching an infant. That’s so crazy 😮
One story that sticks in my mind is the child of Jeanne d’Albret, Queen of Navarre
The child died of its injuries after its nurse threw him out of window for her boyfriend to catch. He failed to do so. 😮
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Nooooo :(
I'm mildly curious about what happened to the nurse after this misdeed... But also very much don't want to know.
I'm not able to find anything about this. curious though!
@@sararuch5812 I read it in the Jean Plaidy (Eleanor Hibbert) trilogy The Italian Woman. But i have read about it elsewhere too.
So babies Ductaped to the wall goes waaay back then?
@@alangknowles ye olde duuktyype 🤣
@@alangknowles Yup 🤣
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Another great video! Also the bithdates for females ,including the nobilty, weren't often recorded.
I'd love to see you cover. Mothering Sunday, which would later become Mother's Day
Im so glad im pregnant in the 21st century and not in Medieval times 😬🙏🏼
Considering the rising mortality rate in the now non abortion states, this may be relative.
@1:07 Whooaahhh is that guys haemorrhoids violently exploding or what? No wonder that woman looks scared!
Omg I knowww lol
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 thank thing busted it WIDE OPEN!
Rest in peace to all of the babies that left too soon💔
3:43 that baby 😳😂
His heart grew three sizes that day.
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This most sounds similar to the fairly brutal conditions among us peasants when I was a child in Bangladesh. These people have my sympathies.
Oooh I saw some Hieronymus Bosch artwork.
I don't understand and will never understand why people speak the way they do about the precious future of the human race as if they weren't once a baby themselves. Makes no sense.
I’m glad I was a baby in the 1990s.
2:57 aww baby Sloth
The first 1:30 of the video just sounded like you were describing the beliefs of the baptist church today.
Not any I have ever been too, but nearly all catholic churches still believe this.
Yes!!!
Wait till you learn about other religions lol
ah I’m early great video!.
The European medieval period was such a regression in time compared to the culture and brilliance of Greek antiquity.
At least they were not as gay 🤣
It has always baffled me how hygiene was so lacking in these times when the Romans and Greeks lived with such sanitation.
@@nicolina3330 and Egyptians.
@@lucycarola yes exactly. So many civilizations had basic (if not beyond basic) hygiene. I've always wondered about that
@@knifechief I mean, maybe they considered it vain? There were sooo many goofy ideas that came up during that time. I mean, this was right after the dark ages. So, society did regress quite a bit. Kinda like now w folks thinking the moon landing was staged and the earth is flat and other nonsense like that. lol I guess we can hope for another renaissance.
Pictures of medieval babies as creepy AF
Enid, Oklahoma, 11 months old: My weird 40-45 year-old babysitter gave me the measles. Other north of 40: Bathed in ice was to cool down my 105° fever.
Oddly this was hilarious, it’s the pictures🤣😂🤣
I’ve had four babies but only managed to maintain a milk supply with my eldest for about 10 weeks max. The rest of the time I’ve had to use formula. I have pals who’ve breastfed their baby up to almost year. I know without a shadow of a doubt I’d have no surviving babies if I lived in medieval times. They’d have been called failure to thrive probably.
@@alanna4858 Before invention of formula babies were often nursed by other women when the mother didn't produce enough. My own grandmother nursed my mom and a little baby boy whose mother didn't have enough milk for him. She nursed him until he was old enough for baby cereal and pureed vegetables and fruits. He grew into a healthy normal child.
i’m so thankful for back shots
What?
It never gets old 😂😂😂 I love the “babies” that are really just shrunken 40-50 year old white guys lmao
thank goodness my ancestors some how made it through!
how to survive in the medieval era as a baby. you didn't. roll credits
Only good thing about back then , no texting or cell phones .
I think the priests just got lazy in the Middle Ages because of so much dying. And that's why they declared that babies unbaptized didn't get a Christian funeral.
For those who survived, I don't think being a baby was for life, even back then...
Being a baby might not be for life but I'll tell you what is........herpes, that crap is for life
Be thankful you were born in the 20th century.
20th or 21st
@@katexx4 both.
Swaddling isn’t *that* much work but diapering sure was!
The reason their was `social pressure` for women to breastfeed was so that babies wouldn`t die. They didn`t have baby formula and anti-biotics back then.
Breast milk is by far the best thing for babies. Formula is mostly corn syrup, and is a garbage diet for them.
This! That part bugged me, it was the only option.
Ye literally what are they supposed to do, it's the natural food for the baby
Wow how very blessed we are to be able to live in this time thank you god ❤😇
At 5:14, that lady is totally shooting that monk with her breast milk.
😂😂 💯
Ahaha , she is
Its so interesting to hear real quotes of the times!!
What's going on in the painting at 9:53? "This is our selection today, take your pick?"
I love when people these days are against certain medical practises or even just basic infant care advice and use the excuse "they didn't have this hundreds of years ago". Do they not realise it was a miracle if any children actually survived.
They also used to do surgeries on babies without any anaesthetic , as they thought Babies felt no pain.
It wasn't till sickeningly Recently that they realize babies do feel pain.
When in Malawi I saw a swaddled baby in a tree. If you go to third world countries a lot of these things are still practiced. Sad too, almost everyone my age came from a large family with one or more deceased siblings.
Bless those midwives who pretended the babies took a breath 🥺
2:44 that is an old couple in baby clothes
humanizing a pig to humiliate it before a hanging is crazy work 😭
2:32 The dreaded poo-nami. :D
The pictures man that made me subscribe. They look terrifying. I know it's a stupid question, but why did they paint things like that? Dammit now you got me asking questions.
Wild!!!!!!!!!!💯
Lucky to be conceived? Considering how hard life was like in the Middle Ages, it probably would have been best to die young or not at all.
This is all relatively, you ufckwti. The 26th century is going to claim you were miserable idiot for living in a time when cancer still exists.
his voice is so fascinating wth
The fact that negligent parents were not accountable and it was the norm is terrifying
All those babies look traumatized 😂 now I know why lol
Morphine
It must have been SO hard being a mother back then. I couldn’t handle that.
Absolute miracle humans have lived this long tbh
Medieval painting of babies and animals (especially dogs) are hilarious and creepy.
Like, who was the dude that painted these just for the commissioner to be all, “Tis spot on! Thyne tears shall floweth, and thou shalt always cherish thee for eons!” ‘shows a mutated painting of a monster bred with a cat.’
Babies really needed to watch where they were going.
Amazing we kept going..right ? with such a high mortality rate for babies.
Some experts estimate as many as 50% of all children ever born didn’t make it to adulthood. It really is impressive that we’re still here
Most animals born in the wild don't last for long either, including animal species who are not anywhere close to extinction. It's always been that way with or without human intervention, so it's not much of a shock at all that we humans still exist and if it weren't for the modern advancements at all the human population could've possibly have naturally came to-or cap out at around 1 or 2 billion. It's really only super devastating naturally occuring weather apocalypse type stuff that ever drove the human species close to extinction, not babies having a high mortality rate. Many of us wouldn't have been here if those advancements didn't come about, and life expectancy would have been lower, if that's what you mean than yes, it's impressive. But the human population would hypothetically still be thriving, there just wouldn't be as many of us.
Curious! Today, the most dangerous time are not the first few years, but begins when children are young enough to receive TikTok challenges on their phones. 🤔
Little children are most definitely innocent before our God, and if dieing in infancy, certainly return to God's presence, from whence we all came. God is a jùst God. The age of responsibility does not happen in infancy.
Thank you.
Human babies and cat babies have a lot in common. It's shocking that we've made it this far as a species by typically only producing one offspring at a time.
Wait the first picture caught me tf off guard😂😂😂😂
all of us had ancestors that survived- it is miraculous that we are here
Ok but even in the Middle Ages, how do you look at a 3 year old and be like “babysit my infant please”
I’ve no idea how I got here, but very interesting.
Sending the children off wasn’t so bad. Catherine de Medici was an orphan who was raised in convents. She ended a great figure in history.
She was also absolutely miserable for pretty much her entire life and is remembered as a ruthless and cruel tyrant. She was responsible for the deaths of up to 30,000 innocent people thanks to the St Bartholomew’s Massacre she orchestrated
👶🏻….lets try to survive until baptism🤠!
Another good documentary on this topic is called "Too Much Too Young." it goes into detail with death records from the medieval period in England.
Medieval babies look grown as hell. Babies back then were on some Benjamin Button 💩. 😂