I suffered very much in pregnancy, was violently sick quite a dozen
times a day every day for the first six months, with occasional
fainting attacks. I was better towards the end, but had bad nights, so
had to rest a lot in the day. The baby was born all right, and I got
on well, but was weak. When she was twelve months old (I nursed her
myself) I had a goitre in my neck, which lasted two years. At one time
I was very ill in hospital seven weeks, and away in country six. The
doctor said it was weakness following pregnancy that caused it. I was
not able to do my home duties, and if I had been a woman who had to go
out to work--well, I could not have done so for nearly all the three
years. My husband did not want any more children, as I suffered so much
with the first. He is eleven years now, and I am very well.
_Wages 30s.; one child._