My husband’s wages have been as high as £5 a week and as low as 7s. in
the winter, as they cannot work either in the rain, frost, or snow.
So it means saving in summer to tide over winter. My hardest time of
child-bearing was when my last one was born, it being the sixth child,
all living. My husband had been out of work for eighteen weeks when
there was such depression. I had to go out to clean and paper when I
was six months pregnant, and I am suffering with varicose veins to-day
as the result.
In reference to myself during pregnancy and confinements, I suffered
mostly with morning sickness, swollen, aching legs, and a dragging at
the left side, which has always resulted in the after-birth growing to
my side, and has brought on a flooding before it could be removed, but
in all my confinements I have had a qualified doctor, or I am afraid my
life would have been lost.
_Wages 7s. to £5; six children._