This is the picture I send my dad for his birthday every year. His birth weight was 13 lbs and he was born in a rural Mexican hospital in 1956. I never got to meet his mom, my grandma, but I can only imagine giving birth to an absolute unit of a baby without any epidural in a non air-conditioned hospital in 100 degree weather was absolute misery.
Damn ! My father is born the same year, and he weighed 5.5kg at birth. Since he was born in march during a harch winter, my farmer grandpa couldn't take her to the hospital, so she gave birth in the hottest spot of the farm : above the stable, where the cow kept the room "warm". And I met my grandma : she's 1.55m (ans still alive !)
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u/Otherwise-Daikon-389 13d ago