Average Life Span- American Revoution and Now

<p>Citygirlsmom: I know your daughters’ curiosity can’t have peaked yet at their relatively young ages…that’s piqued that you want there. ;)</p>

<p>I am also very interested in that whole area of average lifespan, infant and child mortality, and also maternal mortality. Two of my grandmother’s sisters died in childbirth and their family doctor told her she must not get married. She had four children, all lived, and she lived into her late 70s. (And my father weighed then pounds at birth!) One of my doctors told me the percentage for women dying in childbirth…20%, I think.</p>