Before birth control pills, how did women only have one child?

Condoms, coat hangers, real abortions, luck, prayer, horse riding accidents, etc.

Anal sex.

Midnight hayrides, Rose.

people were more active back then...

also, how did you think trampolines became so popular?

those poles and wops were always jumping up and down.

IUD's and cervical caps have been around since the early 20th century. Caps were given away free (at least in the UK) by Marie Stopes clinics.

The wealthy have never had a problem obtaining medically supervised Abortions.

Douching with original recipe cocaine infused Coca Cola.

Many of the celebrities had their tubes tied

"Rhythm method," IUDs, and condoms and abortions. And tubal ligation, as mentioned. Vasectomies, too.

Women are ovulating / fertile for 3-5 days per cycle (28 days or so).

Anal sex only.

Lots and lots of luck op

Coitus interruptus

Back before the modern age and industrial revolution women also did rely on natural and/or herbal remedies to either prevent fertility or rid themselves of unwanted pregnancies. This website mentions a few commonly used and does warn against them.

But many women did visit "medicine women" or witches/shamans to rid themselves of unwanted pregnancy or to keep them from being fertile (i.e. help make conditions unfavorable for implantation of fetus or to carry it long-term).

I wouldn't recommend it as a reliable method of birth control, but I think pulling out works more often than not.

They had more babies pulled out of them than a burning orphanage.

Face it OP, you grandma loved kinky sexy as much as Zsa Zsa and Marlena did...

Marlene supposedly always douched with vinegar after sex. Her one time lover Douglas Fairbanks Jr said when a vinaigrette salad passed by. That smell. Reminds me of Marlene. Again supposedly, during her affair with Yul Bryner, while he was staring on Broadway in The King and I her vinegar douche failed and she became pregnant and had an abortion. My own problem with this is you can roughly work out her age by the date of a photo. She was born either 1900, 1901, or 1907. Conveniently, her birth certificate and marriage certificate were destroyed in Berlin during the war. So her affair with Yul was in the 50’s (he played the king for 3yrs) she would have been somewhere in her 50’s. Not impossible I know. Just seems odd for the times.

Their husbands cheated. The wives were happy about it.

Those old whores took it in the ass like champs.

[quote]My own problem with this is you can roughly work out her age by the date of a photo. She was born either 1900, 1901, or 1907. Conveniently, her birth certificate and marriage certificate were destroyed in Berlin during the war.

How clever of her to start a World War to hide her real age.

I had to sleep with the governor.

[quote]I had to sleep with the governor.

Just the one, Blanche?

Midwives knew how to deliver a baby and they also knew how to kill it. So if you were a very poor immigrant woman and it was impossible to raise another child...

[quote]And tubal ligation, as mentioned.

Who sued their tubals?

[quote]with Yul Bryner, while he was staring on Broadway in The King

Is that all he did was stare? From all the glowing reviews I’ve heard of his performance, I assumed he sang or danced. Or, hell, at least spoke.

Sometimes a bucking mule can be a single gal’s best friend.

Like this.

No, R23, in its original run, "The King and I" was just three-hour staring contest between Anna and the king. Audiences grew restless, however, and the book and musical numbers were added later. The costumes were beautiful, though!

I just crushed on r26 so fucking hard!

Heyyy.

For a time, I worked in a Singapore whore house...and I had no children...well, except for the little prince

But once you master the 'Shanghai Squeeze' and the 'Singapore Grip', you don't have to rely on 'birth control' anyway.

Let’s see what the fans say

Fellatio.

The Italian singer?!

What’s he got to do with it?

Prolly by avoiding males, being far from the equator (guys with lower testosterone), not every mating results in a breeding. Hahaha horse riding accidents aren’t in the obgyn doomsday book but what should I know. I’m just a random science nerd with livestock Repro training hahahaha

[quote]Marlene supposedly always douched with vinegar after sex.

No wonder her daughter was a sourpuss.

By jumping up and down after having sex, OP.

That makes all the sperm leak out.

^ Save us from lesbian P.E. teachers!

Wow, from the responses it sounds like a lot of drama. Constant worry.

My grandma had over a dozen live births, though only 6 made it to adulthood. She lived in such grinding poverty that I doubt she could even afford a midwife for an abortion. She was either pregnant, nursing or getting pregnant again.

So I guess the answer is money. But how many abortions can you have?

Maybe their husbands had narrow urethras.

[quote]Maybe their husbands had narrow urethras.

A well-known side effect of exposure to propane gas.

Abortions, in one form or another, have been around for centuries. And rich women could always access them.

Seem to recall something about French letters …

Pine needle tea.

A lot of praying that you get your period every month, or abortions.

Ash poultices.

Vinegar soaked sponges were used in ancient Rome.

I used to fascinated by herbal remedies and remember reading an article in VF that Edna St. Vincent Millay deliberately took alkanet to provoke a miscarriage on a visit to Britain back in the day.

I remember reading something about Henry VIII's fifth wife Catherine Howard being suspected of using contraception back in Tudor times but cannot find a good link that doesn't involve downloading a document.

"Pine needle tea."

Orally or vaginally?

It's never been an issue for me.

Chastity belts and chaperones.