Behind the scenes at Grimstead

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The round progress’s steadly, and Autumn falls pregnant again unfortunately she doesn’t make it though the pregnancy the book of death determines that 7 birth’s is quite enough for the young woman and she dies in childbirth giving life to Augustine another daughter.

Plan’s wise this doesn’t change much, at the end of the round both Aubin and Wulfric still get sent off to the talons farm, and Cadence remains at home taking care of her own daughter Henna and now Autumns two Vannah and Augustine, meaning there are now 3 growing girls to take over the family business.

Prostitution in medieval times was abit of a phenomena, one would naturally assume that medieval prostitutes would spend half their lives pregnant but this appears not to be the case. There are various “theory’s” on why they didn’t get pregnant as frequently as one would imagine.

It could be that they did, but because abortion was considered a sin (an even bigger one than being a prostitute to begin with), it was never written about but did take part quite regularly.

It’s also theorized that so many partners in so little time ment that things got so mixed up nothing managed to catch hold and pregnancy simply didn’t stick or that repeated exposure and infection with multiple Sexually transmitted diseases reduced there fertility or infact made them sterile.

Or perhaps it was just that their lives where so problematic that pregnancys more often than not miscarried before prostitutes realized there where pregnant.

These are just a few of the theory’s ive read about in the past few years. There are many many other’s out there, some even more colorful than these, many with a major “ewww” factor… still it is apparent that prostitutes didn’t seem to end up with as many children as one would imagine.

In order to represent this i have now knocked Candence age up a few years, what this does inadvertently though the ACR is naturally decreases her fertility (ACR has a nice feature where a sims fertility is based on her age), Anyway im hoping this will represent the idea that for what ever reason Candace’s fertility is going down quicker than normal for “whatever reason”.