Hey where the pregnant women at?

Have you ever noticed how few pregnant people you find in TTRPGs? It's pretty weird, when you think about it. For most of history, women had a lot of kids - up to 7, sometimes even more! - and considering most women stopped having children in their 40's (or even their 30's, when exposed to conditions of hunger), that is a cool 1/3 of their fertile life spent involved in the process of pregnancy; double that if you include newborns, which you should. Let's look at a historical example: Eleanor of Aquitaine. Eleanor married twice, once at 13, and again at 28. From both her husbands she had 10 children, with the first being at age 21 and the last being at age 42; a prodigious feat! So for about half of her adult life, any time you met her, she would have been pregnant with some child or another. Not all women mothered so many though, Cleopatra only had four children (albeit two were twins), the first at age 22 and the last at age 29. A modest number, but if we account for the newborn…