#dotheyknowthings

I am very very curious about their period/pregnancy situation especially with all the weird weather conditions, stressful situations (eminent death can be very stressful I’ve heard) diets and traveling (lots of horseback traveling in particular) :

1) Yes yes this is a fantasy setting, but seeing that they kept pointing out to the fact that ‘once the girl has had her blood, she is ready to be wed’ in most of the 1st season, and they seem to keep having kids, I can safety assume the women’s biology are very similar to a real woman’s... SO WHAT DID THESE WOMEN DO DURING AUNT FLO’S VISIT???? 

2) Since this looks to set sort in the European middle ages, and some studies suggest that women in that time might have either bled out into their dresses (EW!) coz they thought ‘ Washing and changing underclothing was regarded as unhealthy, because women feared it would block the bleeding or cause more intense bleeding." (link: http://www.mum.org/whatwore.htm)

 3) Did they have cramps??? If not, WHY NOT!? (Don’t u dare say magic! I will burn u in wildfire) and how did they deal with it??? They wouldn’t even have know about cysts and thyroid problems! Which leads to....

4) How do these women keep getting pregnant!? Given the conditions they live in and the kind of unprotected sex they are having in some very dirty places, how have none of these women gotten an STD!? or died of infections!?

5) Better yet, how are the children normal!? Wouldn’t they be physically weaker? (isn’t that how biology works?? Please correct me if I am wrong) With Incest being a trademark of the Targaryn family, shouldn’t that family have died off even before reaching the MAD king?? Their immune system must have been shot to pieces! In that sense Daenerys must be one frail girl!