This was overheard many years ago when my Auntie was telling Mum as they both stood outside the privvy where I was sitting in state.
Auntie was a country herbalist and local people would consult her, including for abortifacients.
A married woman with 8 children came to her and Auntie, as always, began with a lecture about forms of contraception.
Auntie: 'She looked at me and I've never seen a face so shocked, she said, "does yer mean that what I does wiv me old man causes babies?"
This woman, well into her 30's had no idea that sex caused pregnancy.
Auntie said, 'She marched out of my cottage with a determined look on her face saying, "Well then, now I know what to do abaht it, there'll be no more young 'uns."
And there never were'.
