Your mother had lots of years with babies, like me.
I’ve cut up vegetables for the dinner. Maybe I’ll go watch a lectures and write a letter next.
Yes, but the biggest factor I believe, was that she had Diphtheria as a teen and that left her with heart problems. She was also Rh Negative, and when she began having kids, there was no RhoGam available. It wasn’t invented until my younger sister was almost 10 years old, so there were seven of us, with and additional two that never made it to birth, that she brought into the world in spite of the problems.
So because illness and pregnancies, she napped, just so she could cope. Naps are probably what kept her from dying any sooner.