I’m sure you were more used to it. I used to have friends who thought the middle ages was such a romantic time and would have gone back to that time if they had been able to. I always thought...yeah, well people were rather stinky by our standards today. I even watched the Lord of the Rings movies thinking...those people look very smelly. I think I’m too hygenic!
Also quality medical treatment. Death in childbirth is almost unknown these days but in the "good old days" death from sepsis was very common.