> If you truly want to try life in the 1800s, be expected to have 18-20 children, all born at home, and have half of them die before the age of five because of dysentery, typhoid, scarlet fever or measles.
18-20 children is incredibly exaggerated. The average was more like 7. And being born at home is still the best way today. Most deaths would be prevented by cleanliness, like not getting water downstream from the animals like that article says, using soap and not just dipping your hands in a bucket of water to be reused many times but keeping the bucket clean by using a clean jug to take a little out and using that with soap. But washing correctly is only likely to be important after working with animals or dirt.
The other things in that article aren't very bad and I would definitely take them over modern society.
https://www.iamcountryside.com/homesteading/simple-homesteading-life-in-the-1800s/
> If you truly want to try life in the 1800s, be expected to have 18-20 children, all born at home, and have half of them die before the age of five because of dysentery, typhoid, scarlet fever or measles.
The other things in that article aren't very bad and I would definitely take them over modern society.