Funny: My in-laws are from Southern Arizona,and when the family was young they picked cotton. All my BIL's insist my MIL picked 200 lbs of cotton both the day before and after she gave birth to her 13th child!(usually just after the birth of our own children complaining about us not holding up our end of things).
But she confided to the girls that she spent 3 weeks in bed before, and 4 after due to complications. In the '40's when she was having her babies, women normally spent 2 weeks in the hospital after having babies.
And just as soon as I get the cows milked and the corn planted tomorrow morning, I will start planting my cotton. Yeah, right!