Pregnant

April 3, 1932  Sunday.  The children went to the south church.  Mama and I stayed home all day.  John H. Reimers came over.

Wife Margaret was very pregnant by this point, so she would not have ventured out in public because that would have been considered immodest.  (However, she did Saturday’s baking and cleaning the day before.)  And Cornelius would never have mentioned in his diary something such as his wife being pregnant.  So Cornelius stayed home with his wife and with little Henry, who was less than a year old, while the older four children, Mary, Jake, Corney, and John, went to the church service at the south end of the settlement.  After dinner Margaret’s brother and family, John H. Reimers, came over to see how she was doing.  The Siemens household was waiting for the day when there would be a new baby.