Irregularity
Genevieve also brought up the question of why Barbara wasn’t receiving sufficient rest given the circumstances of the scenario. She was up and about way too much for a mother of that many children, and she ought to have been in bed getting some rest instead.
She had five children, but she was moving around way too much. When carrying several infants during pregnancy, the body is put through a great amount of pressure. Because of this, neither her assertions nor the way she was going about her life in the latter weeks of her pregnancy made any kind of sense.