I was referring to the wounds from the iron spikes, which Azhure doesn't seem all that worried about despite obviously knowing of the dangers of infection. Which... Lockjaw is a horrible way to die.

SCSF: I had forgotten about those, since Douglass forgot about those, but that is quite true!

Assuming they can magically prevent childhood ailments like smallpox, whooping cough, and measles from killing of their kids, a little bit of sense ought to net them many more children.

And they actually should be capable of preventing those! We know that the (untrained) Goodwives can make herbs more effective with what we are later told is a "tiny portion of their power", so why can these Banes (who apparently are capable of reshaping their forest and of preventing the negative consequences of the loss of the Greater Avarinheim) not make their own herbs cure everything? If they were a bit smart about it, there should barely be child mortality! Then again, the Avar seem to have no sense at all.

... And I have just realised that three kids in maybe five years assumes all of Fleat's children lived. It could have been four.

I highly suspect there was a child between Skali and Hogni, at least, given that Hogni is not noted to be about the same age as Skali.