Related for Kiddushin 146:11
פוטרת חברותיה מאי היא דתנן שלש נשים שהיו ישנות במטה אחת ונמצא דם תחת אחת מהן כולן טמאות בדקה אחת מהן ונמצאת טמאה היא טמאה וכולן טהורות אמר רב חסדא שבדקה עצמה כשיעור ווסת
If one examined herself and was found to be unclean, she is unclean, while the others are clean. Said R'Hisda: [That means] that she examined herself forthwith.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' , v. Nid. 14b.');"><sup>16</sup></span> Our Rabbis taught: A midwife is believed when she affirms, 'This one is a priest, this one is a Levite, this one a Nathin, this one a mamzer.'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If several women of different genealogical status are confined together.');"><sup>17</sup></span>
Tosefta Kiddushin
A man who went with his wife to the land beyond the sea, and he, his wife and his children came back, and he said: "The wife that went with me to the land beyond the sea—this is her and these are her children"—he needs to bring evidence neither about her nor about the children [to prove that they are his and hers]. "[The wife that went with me...] died, but here are her children"—he needs to bring evidence about the children but doesn't need to bring evidence about the wife. A woman/wife is believed when she says, "These are my children". (The following translated from the Ehrfurt manuscript:) A man is believed when he says: "The wife that I married in the land beyond the sea—this is her and these are her children"—he needs to bring evidence neither about the wife, nor about the children. "[I married a wife there but] she died, and these are her children"—he needs to bring evidence on both the wife and the children. A woman is believed when he says "These are my children."
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