ELi5 Do humans experience more childbirth difficulties than the rest of the animal kingdom?

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Seems to me that even with our advances we suffer from an excessive amount of complications for a natural act.

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We’re definitely up there, but the hyena has is pretty bad, too. The hyena gives birth through its clitoris and sometimes the baby gets stuck and suffocated. It’s mainly just a problem on the first child though since the first one tears the clitoris making future births easier.

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