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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While humans may have relatively bad childbirth experiences compared with many mammals, I don’t imagine it is the absolute worst of the whole animal kingdom. For example, there are some animals, such as the crab spider, whose reproductive cycles end in the offspring eating the mother.

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