Why are babies usually head down in the womb, but when adults are upside down it’s extremely uncomfortable and/or dangerous

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Why are babies usually head down in the womb, but when adults are upside down it’s extremely uncomfortable and/or dangerous

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Babies aren’t upside down. They rotate in the weeks before birth. I imagine it’s tolerable and better than a breech birth which can mean death. As for children and adults being upside down isn’t normal and we haven’t evolved to live that way.

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