I hear of women in my community and across the world either having stillbirths or dying during the process of birth all the time. Why?
How can a dog or a cow give birth in the dirt and turn out fine, but if humans did the same, the mom/infant have a higher chance of dying? How can baby mice, who are similar to human babies (naked, gross, blind), survive the “newborn phase”?
And why are babies so big but useless? I understand that babies have evolved to have a soft skull to accommodate their big brain, but why don’t they have the strength to keep their head up?
In: Biology
So, to start with, lots and lots of dogs and cows give birth in the dirt and *aren’t* fine without human intervention. Domesticated animals often do have human intervention during birth and as a result are having more successful births due to domestication. Wild animals also have a pretty atrocious “infancy mortality rate” such as it is, never mind the maternal mortality rate. So your initial premise is flawed from the start – animals do have a pretty terrible birth mortality rate; humans do as well as we do because of the communal aspect of our societies.
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