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
Dogs and cows can give birth in the dirt, but without human monitoring and intervention, they die at higher rates like anything else, they just tend to go to secluded places so you never see dead mom and babies on the side of the road unless a human person put them there. Add to that, scavenger animals exist and come eat the dead bodies, so the secluded dead aren’t there for very long and recognizable.
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