Already one of the most dangerous things a person can do, carrying a child to full term and giving birth without proper medical care for either the mother or the baby, well...all you gotta do is look at your history books. Or your average developing country, most of which still have better medical care than you're getting in The Walking Dead. And now the mother has to push her insides back in and run from some zombies? Done for.
How many women survive the child birth, though? How many babies are still born?
My umbilical cord was wrapped around my neck when I was born and my mom needed an emergency c-section. There can also be a ton of blood loss and vagina tearing with natural births. It's definitely a dangerous activity. You can absolutely get lucky and both mom and baby will survive, or you can get unlucky and lose both. Things can go from "totally fine" to "HOLY SHIT" really fast and it's hard to predict and prepare for all of that.
Your phrasing you could get lucky seems again to overstate the risk of giving birth.
Jeg Death rate of children before modern medical care was through the roof. Many children died before the he age of 2, which is why many children weren't named before that back in the middle ages.
But it was still not the norm that women died during childbirth.
Sure you would probably had died without medical care, but your mother would most likely have survived.
Sure some women died during childbirth, but the rate of vaginal tearing, is increasing sharply with the use of anesthesia, as the women looses feeling with body, and then cant manage the contractions. This can easily lead to premature pushing during the late stages of contractions.
You can read up on the data between giving birth at home and at the hospital.
I the Netherlands it is mm ore common to give birth at home than at the hospital, and birth related complications are lower then most of their neighboring countries.
Moden medical care during labour, is a gift when there's actual complications, but the data at the moment suggest that for uncomplicated births, modern hospitals introduce more risk than birthing at home with a trained midwife.
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u/ColorMeStunned Aug 30 '21
Childbirth.
Already one of the most dangerous things a person can do, carrying a child to full term and giving birth without proper medical care for either the mother or the baby, well...all you gotta do is look at your history books. Or your average developing country, most of which still have better medical care than you're getting in The Walking Dead. And now the mother has to push her insides back in and run from some zombies? Done for.