Hygiene was the biggest improvement. But also women started having children a little older, instead of in their early teens. So there was less strain on the fully developed body. Also, with real medical knowledge they started actually treating the disease instead of stupid things like "bleeding", making a cut to release the foulness. Gotta love superstition.
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Specifically what made child birth more dangerous throughout history...?
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Specifically, intervention made child birth more dangerous throughout history. Hygiene was unknown and when physicians tended their patients with dirty hands and blood on their aprons from ten operations ago, disease spread rampantly.
Along with that, dietary deficiencies left women with narrow pelvises, which created complications during birth.
The biggest developments didn't come until about 100 years ago, when standards of cleanliness were established. In more recent years, prenatal monitoring and in-utero monitoring have helped doctors detect potential problems and often to solve them, resulting in safe, healthy births.
Along with that, dietary deficiencies left women with narrow pelvises, which created complications during birth.
The biggest developments didn't come until about 100 years ago, when standards of cleanliness were established. In more recent years, prenatal monitoring and in-utero monitoring have helped doctors detect potential problems and often to solve them, resulting in safe, healthy births.
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And what were the biggest developments in the past 400-500 leading to a decrease of mortality rates during labour and post-natally?
Before contraception was legal women often had a child every two or three years until their luck ran out and they died in childbirth or they went through menopause. C-sections, which didn't kill the mother, and more sanitary conditions were also factors. Dr. Jesse Bennett performed the first successful caesarean section in the US in 1794 on his own wife, removing her ovaries at the same time, saying he would not be subjected to such an ordeal again. She was afraid she was dying and asked for one. Her attending physician refused. Her husband put her out using laudanum and saved her and their daughter.
"Margaret Higgins Sanger Slee (September 14, 1879 – September 6, 1966) was an American birth control activist and the founder of the American Birth Control League (which eventually became Planned Parenthood). Although she initially met with opposition, Sanger gradually won some support for getting women access to contraception.
Distributing a pamphlet, Family Limitation, to women, Sanger repeatedly caused scandal and risked imprisonment by acting in defiance of the Comstock Law of 1873, which outlawed as obscene the dissemination of contraceptive information and devices."
"Margaret Higgins Sanger Slee (September 14, 1879 – September 6, 1966) was an American birth control activist and the founder of the American Birth Control League (which eventually became Planned Parenthood). Although she initially met with opposition, Sanger gradually won some support for getting women access to contraception.
Distributing a pamphlet, Family Limitation, to women, Sanger repeatedly caused scandal and risked imprisonment by acting in defiance of the Comstock Law of 1873, which outlawed as obscene the dissemination of contraceptive information and devices."