Facts About Childbirth:

The prototype of the chainsaw we are familiar with today in the timber industry was pioneered in the late 18th century by two Scottish doctors as a surgical tool to aid in the process of difficult childbirth. 

The Aztecs regarded childbirth as a form of battle. Women who died during childbirth were thought to rise to one of the highest heavens, the same one as for male warriors who died in battle.

There is a legend that Athens’ first female physician dressed as a man to help women during childbirth. Male physicians accused her of seducing the women, leading to her appearing in court, where she revealed herself as a female and Athenian law was changed to allow female physicians.

Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis dropped the mortality rate for childbirth from 12% to 2% after he insisted doctors wash their hands in between handling cadavers and delivering babies.

Theodore Roosevelt watched his mother die of typhoid fever and then immediately had to go upstairs and see his wife die of complications from childbirth.

The ancient Greeks used the electrogenic properties of electric rays to numb the pain of childbirth and operations.

A woman became paralyzed after her spine was injected with a powerful antiseptic instead of epidural during childbirth.

After childbirth, you can literally kill your wife by going down on her.

For nearly 50 years the Catholic church of Spain stole nearly 300000 newborn babies from families and sold them to Catholic families for adoption. Telling their bio parents the kids died shortly after childbirth.

Some women have orgasms during childbirth.

Research has estimated that up to 95 percent of women can safely give birth without medical interventions.

In 1965, around 8% of childbirths in the black community occurred out-of-wedlock; in 2010 that figure was around 41%. Today around 72% of African-American childbirths are out of wedlock.

An Indian woman gave birth to her baby while using the toilet on a train that emptied directly onto the tracks. She passed out after giving birth, and after she reported what happened, rail workers found the baby alive and unharmed.

Women need to strengthen their pelvic floor after childbirth or they risk urine leaks, flatulence, and even prolapse when they a cough, sneeze, laugh or strain themselves. Even after strengthening urine leaks are common even years after childbirth.

In the US maternal death rate increased from 1990 to 2015. 

African elephants chew specific tree leaves “apparently to induce birth. Kenyan women brew a tea from this tree to induce childbirth.”