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ELI5: Why are humans so bad at giving birth?


This year ~275,000 women will die giving birth. Countless others will need significant medical intervention. Why is this process so hard for humans? Do other animals suffer / die in similar numbers? If not, what makes us as a species so bad at this??
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> Why is this process so hard for humans?

Because we are smart and use tools.

Being smart requires a big brain, which means a big skull. Using tools means we need to walk upright which is easier with narrow hips. But the skull needs to go *through* the hips at birth!

To compensate human infants are born relatively undeveloped and need to be taken care of, which we can do more effectively than deer for example. They are still born as close to maximum skull size as possible though so it is dangerous and painful.