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ELI5: If women in labor get stuck away from the hospital their babies seem drop out in taxi cabs and subway cars in an uncontrolled fashion. What's the purpose of them being told to strain and push? Won't the baby come out anyway?
gpt
Babies don't just fall out of vaginas. Labour can be unexpectedly short for some women, but that does not mean they avoided the normal strain of labour pain and delivery. In most cases even these short labours someone is there to help deliver (even if it is a family member who is taking telephone advice from emergency service) - advice includes breathing and pushing information - which needs to be timed properly.
There are also many complications that can occur during delivery that can affect both mother and baby. And sometime the baby is too big to even come out and emergency c-sections are performed.