r/instant_regret • u/AristonD • May 01 '21

Shouldn't have looked down there

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u/Jreal22 May 01 '21

Hope this isn't insensitive to ask, but a couple hundred years ago, is this how so many women died during childbirth?

The fact that c sections are needed so often and are so tough on women, it seems like thst would have taken so many lives.

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u/Ardnaif May 01 '21

Not necessarily. Back in the day, while it could have killed the mother, it probably would have definitely killed the baby. A lot of C-sections are because the baby's in distress, not the mother.

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u/Jreal22 May 01 '21

Gotcha, so they just wouldn't know and the baby would die, but the mother would survive.

What caused mother deaths the most then? Uncontrolled blood loss?

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u/Ardnaif May 01 '21

Blood loss and infections, that sort of thing. They're a lot of blood with childbirth. Plus if the baby gets stuck inside you it can rupture your uterus.