>Yes, but up until decent, clean deliveries with the option of c-section, and anti-biotics child birth killed 5% of mothers[2] But you are conflating very diff

>Yes, but up until decent, clean deliveries with the option of c-section, and anti-biotics child birth killed 5% of mothers[2] But you are conflating very different issues. You can't give c-sections the credit for the benefits we gained from learning what bacteria are. Most women who died during childbirth died from infections, c-sections don't stop infections, hygiene and antibiotics do. You need to compare modern normal births to modern c-sections, not pre-germ theory normal births to modern c-sections.