Judging by families I've known - even if you ignore the still common stillbirths (something that's heartbreaking for those it happens to) - it's still pretty hi

Judging by families I've known - even if you ignore the still common stillbirths (something that's heartbreaking for those it happens to) - it's still pretty high. My own family lost one, another family I know lost some, know others who lost some too. It's still too common. I've known too many people who probably wouldn't have survived childbirth either, if it weren't for modern medicine. (particularly including my own mother) This is all changes within "recent history" - my great grandparents were born before any of this were available. I came close to dying too, of a disease that now has widespread vaccination. That vaccination wasn't available when I was little, and that disease still kills many where such isn't available - and most particularly children. And one will live the rest of one's life with the complications in a bad case.