How Did Ancient Humans Survive Childbirth?

How did ancient humans survive childbirth without anesthesia, antibiotics, or a single sterile tool? For most of human history, giving birth carried a lifetime risk as high as one in eight. From a painted Egyptian birth brick to a family of surgeons who kept lifesaving forceps locked in a box for a century, to a doctor who discovered handwashing could stop deadly infections decades before anyone believed him, this is the real, often brutal history of how women kept each other alive through one of the most dangerous things a human body can do. Subscribe for more hidden history. #AncientHistory #Childbirth #Medicine