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Human births are painful and heartbreaking

Animals produce offspring so easily

By Karen GillanahPublished 2 years ago 5 min read
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We have known since ancient times that giving birth to a woman's offspring is a very difficult and painful process and that childbirth is a lengthy one, like walking through a ghost's door for a mother.

By definition, humans are also one of the many mammals, but human childbirth is more painful than other mammals, while animals seem to be as if they are light-hearted, what is going on?

Animals give birth much faster

People who have pets at home may find that when they give birth to their pets, animals do not make a particularly strong noise when they give birth to their offspring, the whole process is relatively smooth, and in many cases, they do not need human help at all, they can complete the birth independently.

And most small mammals generally give birth to multiple children, the production process is so smooth and can achieve multiple children, that human birth seems to be much easier. Compared to domesticated animals, wild animals give birth more "wild", they can find a safe place at random to complete the birth independently.

Not only that, animals recover quickly after giving birth, and do not need to "sit in bed" like humans generally, and will soon be able to recuperate their bodies, wild animals even rest a few moments to go out for food, after all, the harsh living environment in the wild does not allow them to rest peacefully all the time.

However, not all mammals are particularly smooth production, cattle, and sheep animals will give birth to offspring than cats, dogs give birth to more painful, and the general number of offspring is only one or two.

There is a hybrid animal: the Belgian blue cattle, they go through the production process is more painful, due to crossbreeding caused by genetic mutations that make them missing muscle inhibitors, so the offspring growth rate is particularly fast, and their production can not be done independently.

They must be assisted by humans, and when necessary, they need to be "cesarean section" to ensure the safety of the fetus and the mother they can already see the shadow of why human birth is so painful.

Twelve levels of pain

Let's understand how much pain women have to endure in childbirth, the human body feels the pain is generally divided into twelve levels, if the pain of mosquito bites is counted as the first level, a mother in labor needs to endure the pain is up to twelve levels.

The birth of a child is a long process in which the mother will always feel varying degrees of pain, as she will be subjected to excruciatingly painful and regular contractions throughout the process.

Another childbirth tip we need to understand is the "opening of the fingers", knowing that if a mother chooses to have a normal birth, she will have to endure the pain of opening 10 fingers.

Before delivery, a pregnant woman's cervix has a hole smaller than a finger, but during delivery, it needs to expand to the size of ten fingers, which is bigger than a fist. The pain is so intense.

And not only the pain of the delivery process but also at the end of the delivery, the pregnant woman is not immediately liberated, because her body has to go through other pains, such as back and tendon pain, pain from wound expansion and tearing, etc. Therefore, human birth is indeed an unbearable experience.

Therefore, human childbirth is indeed a painful and unbearable process.

The reason why human birth is more painful than animal birth

Why is childbirth a hundred times more painful for humans than for animals when they are also mammals?

The pain of human childbirth over animals is also due to human evolutionary reasons, although humans have stood at the top of the natural food chain, and can be called the world's most intelligent creatures, but also had to pay some price.

The first is the consequence of learning to walk upright, humans and some mammals are also aig different are that humans can easily walk upright, while animals are very difficult to do.

To be better adapted to the environment, our ancestors began to walk upright very early, for a long time to maintain the upright walking human pelvis is also slowly narrowing, because a narrower pelvis can better ensure the balance of human upright walking, but this also greatly increased the difficulty and pain of human childbirth.

According to comparative studies by biologists, the human pelvis is much narrower and has a more rugged birth canal than that of its close relative, the chimpanzee, which is also the result of long periods of upright walking.

Second is the evolution of the brain, human ancestors were the first to use the brain and other sensory organs to adapt to the presence and changes in the environment, and in the process, the brain continued to receive new knowledge and enhance the ability to think.

Some studies have found that the brain capacity of upright walking humans has been increasing, from 800ml in early Homo erectus to 1300-1500ml in today's humans, which is a symbol of increasing human intelligence. However, the human female uterus can only accommodate a small volume of the brain, and the larger the brain volume of the baby, that means the more pain the pregnant woman has during delivery will be doubled.

In addition, almost all mammals experience contractions of varying degrees before giving birth and compared to animals, human contractions will take longer and will be affected by many factors, with intermittent pain lasting for more than ten hours, one of the few major pains of the birthing process.

Conclusion

Human beings enjoy the advanced civilization brought by evolution, but they also have to suffer some physical pain for it.

Mankind has been exploring ways to relieve the pain of childbirth, and with the improvement of science and blood technology, women's pain during childbirth can be relieved to some extent, thus reducing the pain caused by female childbirth.

The evolution of human beings is a natural choice, the reproduction of living creatures is also a natural phenomenon, and the birth of each kind of life deserves to be respected. The reproduction of human offspring reflects the greatness of women, so every mother is great and deserves to be celebrated.

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Karen Gillanah

The aggravation that can be told is not aggravation; the lover that can be snatched away is not a lover.

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