Newswise — Human childbirth is commonly viewed as uniquely difficult and dangerous. The reason: the combination of bipedalism and large brains creates a tight fit between the baby and the birth canal.

Human childbirth has long been considered especially risky, owing to upright bodies with large brains moving through narrow birth canals, but it turns out we're no outliers: difficult births are ...

For some women, the birth of their baby is one of the happiest days of their lives. Others remember it as a frightening, overwhelming or deeply distressing experience. About 1 in 3 women report their ...

For centuries, childbirth’s pain was explained as punishment; more recently, as the evolutionary price of walking upright and bearing large-brained babies. But if difficult birth occurs across ...

Women who have been exposed to multiple traumatic experiences during childhood have more difficult births than others. They are much more likely to need emergency cesarean sections, suffer major ...

Learn how 3D models of primate birth canals found that squirrel monkeys, bushbabies, and other small species may face a tighter squeeze than humans. A diagram drawn by a primatologist in the 1940s has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Human childbirth may not be unique, a new review finds similar birth risks across many mammals. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) Human birth ...

Difficult birth has been recorded in species that seem, at first glance, to have little in common with humans. Even whales and dolphins show obstructed births, despite lacking a fully formed bony ...