Ancient
Deep Dive: Birthing on the bricks
Pregnancy was a major hazard for women in the ancient world. According to Tod Brisbane (2007), the odds were that at least one in every 60 pregnant women would die. This is difficult to comprehend in the developed world today, where the chance of dying in pregnancy is one in 10,000.
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