Abstract
Although childbirth is a universal fact of human physiology, the social nature of birth and its importance for survival ensure that this biological and intensely personal process will carry a heavy cultural overlay, resulting in wide variation in childbirth practices
Highlights
From the beginnings of our species, birth was exclusively the work of women as they labored to push their babies from the private inner world of their wombs into the larger world of society and culture
Today, increasing numbers of women around the world have their babies pulled through the “birth canal” with forceps or vacuum extractors, or cut from their wombs via cesarean section
This article describes the cultural overlays that are common to birth practices everywhere
Summary
From the beginnings of our species, birth was exclusively the work of women as they labored to push their babies from the private inner world of their wombs into the larger world of society and culture.
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