It’s a pros and cons thing. The pros in this case are our upright posture with narrower hips that let us cover long distances more efficiently than most of the rest of the animal kingdom. We can even do things like carry food to eat while walking, which something like an antelope would struggle with. Then a second pro is the whole big brain thing. These two factors did let us take over most of the planet over the course thousands of years, pretty quick work, really.

Then the cons are high mortality in birth, and taking something like 10 years after that risky birth to become even semi-functional at a practical level.

Oh yea I have depression…

I had wondered.

A female friend once remarked to me that giving birth makes as much sense as exiting your car by crawling out through the exhaust pipe.

My sister’s first pregnancy was high-risk and she needed a c-section. She went on to get pregnant twice more. When I asked her why take the risk, she told me “because I get a kid out of it”. 🤷‍♀️

Meanwhile, some animals give birth standing up and the baby is ready to go shortly after. Nature is wild.