For a hundred thousand years women dropped the children on a soft spot in the field, the cave, the hut, the lean-to, the tipi, the house, wherever, and picked them up, cleaned them off and started feeding them. Boy, things have changed!
and what do you suppose the infant and maternal mortality rates were 100,000 years ago?
At the beginning of the 20th century, for every 1000 live births, six to nine women in the United States died of pregnancy-related complications, and approximately 100 infants died before age 1 year (1,2). From 1915 through 1997, the infant mortality rate declined greater than 90% to 7.2 per 1000 live births, and from 1900 through 1997, the maternal mortality rate declined almost 99% to less than 0.1 reported death per 1000 live births (7.7 deaths per 100,000 live births in 1997)
My grandfather was born in a cabbage patch in Yugoslavia. His mom was picking cabbage, had the baby, wrapped him up and kept picking cabbage.