Hi LaFemme...marathon? You Rock!!!!!!!
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LaFemme ...one of the reasons that mortality for humans in childbirth is one of the highest around.
I don't know about that...In college anthropology class I remember reading about native women in the Amazon jungle who lived a pre-contact lifestyle. When they were due to give birth they would quietly walk off into the forest and do it alone. Me-thinks that would, over time, ensure that complications would be minimized because the ones who had "difficult" birthing experiences wouldn't make it back to the village. We must have been doing something right to have lasted this long while so many other species went extinct.
Women do pay a dear price for a babies skull size, that's for sure!!!!
As for after child birth, in 2007 Emily Baer placed 8th overall in the Leadville 100 mile race even though she had to stop at each aid station to breastfeed her baby.
Murray