Have been reading this book and was surprised to see what they did in history I expected they would do things naturally and breastfeed but instead reading things like women's being knocked out with drugs so they wouldn't complain or make noise and Abused unnecessarily ,cut during labour and then I though well surely things improved after only to read that they had a mortality rate of 99% of babies because mothers didn't breastfeed for religious and superstitious reasons .
I read about drs overtaking midwives because they needed more work so put out advertising campaigns against them and made it illegal for doulas to practice.

My mother in law talks of how she was given an enema and the child want kept in the same room

Sure makes things now seem a lot nicer

What things do you think we will look back in the future to now and think of as unnecessary and silly or even barbaric?
I'm curious to see how the future if birthing and baby care changes I hope it is for the better