rethink birth series part 8 - don't feed the tigers

Don't feed the tigers. Don’t welcome them in, or let them get comfortable around you.

In the pre-modern world, when humans lived in the wilds, women had to go on with the rigors of daily life, pregnant or not. If they were out in the jungle gathering food or water, and a tiger appeared, they still needed to be able to run away with all the stamina they p…