The Bad Science of Voyager

[Discofan]

....so without an attentive assistant there's a reasonable chance that the baby will just be dropped onto the ground from five feet up.

So they're like giraffes then! Giraffe's babies drop at birth from a height that would break a human being's neck!!! FIVE FEET!!!

 

[Tenacity]

childbirth is apparently done standing up, so without an attentive assistant there's a reasonable chance that the baby will just be dropped onto the ground from five feet up

Or standing up is a modern method, and in the distanct past it was done with the mother on her side or otherwise.

Pre-historic Humans didn't give birth laying on a clean hospital bed, with a board certified doctor in attendance.