Antibiotics and sulfa drugs took a lot of the risk out of it.
before that, even a yeast infection could become fatally septic.
It is estimated that between one quarter and one third of all women who lived before modern medicine died from some complication relating to their reproductive system, not necessarily involving a pregnancy.
Interesting. The large head on newborns makes the birth process so hazardous it’s a wonder as many women survived as did. Evolution definitely has a glitch there.