Why are babies usually born in the night?

Question

Surely this would have made things more difficult during the dark ages? How would the cave men have been able to see what was going on properly?

Answer 1

Typically, babies are asleep when Mama is awake, and awake when Mama is asleep.

The fact that Mama is relaxed more when she is asleep surely helps, too!

Answer 2

Both my kids were born in the morning - 05.42am and 09.14am - I guess statistically you have a 50/50 chance of being born at night. As for cave men... I doubt they would have attended the birth, they'd be too busy guarding the cave and the woman would be expected to deliver alone. Same goes for the dark ages - birthing was a womans job and the men didn't pay a lot of attention. Hmm.. not so different today really is it? LOL.

Answer 3

May be that's because they are more likely to be conceived at night..Cave men would have been out all day hunting food so when he came back to his cave woman they would procreate .The cace man would not have to see what was going on the women would just let nature take over,they would have had the stars and moon for light if needs be.

Answer 4

I read somewhere that babies were born at night because this meant the mother was less vulnerable to predators e.g. sabre tooth tigers/ The dark concealed the mother from the tiger. Also the mother would have usually already found somewhere safe to sleep.

Impossible to know for certain but makes a certain type of sense!

Answer 5

I don't think there is that big a difference. I was born in the day, my sister the end of the night. There are almost equal chances, I would think. But, there would be a reason- that ancestors of ours would be safer at night, protected by the dark, considering most danger would probably be in the daytime.

Answer 6

It's not a proven theory, but scientist's generally agree that thousands of years ago, before we lived in house's, women were very vunerable during childbirth if they were to be attacked by wild animals, it was much safer to give birth at night-time when dangerous animal's would be sleeping, and her man would also be home from hunting to protect her

It's now one of the many instincts we've inherited from our ancestors, that is not particular useful anymore

Answer 7

I was born at 1:25 in the afternoon so they aren't all born in the night

Answer 8

I didn't know that most babies are born at night,....I thought they are born when they are ready to be born. Both my children are born during the day.( maybe thay were conceived during the day...who knows...lol)

Answer 9

i thought it was the other way around because all my brothers, sisters, my mum, dad and my self were born between 11 am and 2 pm but i guess it's just my family.

Answer 10

well most people have sex at night? lol, i'm not sure, perhaps a mother is more ready to give birth when she is relaxed, and most people are relaxed at night.