The mother said it was a conscious decision to promote birthing a strong, resilient child, based on her belief on the matter. I have no view, but it's an interesting report, given that her kid truly is an athletic outlier.
if she was committed enough to raising a healthy child that she was willing to skip an epidural and endure hours of excruciating pain
...do you think that same commitment might have shown up in other ways in her parenting? such as in the foods she fed her child, or the activities she encouraged that child to do?
man, I remember when I used to come to HN because the average intelligence level of the comments was higher than it was on reddit.
Given that 20-90% of people don't receive one across various modern countries, I think we have enough regular data. Otherwise like 80% of Germans would be champion athletes if a no-epidural birth really did that for you.