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In many 90s comedies/dramas, a key plot point involves a pregnant woman going into labor unexpectedly, and the hapless husband having to race through traffic to get to the hospital. This seems to rarely happen today. What medical advances occurred in the last 30 years to make this trope obsolete?

by /u/PaladinFeng in /r/AskHistorians

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