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Eastern NE KS | No, I don't suggest you are lazy, but I think you are look for an excuse for poorer performance. I suggest you really don't want that.
You have farrowed more pigs than me, somewhere around 2x. I think I've made most mistakes a novice makes. Most were thinking the sow's fine for one more week/day so she is still in the gestation pen. Less commonly, was nutrition based yielding weak piglets to piglets too big to be easily born. Nutrition mistakes were financially more impactful than the first. I had a gilt snap and kill all her piglets and had no idea that was going to happen but learned tell tale signs. I've long forgot my time lapse between births to trigger any action.
What surprised me is your idea about women. If valid, why there no hint of deeply learning their (wife's) detailed observations leading to a learned action. I don't think it is a mystical thing called 'female intuition' and even if it was, you can learn the triggers and what she does for a good outcome.
What I do know, is personally being a midwife to cows or to sows is a taxing, sleep depriving job that goes much better in an operation with two or more people to share the effort. And you could strive to be as good at it as you see in your wife.
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Swine: A Study in Behavior
