Turns out...giving birth in a comfortable bed is not normal. Find out why it started as we compare myths to history, involving Louix XIV, his doctor, and his many women.

Music is thanks to the incredibly talented and amazing Teresa Suydam!!

Sources:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/21158912_Francois_Mauriceau_1637-1709_and_maternal_posture_for_parturition

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Mauriceau

https://evidencebasedbirth.com/evidence-birthing-positions/

https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Diseases_of_Women_with_Child_and_in/1kRgAAAAcAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PR1&printsec=frontcover

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justine_Siegemund

https://www.history.com/news/royal-birth-traditions-marie-antoinette-meghan-markle

https://www.iflscience.com/theres-a-really-creepy-reason-why-women-mainly-give-birth-lying-down-64107

http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdf/10.2105/AJPH.77.5.636

https://bmcpregnancychildbirth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12884-020-2726-4#:~:text=Conclusion,the%20mother%20and%20her%20baby.

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