[post_page_title]Queen Victoria fought against painful childbirth – and won[/post_page_title]
For most of human history, painful childbirth wasn’t only expected – it was supposedly deserved, the wages of Eve’s original sin. In 1591, an aristocratic woman was actually burned at the stake for asking for pain relief during the birth of her twins. When anesthetics came around in the 19th century, they were still taboo… until Queen Victoria.
A known trendsetter, Victoria gave birth to nine children, and asked her doctor to administer chloroform during the birth of baby eight. It helped, and after the Queen did it, requesting “Anesthésie à La Reine” (“anesthesia like the Queen”) suddenly wasn’t so outlandish.
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