Royals being put to sleep to give birth? *MNHQ edited the title for some sort of clarity*

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Posting in here for traffic, and also in case my lack of experience is at play here.

I have just been advised that when the royal family are due to deliver their babies they are put to sleep and someone else does the "work" for them because it is deemed too traumatic an experience.

Note, apparently this isn't a long winded and not really accurate attempt at saying they have caesarians.

I have scoffed at this, but an being told that this truly is the case. AIBU to not see how this is physically possible? And why on earth something like giving birth is deemed below the royals if so?

I feel like my Gran may have had this sort of birth in 1949, though I may be mixing up something I’ve read/seen on tv with real life! She is the same age as the queen and got married the same year (there was some sort of special thingame done for couples who were having their golden wedding anniversaries in the same year as the queen - can’t remember what it was, I was only 15 at the time and didn’t pay much attention).

I thought it was about butterflies too.

So relieved they are ok after all! :)

Andrew looked like a sedated birth but Edward looked like she was awake because of the noise she made.

King George 6th was put to sleep when he was dying apparently. Injection of cocaine to speed things up... nice way to go! It was in order to make the morning papers I believe

I thought this thread was about cruelty to butterflies!

Why do they bother with pregnancy then? They could just use a surrogate.

What a weird comment.

OP "being put to sleep during labour" would be clearer, I clicked through to see who'd been put down too!

(Nice stealth clickbait )

I read a while ago that Monarch butterflies were dying out. Their population had dwindled massively because of deforestation.
(sorry for derail).

My mother always maintains she was "knocked out" for my and my older sister's births. My older sister was adopted by another family. My mum says she never saw her as a baby as she (my mum) came round after the baby had been taken- pretty horrible huh. They did reunite twenty years later.

This was Ireland in the early '70s btw.

George 5 was the one euthanased. George 6 didn't need help. Dont smoke, people.

not that weird QuimReaper in the context where it was written, read the thread

Am I the only one who is disappointed that the title has been changed? It was certainly click bait worthy. 🤣

Of course it's rubbish. Even someone from a very rarified background (if those kind of people even exist now) is hardly going to consent to having absolutely no say in how they give birth. I am sure there are women who would ask for a birth like this, but that's very different from being told this is how it's going to be. And what would be the reasoning behind it? It's not a healthier or safer way to give birth. Maybe in days gone by some medics might have been a bit nervous about royal gynaecological matters so preferred to work with an unconscious queen or princess?? But I can't see that happening now. It's very unethical apart from anything else.

cucaracha it would be so controversial for a reigning monarch to use a surrogate, and you made it sound like the only point of carrying your own child is to experience the birth

I thought this would be about the royals having an opinion on euthanasia! I thought one of them had come out in favour of it.

Ot was there an extra context I'm missing?

It was in order to make the morning papers I believe

I thought it was even more specific than that - they were trying to make The Times deadline rather than the news appear in lesser papers first.

cucaracha why would sedation during labour mean you shouldn't have bothered being pregnant?

It was just Queen Victoria who was one of the first people known to use cholofporm in labour. Young royals are just like the rest of us - C section if they need it and probably though a bit more caution from doctors as they may be preserving the life of a monarch so they probably let the parent take fewer risks.

In The Crown the Queen is shown giving birth to Andrew in "twilight sleep" (looks completely out of it) but in fully conscious painful labour for Edward.
So it may have been used earlier but certainly no-one else could "do it for her"!!

My mum had one delivery like this if not more. I can’t quite remember. She had a really bad and long labour on me and was terrified to have another. She had another when I was four. Sadly the baby died shortly after birth (rubella related) and as she was unconscious during the Labour she didn’t see th baby. This was in Ireland too MayFayner.

You read it in a mag, so it must be true

Being put to sleep to give birth would be a totally weird and pointlessly dangerous thing to do in modern times but it was certainly done in the past.

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'....being put to sleep...' sounds a somewhat OTT reaction for producing an heir to the throne; it's a miracle that the Windsors have survived attempts at euthanising them!

It's so they don't accidentally revert to their lizard form while in the throes of pain.