My mum was 'put to sleep' for my birth - against her will! She was furious when she woke up, but forgot to complain once they brought me to her and she finally got to hold me.
This wasn't in England. For my big sister's birth, my parents had done one of the first NCT courses, dm had a Natural Birth using only G&A, with my ddad supporting her for most of her labour.
When dm was pg with me, they were living in another country. Ddad was expected to either (a) go to work and come back to the hospital in the evening (though they would phone his work if he really couldn't wait to find out) or (b) pace the waiting room.
Mum vividly remembers pushing, and the sensation of me crowning, followed by - nothing. Next thing, she's in bed on the ward, all cleaned up, no baby. Very frightening, but dad told her he'd seen me and I was safe and healthy in the hospital nursery.
The doctor told dad that they'd knocked mum out to protect her from pain because she had not been co-operating. Dm said that they hadn't let her walk around, insisting she remain on the bed, and that the nurses had kept pushing the G&A mask onto her, rather than let her control when she used it. Anyway, she said, the most painful parts, the contractions and the crowning, had been over by the time the doctors had drugged her.
She made sure they were back in England for little sister's birth!
Mum considered this drugged birth as very misogynistic, rather than supportive.