Did you know that giving birth lying down wasn’t always the norm? For centuries, women used gravity and birthing stools. But King Louis XIV of France had a strange obsession: he wanted to watch his children being born, and the stools blocked his view!
In this video, we look at the dark history of how one royal’s preference became a global medical standard—even though it might actually make labor harder for mothers today.
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