It is interesting to see how Royalty has changed birth fads in the past. Queen Victoria, the Queen’s great-great- grandmother, had Chloroform in two of her births, and was the one to popularize the use of chloroform, and later on other pain relief, in labor. She took control in her birth in a way that women just didn’t do back then. Pain is a part of labor, it is prescribed by G-d, or so it was thought.
Now, many years and changes to the birth scene later, Kate Middleton, the current childbearing Royalty, has produced an heir in a new fashion, that is becoming increasingly widespread and popular throughout Britain and the rest of the world; HypnoBirthing.
While Queen Victoria sought freedom through pain relief, although she later stated that, “too much fuss is made out of a very natural and usual thing”. The Duchess of Cambridge, mother to the heir 3rd in line to the throne of England, chose a different type of freedom in birth; freedom to connect with her innate ability to birth easily, comfortably, and naturally; HypnoBirthing.
