Your post was very informative... I wasn't aware of just how intricate and formal the whole process was for royalty. I didn't know there was so much superstition that went into attempting to control the outcome of the birth. It makes me appreciate that I was not an expecting mother back then, to be stuck in a hot, stuffy room with a crowd of people watching me attempting to give birth, all the while judging me on the outcome of the baby's gender which they're expecting to be something based on their ritual and magic, wow not much pressure there! I don't really understand how women couldn't know they were pregnant until the fifth or sixth month though, or else personally they'd have an idea but kept it secret?