Childbirth, labor, delivery in SF

Lois McMaster Bujold. Barrayar, "The Mountains of Mourning" in Borders of Infinity and several other Miles Vorkosigan novels. (cultural clash between "modern women" who use uterine replicators and "old-fashioned" women who insist on "body births," which the modern women consider absurdly dangerous.
Suzy McKee Charnas. Motherlines (detailed childbirth scene)
Suzette Haden Elgin. (Woman tortured during childbirth)
Elizabeth A. Lynn. "Jubilee's Story," "The Man Who Was Pregnant"
Gabrielle's Hope episode of Xena: Warrior Princess - Gabrielle gives birth
Existence episode of The X-Files - Scully gives birth
In Arcadia Ego episode of Millennium - another birth scene
"Expecting" (Angel 1x12) - Cordelia & other women wake up pregnant; they progress basically to labor & then poof - no pregnancies
Angel season 4 - Cordelia is pregnant (again); she does give birth & then lapses into a coma.

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