An intriguing possibility! Not that childbirth is that passive an activity, but it's easy to imagine it being said.
Alas, I just went back and checked the discussion, and the person who mentions it - Cally Soukup, in conversation with Friedman - can't remember where she saw the reference (which seems to be the story of this phrase).
And Queen Victoria had said something else about something else. ;-)
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Date: 2011-10-16 07:37 am (UTC)Alas, I just went back and checked the discussion, and the person who mentions it - Cally Soukup, in conversation with Friedman - can't remember where she saw the reference (which seems to be the story of this phrase).
And Queen Victoria had said something else about something else. ;-)
That I find easy to believe.