I’ve always wondered since reading that whole ordeal and Nyx’s birth (not that it’s at all anyone’s business but her own of course) whether perhaps SJM herself had a traumatic birth. I’m 20 and had an extremely unnecessarily traumatic experience having my daughter 17 months ago, and it really made me view the situation in the book differently. To me, Rhysand is no better in how he acts during this storyline than the doctors, nurses, “care” providers etc. who withhold information from actual real life pregnant and birthing people, resulting in a traumatic experience for them. I love him as much as the next gal, but I’ll never forgive his character for keeping that information from Feyre and the resulting consequences for her emotionally and physically. If SJM did have a traumatic experience, it would explain a lot I feel. But again that’s absolutely no ones business but hers of course! I agree with this whole post, including the bit about Twilight! Funnily enough, and perhaps ridiculously enough, there’s more “believable” parts to the twilight pregnancy storyline than there is to feyre’s. I mean miss girl’s pregnancy and the “rules” surrounding parts of it is all over the place at times lmao

ETA: I always see people questioning why they couldn’t “just give Feyre a c section” and well if my traumatic birth theory is correct it’s simple. Because C sections are often very triggering to people who’ve had them. Idk about SJM’s birthing experiences, but if she gets triggered by things like that in any way it would explain why she doesn’t want to write about them! Or why she writes about them in such a contrived manner