Well, medical science is considerably more advanced in the Star Wars universe than in ours, so presumably they have found a way to make childbirth easier.
Though strangely, in the case of both the Emperor and Darth Vader, they don't seem to have invented plastic surgery yet. ;)
71 posted on 05/23/2005 6:29:22 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves
("Violence never settles anything." Genghis Khan, 1162-1227)