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That seems unlikely. Source?
I looked it up, apparently he did want to see children born, but the practice started in the 1500s?
If this video is correct about it being Louis XIV starting it, it's after 1660.
ETA it's wrong, and you're right - 1598. Louis XIV's parents hadn't even been born then!
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/birthing-furniture-an-illustrated-history/#:~:text=The recommendation to give birth,and would help induce labor.