Since Michelangelo it's been a challenge. (Perhaps since Michelangelo nobody worth their salt would dare rise to that challenge - me, for instance. Death, Suffering, Passion and Sorrow are just so much more universal - and therefore easier moments to capture.)

In literature, art, and film, there have been many attempts to depict, sometimes metaphorically, the moment of birth.

Here's my quick, crude attempt to depict political birth;

Déjà vu anyone?