The one thing that would make me want to throw things at the screen more than Darla staking herself so Connor could be born would be Tim Minear's original idea of Angel doing it.
I had to google Tim Minear to remember why I had this vague sense that he's a man with occasionally godawful ideas, and I came up with this (http://www.whedon.info/article.php3?id_article=12674) (trigger warning: rape).
Minear talks about the Darla arc amongst other things in an interview that was linked at Whedonesque:
http://whedonesque.com/comments/26357
I slightly misremembered it according to Emmie's summary in the comments
"Some of the storytelling decisions revealed in this interview are incredibly interesting. Like how Angel was even more rough with Darla before sleeping with her and that Tim had originally planned for Angel to stake Darla upon consummation. Then there was discussion of Darla's death to give life to Connor, again originally planned as a doctor staking Darla as like a vampire c-section -- and Joss suggested that she stake herself."
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Date: 2012-07-20 02:20 pm (UTC)....WHAT.
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Date: 2012-07-21 01:31 pm (UTC)http://whedonesque.com/comments/26357
I slightly misremembered it according to Emmie's summary in the comments
"Some of the storytelling decisions revealed in this interview are incredibly interesting. Like how Angel was even more rough with Darla before sleeping with her and that Tim had originally planned for Angel to stake Darla upon consummation. Then there was discussion of Darla's death to give life to Connor, again originally planned as a doctor staking Darla as like a vampire c-section -- and Joss suggested that she stake herself."