Topic
Twilight sleep
About: Twilight sleep is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 49 publications have been published within this topic receiving 538 citations.
Papers
TL;DR: The time is not yet right for a general recommendation of the procedure to be described, but the “prophylactic forceps operation” is the routine delivery of the child in head presentation when the head has come to rest on the pelvic floor, and the early removal of the placenta.
224 citations
TL;DR: There are sociologic parallels between the patient advocacy of Twilight Sleep and that of psychoprophylaxis and the public perception of these movements, which were begun by physicians and subsequently endorsed by militant lay groups.
79 citations
TL;DR: In 1914 and 1915, thousands of American women testified to the marvels of having babies without the trauma of childbirth, and this 1914 ideal contrasts with today's feminist stress on being awake, aware, and in control during the birthing experience.
Abstract: "At midnight I was awakened by a very sharp pain," wrote Mrs. Cecil Stewart, describing the birth of her child in 1914. "The head nurse ... gave me an injection of scopolamin-morphin. ... I woke up the next morning about half-past seven ... the door opened, and the head nurse brought in my baby. ... I was so happy."1 Mrs. Stewart had delivered her baby under the influence of scopolamine, a narcotic and amnesiac that, together with morphine, produced a state popularly known as "twilight sleep." She did not remember anything of the experience when she woke up after giving birth. This 1914 ideal contrasts with today's feminist stress on being awake, aware, and in control during the birthing experience. In 1914 and 1915, thousands of American women testified to the marvels of having babies without the trauma of childbirth. As one of them gratefully put it, "The night of my confinement will always be a night dropped out of my life."2
64 citations
Book•
1 Jan 1984
51 citations
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