Re: [ozmidwifery] twilight delivery - or twilight baby?

[jireland]

Twilight sleep was OMNOPON AND SCOPOLAMINE and the babies survived very well I have used it about 25 yrs ago mostly for women having their baby adopted or having a stillborn baby they yelled with pain but remember on one leval nothing jan ----- Original Message ----- From: Lesley Kuliukas To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 10:29 PM Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] twilight delivery - or twilight baby? Rather ironically this was promoted by the feminist movement. It was a German technique adopted by the Americans as a way to emancipate women from the pain of labour and so free them from the sexist burden of childbirth pain. Lesley . ----- Original Message ----- From: Mary Murphy To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 6:00 PM Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] twilight delivery - or twilight baby? Hi, My 88yr old mother, a midwife in a previous life, tells me that it was a mixture of morphine and scopolamine.  she was injected with it it in 1950, against her protests,  for the birth of my sister and nearly died with an anaphylactic shock reaction. It was a common injection for "painless labour".  It was painless alright because women were unconcious and sometimes couldn't remember giving birth MM  ----- Original Message ----- From: Rhonda To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 5:19 PM Subject: [ozmidwifery] twilight delivery - or twilight baby? Hi, all of you knowledgable women,   I was talking to a friend today who said that her sister in law who was born in the 1940's claims to be a "twilight baby"?  Apparently her mother - who has passed away now and cannot explain the reason - had her first child as a natural delivery - the second was this weird delivery where she went into hospital on her due day not in labour  - got put to sleep and then woke up having delivered the baby vaginally while asleep or in twilight!  The next two were normal, natural births. Does anyone know about this practice - obviously not done now days - i presume!   She was curious about how it was done and why it may have been done.   Any ideas?   Regards Rhonda.       ____________________________________________________   IncrediMail - Email has finally evolved - Click Here

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