Talk:Twilight sleep

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Is this the same procedure used by dentists?

I doubt it. But I read that this Twilight sleep almost always reasulted in insanity on the mothers part. Any record of this anywhere? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.245.41.78 (talk) 08:20, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
 * That's probably not true, because if every woman who had this done went insane therafeter, I'm sure that it would have been put to rest much quicker. Snagglepuss (talk) 17:28, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

When I had my baby in 1969, they used the twilight sleep on me which according to my sister (an Ob/gyn nurse) was a combination of demoral and scopolamine. I had really bad headaches for several days after the delivery which I eventually figured out was my reaction to the twilight sleep (probably the scopalamine). Also, it took longer for me to deliver because I was so messed up that I couldn't bear down when the doctor told me to. —Preceding unsigned comment added by DebbiePLS (talk • contribs) 18:09, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

I am surprised that more modern drugs such as ketamine (which has no effect on foetal respiration and is, indeed, widely used in paediatric, including neonatal, surgery) and rohypnol, have not been used instead. I suspect, but have never been able to demonstrate this, that midwives used the traditional drugs as far back as the Middle Ages, since opium, usually in the form of laudunum, was widely used after the Crusades and hyoscine (scopolomine) was probably already used in Western Europe long before the days of the Roman Empire. Use:ZoeinDerby ZoeinDerby (talk) 11:48, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

Scopolamine/Morphine was first used by the Nazis when killing disabled children
See: http://www.holocaust-history.org/lifton/LiftonT055.shtml Variants (hyoscine derivatives) + morphine is currently being used in 'prn' doses to involuntarily euthenase the elderly in the UK National Health Service - many of whom have been incorrectly judged to be 'terminally ill' to save the NHS money 79.75.221.175 (talk) 22:24, 28 November 2012 (UTC)twl79.75.221.175 (talk) 22:24, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

Distinguish from twilight anesthesia
Is this similar enough to twilight anesthesia to justify merging the articles? If not, what is the technical distinction? --SoledadKabocha (talk) 04:32, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

Hospitalisation causes death?
Childbirth was the leading cause of death for 19thC women but this article implies that childbirth became a cause of death with 20thC hospitalisation. Did hospitalisation increase the death rate? 87.114.58.98 (talk) 02:48, 21 January 2024 (UTC)