Saiko 60-luvulla synnytyksessä jonkun huumauksen?

Minäkin tahtoisin tällaisen synnytyksen!



After World War II the process of giving birth changed. Increasingly, a woman went to the hospital for delivery instead of staying home. Through most of labor she inhaled pain-reducing anesthesia agents. Near the end of labor the woman was given general anesthesia to put her to sleep. Since she could not push the baby out, a physician used forceps, large steel spoons, around the baby's head to pull it out. This system served several purposes: pregnant women experienced less pain during labor; the hospital staff appreciated caring for less noisy patients; and physicians controlled the whole birthing process. At this time, it was thought that the baby was not greatly affected by drugs given to the mother.

Betty oli todennäköisesti twiglight-unessa.



The use of anesthetics dramatically changed the experience of childbirth and also facilitated widespread efforts in the 1910s to upgrade obstetrical practice and eliminate midwives. Physicians began experimenting with new forms of anesthesia like scopolamine, a drug with amnesiac properties that suppressed a patient's memory of painful contractions and created a state known as "twilight sleep," as well as various forms of spinal anesthetic. Following the publication of an article on scopolamine in McClure's Magazine in 1914, a national movement of women who advocated the adoption of twilight sleep methods by American obstetricians saw the use of scopolamine as an opportunity to control their birthing experience. Their strategy ultimately backfired as scopolamine was found to be extremely dangerous to both mother and child. After widespread use until the 1960s, the demand for painless childbirth was ultimately met by physicians, but at the price of many women losing control of the birthing experience by being put to sleep with a variety of drugs that could only be administered under the expertise of hospital attendants.

En tajua miksi ei ole kehitetty parempia lääkkeitä ja miksei naisille tarjota erilaisia vaihtoehtoja synnyttämiseen, että kukin saisi douppausta sen mukaan mikä itsestä tuntuu parhaalta. Miksi sen pitää olla niin helvetillistä. Ja miksei saa keisarinleikkausta jos haluaa. Miksei kukaan aja näissä asioissa naisen oikeuksia?

vaan aina riski. Eli ei sitä sulta kielletä pelkästään kiusallaan...

Lähinnä sivuvaikutuksiksi listataan se, että äiti ei muistanut synnytystä (onko se muka huono puoli?) ja se että lapset oli uneliaita. No joo, tuo jälkimmäinen voi olla vakava jos oikeasti pysyviä hermostollisia vaikutuksia (tuskin).

Ja luulis että tähän päivään mennessä olis osattu valmistaa myös sellaisia huumaavia aineita joista ei ole haittaa lapselle. Jos olis haluttu.

At this time, it was thought that the baby was not greatly affected by drugs given to the mother.