Childbirth Is Finally Getting The Cultural Treatment It Deserves

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Thu, 05/28/2015 - 2:15am

For much of the 20th century, childbirth existed in the realm of the unseen. Once the act of having a baby became medicalized, it was something that happened behind closed doors. Fathers were not allowed in the delivery room, and mothers were given a mixture of morphine and scopolamine that would induced "twilight sleep." They wouldn't feel pain.

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