Twilight Sleep and Obstetrics

The Real Story of Twilight Sleep and How it Shaped Obstetrics and Hospital Birth The Glitch Francis Carmody was the first American woman after the McClures article to give birth in Freiburg, taking her OB with her. Her first birth experience and lengthy recovery had been traumatic. The delivery in Freiburg of her second child […]

The Real Story of Twilight Sleep and How it Shaped Obstetrics and Hospital Birth How It Began In 1913 two female reporters from McClures Magazine in New York, Marguerite Tracy & Constance Leupp, went to the Frauenklink in Freiburg Germany to witness and write about “Dammerschlaf,” the apparent miracle of Painless Childbirth. The Frauenklink was