Okay so I’m sure not all women gave birth this way in the 60s, but I know a LOT did.

She told me that when she went into labor, she went to the hospital, they strapped her down to the hospital bed, put her to sleep and she woke up with her baby.

That sounds absolutely insane to me 😅

I looked it up and apparently the “twilight” drug was very popular during the 60s and 70s for births.

She said “I never pushed, I went to sleep and my body just gave birth”. Wild.

She also said that formula was pushed way more than breastfeeding so her doctor prescribed her medicine to dry up her milk supply before it came in.

Have you ever asked your grandma about her birth story?

Edit: for those of you that don’t think this is terrifying, and that it sounds “ideal” for birth, it’s not just a pretty picture of peacefully going to sleep and waking up to your baby in your arms.

“Twilight sleep: A term applied to the combination of analgesia (pain relief) and amnesia (loss of memory) produced by a mixture of morphine and scopolamine ("scope") given by a hypodermic injection (an injection under the skin)”

You are given injections of drugs that make you stay awake but don’t remember staying awake and thrashing about while giving birth (hence strapping you to the bed).

Zero informed consent, no idea what is happening to you.