I was interviewing author Nghi Vo on her Gatsby revisionary fantasy book The Chosen and the Beautiful. She talked about how as an adult, she realized Daisy was implied to have been traumatized by the “twilight sleep” birth that was apparently touted as a wonderful invention that erases all the pain and you wake up with your baby in your arms.
2026-06-28 16:10:46
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Pumpkin :
I always thought this is what anesthesia is.
2026-06-27 21:15:09
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M123🇵🇸🇿🇦💜 :
the first time I heard about this was om the rookie where Angela asks why can't we just do the twilight sleep thing they did back in the 90s and nyla responds I asked it's grossly unethical it's very crazy that someone's grandmother could have went through this it shows how little women are treated in health care
2026-06-28 07:43:44
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Hallas :
I did not know that existed. Thank you for educating me, because that was… I don’t actually know what to say beside what the actual f*ck
2026-06-27 20:30:35
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miss.talks.a.lot.2.0 :
HELP NO WHAT THE HELL
2026-06-28 03:27:45
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daria.ab :
I had it for eye surgery. It was ok. But was angry after second one
2026-06-28 04:27:44
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PurplePickledDreams :
my grandmother had this with my dad. it lasted in rural areas into the 60s. my other grandmother had it with one child but not the other.
2026-07-28 20:48:56
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Kalea 🖤 :
It’s actually a little bit worse than just these details, when that advocate for twilight sleep birth passed away the association tried desperately to bury it and even went as far as calling her a “weak constitution woman”
2026-06-28 03:32:01
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madi 🍃 :
Unrelated but I just realised how much britt looks like Yvonne omg
2026-06-27 20:43:44
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shamn :
is s3 dropped alr?
2026-06-28 18:48:36
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... :
😳 always learning new things here .. you're amazing, we need to know this to learn from history and not repeat it ❤️
2026-07-09 09:00:06
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escalestrie :
But it wasn't unethical for you to be out during labour, it was unethical the way they were doing it.
2026-06-27 23:20:28
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SoftlyProblematic :
Inability to access memory doesn't mean the memory isn't there and it definitely doesn't mean the brain and body isn't affected by what happened
2026-06-28 01:49:29
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Emerald <3 :
I’m 22 weeks and the appeal of a pain-free birth sounds glorious. It’s unfortunately just not realistic even if you can’t remember the birth. I’m sure those women lived with unconscious trauma for the rest of their lives because they were sold a lie💔💔
2026-06-27 22:01:19
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Paola Escandón 🇲🇽 :
My grandma had all her births like this, she once told us that she thought it was barbaric to be awake for the birth of a child 😳
2026-06-27 21:53:04
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🥨𝖆𝖗𝖎𝖆★🎸🎧 :
As someone who hallucinates and blacks out when sick this would be my nightmare. Waking up with no memory is horrifying to me
2026-06-27 20:30:42
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Kyra Jameliah 📚🎬📺 :
Sidebar: kind of interesting how Bella had a mixture of Morphine and Vampire Venom and it had a similar effect where she experienced the pain, but was also severed from expressing it, only to wake up as a vampire , doomed to forget most of it
2026-06-27 21:27:19
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sentientsludge :
this happened in the outlander books, when she returned to her time in the late 1940's pregnant and they put her to sleep to give birth
2026-06-28 00:19:29
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Anna.Tallulah :
They did this to my dad when he was in the army
2026-06-28 10:45:40
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🦋 Phantom 🦋 :
Wouldn’t this be all surgery? Every time they put you out? You literally can’t be awake for most surgeries because of risk of shock.
2026-06-28 08:45:09
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༺✧༻ :
This is my worst fear….. that’s why I hate getting black out drunk.
2026-06-27 23:55:09
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stacysmom :
supposedly the late queen Elizabeth had this for all her births but somehow I can't imagine her getting treated like this, getting bound to the bed and everything
2026-06-28 05:19:11
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Pop Mart Villie :
I learned about this reading The Bell Jar as a teen. Bone-chilling stuff.
2026-06-27 22:53:19
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kolkol :
okay, why not use less seripus dose of opioids? the impact on the baby shpuld be minimal from one time semi-exposure so why dont they get some oxy ?
2026-06-27 20:49:22
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