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Is there a real "truth serum"?

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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What Is Twilight Sleep?

The friberg method was developed by two doctors in Germany. It involved putting the woman giving birth into a state of ' twilight sleep' The idea is to knock them out, basically, while they have a baby. This would also reduce all the pain that theyre feeling during childbirth. But there were dangerous consequences to injecting pregnant people with things like morphine.

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