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The majority of births now take place in isolation in hospital wards rather than at home.

Date: 1920s

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Birthing parents in hospitals are often given morphine and scopolamine–an amnesiac. Scopolamine creates "twilight sleep," which means that labor is experienced but not remembered. Regular hospital practice now includes strapping laboring people onto a table, on their backs, shaved and with an episiotomy.