Prenatal and Obstetrical Care in Lebensborn

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Prenatal and Obstetrical Care in Lebensborn

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Post by Stephanie625 » 06 Jul 2014, 22:17

I have not been able to find any work looking at the actual prenatal care in the Lebensborn, other than the note that Himmler designed prenatal care routines. Any information on such would be appreciated.

In the US, for example, it was customary at the time to sedate mothers for labor and delivery (twilight anesthesia). Was this the custom in Germany?

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Post by Stephanie625 » 06 Jul 2014, 22:24

Looks like maybe, on the anesthesia:

The movement for "twilight sleep," or labor under anesthesia, began in Germany in the early twentieth century and soon spread to England and America. Upper- and middle-class women abandoned their midwives in order to be anesthetized with scopolamine and other drugs during childbirth. The potential danger that accompanied the use of anesthesia required a physician in attendance in a hospital setting. Women's erratic behavior under the anesthesia compelled their attendants to tether them to the hospital bed. Moreover, the mothers' delirious state made them totally unaware of the birth process. In addition, many infants of anesthetized mothers suffered from neonatal depression. By 1900, in the United States and Britain 50 percent of physician-assisted births involved the use of chloroform or ether in a hospital. A 1997 report by British researcher Irvine Loudon found that hospital deliveries rose from 24 percent of all births in 1932 to over 54 percent in 1946.

http://www.faqs.org/childhood/Me-Pa/Obs ... ifery.html


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