Forget Childbirth

The Longest Shortest Time

Hillary Frank | QCODE

Health & Fitness, Sexuality, Parenting, Kids & Family

4.8 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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For generations, women elected to forget the pain of childbirth with help from powerful drugs called twilight sleep. Author Randi Hutter Epstein helps us shed light on an (intentionally) forgotten history. To join the conversation, go to longestshortesttime.com! Sign up for our newsletter. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. This episode is brought to you by Jergens Wet Skin Moisturizer, Life on the Fast Track podcast, Mr. Clean Magic Eraser, Juice Beauty (code: LONGSHORT20), Molekule (code: LONGSHORT), Simple Contacts (code: LONGSHORT). Use the links and codes here for a special discount.

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0:00.0	The other day I was watching the TV show The Crown.
0:09.4	It's a Netflix drama about the life of Queen Elizabeth II, you know the current Queen
0:14.1	of England.
0:15.1	And the scene I was watching was set in February 1960.
0:19.2	The Queen was preparing to give birth to her third child while we're climbing in bed,
0:24.1	wearing a pink night gown.
0:26.6	Others of doctors and nurses roll into Buckingham Palace and I'm nodding along like,
0:32.0	okay, Queen's into home birth and then they give her the shot.
0:38.4	Some twilight sleep, ma'am.
0:40.8	Thank you.
0:42.6	Oh, twilight sleep.
0:46.4	I've heard of that.
0:48.3	The nurses draw the curtains.
0:50.2	The Queen slowly closes her eyes.
0:53.0	The camera lens blurs.
0:55.4	And here in contrast to the politeness of the proceedings, the modern viewer knows what's
1:01.2	about to happen.
1:03.6	Childbirth, you know, amniotic fluid, nausea, bruising, tearing.
1:08.6	It's no tea time.
1:10.9	You're left to imagine what's happening to the Queen's body while she lies there, not
1:15.8	fully conscious.
1:17.9	Her husband holds his cigar in the next room, cut to metal forceps.
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