Forget epidurals and gas and air for a second. Decades ago, some women were given a cocktail of drugs to knock them into a state between sleep and wakefulness while they gave birth. When they came to, ...

Scopolamine is a hypnotic drug made from henbane. As scopolamine hydrobromide solution it is widely used for inducing twilight sleep at childbirth, for quieting maniacs, drug addicts, alcoholics. Some ...

Dr. Funk-Brentano of Paris is credited with the discovery of new methods of “twilight sleep” (painless childbirth) differing from the scopolanium method now widely in use. They consist of injections ...

Venvi Art Gallery is pleased to present "Twilight Sleep" by Carrie Ann Baade. For her debut solo show at Venvi, Baade conveys hypnotizing, beautiful and at times haunting imagery through her paintings ...