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====Who developed Twilight Sleep?====
Twilight Sleep was the product of two German physicians--Dr. Bernhardt Kronig and Dr. Karl Gauss. They developed the procedure in 1906 to alleviate the pain of childbirth. Their development did not occur in a vacuum. Twilight sleep "contributed to changing childbirth from an at home process to a hospital procedure and increased the use of anesthetics in obstetrics," and it was developed several years after Dr. Richard von Steinbüchel suggested the use of scopolamine as an anesthetic for childbirth.<ref>Jessica Pollesche, "Twilight Sleep," The Embryo Project, 2018 [https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/twilight-sleep].</ref>
[[File:3zch8l8unsiy.jpg|thumbnail|left|250px|This image shows how women would be prepared for Twilight birth. Eyes were covered and arms were restrained in order for physicians to maintain control.]]
