article_snippet: The couple went on to have nine children, two of The couple born with the assistance of chloroform .
article_snippet: Having borne nine children, Queen Victoria became an expert at childbirth and is said to have persuaded Prince Albert to attend the births, using chloroform as a pain relief for eighth and ninth children.
article_snippet: By 1914, pain control during labour was an option, although one technique, using a morphine-type drug called Twilight Sleep, which knocked women  out and erased the memory of what women  'd gone through.
highlights_snippet: Twilight Sleep drugs meant women delivered in a stupor with no memory .
  