Apple: Sex, Drugs, Motherhood and the Recovery of the Feminine

Initially, I planned a straightforward book about maternal feminism and, whilst researching a chapter, stumbled across a piece of information that had a domino effect and led to my turfing the work I'd done and beginning again. The piece of information in question was that scopolamine, one of the two primary ingredients of early obstetric drug cocktail Twilight Sleep, was both an hallucinogen and a sweat retardant. Apple evolved from that point.

For the past 150 years, babies have literally been born tripping.

I was in shock. Cultural movements and related ideologies suddenly fell into place, as did the shift in the maternal paradigm.