NEW YORK (AP) — When Elisabeth Bing became interested in childbirth techniques in the 1950s, women were often heavily medicated, dads were generally nowhere near the delivery room and expectant ...

Since the 1950s, when the Lamaze childbirth method was introduced to the United States, it's been understood that the method enabled many women to go through childbirth without anesthesia or other ...

For much of the 20th century, the childbirth process in the United States didn’t invite a lot of active participation from parents. Mothers in labor were given heavy doses of drugs, and fathers were ...

Medicalized childbirth and natural childbirth -- The Soviet method, 1936-51 -- "Science knows no borders" : psychoprophylaxis in France, 1951-56 -- "Passionate controversies" : conflict and change ...

Our Lamaze childbirth preparation group met weekly that spring of 1972 in the living room of a second-floor city apartment, the doubled-sash windows swabbed with lemony-green pinwheels of unfurling ...

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