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 ...

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

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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) - A physical therapist who popularized the Lamaze method of childbirth in the United States and helped change the way women and doctors approached the delivery room has died at her New ...