Lamaze is a childbirth preparation method aimed at building confidence and teaching coping mechanisms for labor. Read more about the natural technique to decide whether it’s right for you. Lamaze is ...

Lamaze breathing was pioneered by French obstetrician Fernand Lamaze. In the 1950s, he championed psychoprophylaxis, a method for preparing pregnant women with physical and psychological training.

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

For more than 20 years, ever since “natural” childbirth became the preferred style of delivery, the six-week, 12-hour course in the Lamaze method was the rite of passage for many expectant parents.

Elisabeth Bing, the natural childbirth pioneer who popularized the Lamaze method in the United States, has died at age 100. Bing, born in a Berlin suburb on July 9, 1914, died on Friday at her home in ...

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