NEW YORK -- 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 York ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Elisabeth Bing, the natural child-birth 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 ...

“Our work was birth — the primal act of a woman’s life. A time fueled by instinct and by fear. Trusting our instinct can be what we fear most. Our actions are ours alone, and we must suffer their ...