Lamaze has been helping parents prepare for labor since the 1950s – and it's still one of the most popular childbirth classes today.

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 ...

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 ...

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

Patricia Trimble helps her daughter, Kristina Peters, who is due with twins in March, simulate breathing during labor as part of a Lamaze class at John Muir Women’s Health Center in Walnut Creek, ...

Her devotion to children and motherhood brought Maureen B. Pratt into her family’s medical practice. Certified as a Lamaze childbirth educator, she taught safe pregnancy, birthing and parenting ...

Doesn’t it seem like yesterday when your first child was born? To me, it does, and decades later, you recall the excitement — more appropriately called nervousness — that had been building as the “due ...

Brenda Seyer, Kathy Williams, Mary Meyer, Lee Stewart and Dodie Eisenhower, founding women of area childbirth preparation classes met at the Seyer's home recently Seyer and her husband, Mike, ...

Some natural options to deliver your baby. March 10, 2010— -- Here are five popular natural ways to having a baby. You should, of course, ask your doctor if you are considering any of these ...

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 ...