"Lamaze Method"

Cuttings, articles, correspondence, etc, relating to this method of "painless childbirth", 1953-1954.

1953-1954

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Received from Frank Bamping, who was involved in arranging Lamaze's visit to London in 1953 and the showing of his film

PP/GDR, GC/72 also deal with "painless" childbirth.

The Lamaze method is a means of painless childbirth without drugs or anaesthesia promulgated by Dr Fernand Lamaze, head of the Maternity Department of the Centre de Sante Pierre Rouge, which was maintained by the French Metalworkers Union. He derived the idea from a visit to the USSR made with a French medical delegation in 1951, during which he observed psychoprophylaxis in childbirth based upon Pavlovian principles.