Kia Ora Martha
Thanks for clarifying the definition of
psychoprophylactic training for me. Janet.
--- Martha Livingston <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Hi, Kia Ora - Psychoprophylactic method of
> childbirth is the official
> name for what is now called Lamaze. Lamaze didn't
> actually create
> it; Soviet researchers did, and Lamaze, who worked
> at a left-wing
> union hospital in Paris, went there in the '50s. In
> fact, part of
> why the method wasn't readily accepted in the U.S.
> in the '50s was
> that it was seen as somehow communist - until Pope
> John XXIII gave
> his approval! So I think what she's calling herself
> is a childbirth
> educator training women in what we would call the
> Lamaze method.
> Best, Martha Livingston (New York; former childbirth
> educator)
>
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