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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