NEW YORK --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 parents had ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — 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 parents had ...

When Mercedes Irving, pregnant with her first child, enrolled in a childbirth education class, other women tried to talk her out of it. “All my friends told me it was a waste of time,” said Irving, 34 ...

Hendersonville, N.C. (September 12, 2012) – Beth Cassidy, B.S.N., R.N.C.-O.B., L.C.C.E., director of The Baby Place at Park Ridge Health, has been selected as a ...

My “focal point” sits on a side table, a small bronze reminder of my first childbirth experience some 29 years ago in the era of Lamaze. The six-week preparation for mothers-to-be included picking an ...

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 ...

Elisabeth Bing, the natural childbirth pioneer who co-founded Lamaze International died on Friday in her New York home. She was 100. “Our founder and the mother of childbirth education in America ...