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 ...

Pregnancy today looks very different from what it was like in our grandmothers’ time. Modern medicine, social progress, and ...

Penny Simkin, searching for a part-time job in the late 1960s, spotted a help-wanted ad for people to teach expecting parents about childbirth at Seattle-area hospitals. Her qualifications included ...

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