NATURAL CHILDBIRTH
Sir,-I write from a maternity hospital .where I have had a very’ happy natural birth. Its success I attribute largely to the education I received at the Mothers’ Classes ‘arranged by, the Wellington Parents’ Centre, where relaxation and breathing techniques, mothercraft andthe processes of pregnancy and labour are taught by experts. I therefore welcome your correspondent "Bruag’s" suggestion that a radio panel be selected from mothers who have had such education, so that listeners may hear a genuinely informed discussion on training for childbirth. As another correspondent, "Expetience," points out, the experts on this subject are those who have given it a fair trial. The term, "natural childbirth," however, is not used in these Wellington Mothers’ Classes, "Training for childbirth" is the accurate description, as the education given is designed to make labour easier for. all women, regardless of their doctor’s approach to the actual birth. Nevertheless, many women have confidently had their babies without analgesia or anaesthetics, although these are always available. As I write this I am listening to a woman crying out in labour. It is taking some of the joy from my own experience, as it seems so wrong that the vreat majority of New Zealand women
are still without the simple information and training which can help turn childbirth into a supreme achievement, and the happiest possible. beginning in life for mother and ¢hild together.
DARIEN
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 742, 2 October 1953, Page 5
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