Humanizing birth involves several aspects such as respect for the physiological changes during labor and delivery, the concern with the biopsychosocial context in which the pregnant woman is inserted and the optimization ...

The process that involves childbirth and birth are often remarkable events in a woman's life and family. Although often depending on the type of assistance offered this event can be remembered as a traumatic experience ...

Biblical writings portray the experience of pain in childbirth as a process of purging the sin. In Genesis it is designated for women "I will greatly multiply thy suffering in pregnancy, in the midst of agony, you will ...