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In any society, the way a woman gives birth and the kind of care given to her and the baby points as sharply as an arrowhead to the key values of the culture.

Sheila Kitzinger

In achieving the depersonalization of childbirth and at the same time solving the problem of pain, our society may have lost more than it has gained. We are left with the physical husk; the transcending significance has been drained away.

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All that is needed for the majority of labors to go well is a healthy, pregnant woman who has loving support in labor, self-confidence, and attendants with infinite patience.

Sheila Kitzinger

For far too many, pregnancy and birth is still something that happens to them rather than something they set out consciously and joyfully to do themselves

Sheila Kitzinger

Sheila Kitzinger

Sheila Kitzinger

Born: March 29, 1929

Died: April 11, 2015 (aged 86)

Bio: Sheila Helena Elizabeth Kitzinger was a British natural childbirth activist and author on childbirth and pregnancy.

Known for:

The Complete Book of Pregnancy (1980)
Birth crisis (2006)
The New Pregnancy and Childbirth (1997)
Rediscovering Birth (2000)
Birth your way (1991)

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