Obstetrician whose work in a French hospital and then in London led to a revolution in how mothers are treated in labour The pioneering French obstetrician Michel Odent, who has died aged 95, spent ...

Michel Odent has moved from being the benign natural-birth pioneer to a doomsayer predicting that caesarean sections will increase autism spectrum disorders and change humanity on an evolutionary ...

Michel Odent, a French obstetrician whose natural childbirth innovations, including homelike delivery rooms and birthing pools, aimed to make new mothers feel calm and secure, died Aug. 19 in London.

Meet the man trying to change the way women give birth around the world Dr Michel Odent wants men out of delivery rooms, pregnant women off drugs no one fully understands and for doctors to stop ...

When I arrived in Great Britain last week, the most talked-about health topic in the British press concerned fathers-to-be. Should they or shouldn’t they be in the delivery room? It was a discussion ...

In 1977, a state hospital near Paris began quietly changing the way women gave birth. Obstetrician Dr Michel Odent believed that childbirth had become too medicalised and he wanted a more natural ...

Could there be a common experience that divides women more than childbirth? No two labours are ever the same, yet each one is such a momentous event that decades later mothers - grandmothers – relish ...

Women are losing the capacity to give birth and breastfeed, according to a French doctor. Leading obstetrician Michel Odent claims that the number of women now given drugs or surgery during labour ...

In the 1970s, obstetrician Dr Michel Odent helped bring about a revolution in how women give birth - using water. Witness on BBC World Service Originally published on 1 August 2017 💡 Watch more ...

IN the 1970s, while his colleagues were plugging in their new electronic fetal monitors, French obstetrician Dr. Michel Odent was encouraging mothers to give birth squatting in silent, dimly lit rooms ...

His innovations, including homelike delivery rooms and birthing pools, were based on his belief that “human birth cannot work as long as a woman is thinking.” By Adam Nossiter Michel Odent, a French ...