Lamaze - Empowering Childbirth Educators, Transforming Birth
Empowering Childbirth Educators, Transforming Birth. As the trusted leader in childbirth education for over 60 years, Lamaze equips childbirth educators with the expertise they need to empower parents from pregnancy to parenthood. Learn More
6 Healthy Birth Practices - Lamaze
Download the Lamaze Healthy Birth Practice Paper, available in eleven languages, to learn about how upright and "gravity-neutral" positions benefit both you and your baby. Learn how to keep your birth as natural as possible if you have to use directed pushing.
What is Lamaze?
Birth can safely take place in homes, birth centers and hospitals. Evidence-based care helps improve birth outcomes. Lamaze childbirth education empowers women to make informed choices in healthcare and take responsibility for their health, and to trust their ability to give birth.
Educators and Birth Professionals - Lamaze
Lamaze childbirth education offers healthy birth practices, teaching healthy pregnancy and safe, natural birth.
What is a Safe and Healthy Birth? - Lamaze
The Lamaze Six Healthy Birth Practices. The WHO identifies four maternity care practices, and Lamaze childbirth experts add two more—(marked with an asterisk *)—that are tried-and-true ways to make birth as safe and healthy as possible for pregnant people around the world.
Classes & Tools - Lamaze
Childbirth Classes: Why Prepare? From our book to our classes, with the Lamaze Six Healthy Birth Practices as the science-backed foundation, we cover the safest and healthiest options without judgement.
Welcome To Lamaze
Lamaze childbirth education offers healthy birth practices, teaching healthy pregnancy and safe, natural birth.
Find a Lamaze Class
Lamaze childbirth education offers healthy birth practices, teaching healthy pregnancy and safe, natural birth.
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Birth can safely take place in homes, birth centers and hospitals. Evidence-based care helps improve birth outcomes. Lamaze childbirth education empowers women to make informed choices in healthcare and take responsibility for their health, and to trust their ability to give birth.
Teach Lamaze Classes
Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educators (LCCE educators) help families cope with fears and empower them with evidence-based information about labor and birth. See for yourself why some of our educators became Lamaze certified: