Frédérick Leboyer

Frédérick Leboyer (born in 1918) is a Gynécologue and Obstétricien French. He is regarded as the precursor of the Accouchement soft known under the name of Méthode Leboyer. In the Parisian private clinic in which he worked, he established a series of conditions which allow the newborn a birth without useless Traumatisme. Leboyer proposes:

that the child can recover from the stress of the childbirth on the belly of the mother so that it continues to feel heat and the cardiac beat it;
that the Umbilical cord is cramp (tight with a grip) and tardily crossed (after having ceased beating) in order to facilitate and make less traumatic the passage to the pulmonary respiration;
that it is left a little time to the mother and the child “to know” and that the bath and the medical procedures Post-partum are carried out subsequently;
that, if possible, all the operations which imply the child should occur with much delicacy, by avoiding the abrupt noises, movements and the too intense lights;
that the rooms of childbirth must correspond to this requirement, they should be thus mediums comforting, isolated acoustically and without too intense lights.

Many of these indications were integrated today in a great number of departments of obstetrics of the hospitals of the whole world. One also owes in Frédérick Leboyer the introduction into the western world of the massage Néonatal.

He currently lives with London.

Pubkications

1975 - For a birth without violence
1976 - Shantala - a traditional art - the massage of the children
1979 - This light from which the child
1982 comes - the sacring of the birth

External bond

(IN) First chapter of the book " For a birth without violence"

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