title: Birth without violence: a medical controversy.
abstract: A study of the Leboyer method of childbirth, using six experimental, six control infants, is presented. The hypothesis, increased alertness will be observed in Leboyer infants in the immediate postdelivery period, was upheld.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001364:Awareness; D002652:Child Behavior; D002657:Child Development; D036861:Delivery, Obstetric / Q000379:methods*; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D011247:Pregnancy