title: Spiritual healing for infertility, pregnancy, labour, and delivery.
abstract: Spiritual healing has been reported anecdotally to be of benefit for most of the ills of mankind. Research in the past few decades amply confirms this assertion. This paper discusses the applications of healing for infertility, pregnancy, labour and delivery. Though healers in the UK are forbidden by law to give healing around the time of birth without the supervision of a midwife or other medical personnel healers are increasingly working alongside conventional carers in doctors' surgeries and hospitals. There is a definite place for healers to participate in bringing life into the world. Healers and grateful parents report that labour and delivery are eased when healing is given and that babies born after receiving healing seem more alert and 'connected' to those around them.
authors.forename: D J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Benor
mesh_terms: D036861:Delivery, Obstetric / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D018939:Holistic Nursing; D006801:Humans; D007246:Infertility / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D007743:Labor, Obstetric / Q000523:psychology*; D008602:Mental Healing; D010327:Pastoral Care / Q000379:methods; D011247:Pregnancy