title: Promoting, protecting, and supporting normal birth.
abstract: This column discusses ways in which childbirth educators can promote, protect, and support normal birth to help make it the standard.
authors.affiliation: J udith L othian is a childbirth educator in Brooklyn, New York, and the Chair of the Lamaze International Certification Council. She is also an associate professor at the College of Nursing at Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey.
authors.forename: Judith A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Lothian