Birth Without Violence In Frederick Leboyer's Birth Without Violence

Birth without violence is what Frederick Leboyer always dreamed of, for sake of both the mother and the baby. Frederick Leboyer, author of the book, Birth without Violence: Revised Edition of the Classic, is a French physician whose adopted natural birth methods around the world to ease the process of childbirth (Wolfe). His first book was written twenty-five years ago and was loved and admired by mothers that he revised it into a new edition; though, it was immensely feared by medical professionals (Leboyer vii). In the revised book, Leboyer takes on the poetic aspect as he uses satire and opposing viewpoints to portray his message. He hopes once everyone “becomes aware of the ordeal it is for the baby to be “pushed and forced into this world”, they will meet the young...adventurer...with more sensitivity...intelligence…and respect” (Leboyer vii). Birth is something that every human being encounters and Leboyer states that …show more content…
It seems as if they, of course love being born because it is the time they get to start their great adventures in life; coming out into the bright light and cold air from a dark, warm area is what truly is brutal for those poor little souls. One perspective is “...babies don’t feel anything”, where the opposing viewpoint argues that “young children suffer agonies about things that seem quite trivial to us because they feel a thousand times more than we do” (Leboyer 3-4). Babies are human too, so they certainly do feel everything and anything around them; they may not totally understand what is going on, but they have at least a bit of consciousness. Birth causes an extent of different feelings and emotions, as the baby is not sure what to make of some of them; the world is something new for the babies, where many things can occur, reasoning being why a child often is not quite calm as they enter the