Leboyer

Leboyer definition - medical

Le·boy·er (lə-bwä-yāˈ), Frederick Born 1918.

French obstetrician who developed a radical method of childbirth called “painless birth,” based on his idea that newborns have the ability to experience a full range of emotions.

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