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About Lamaze International

Lamaze is a guide, a resource parents can use to empower themselves throughout their pregnancy, to help them ease stresses and fears and understand the choices they have.

Every pregnancy is different, and we believe there’s no correct way to make the journey to parenthood. However, there are proven methods to help you get there. Our goal is to simplify and share the latest medical research, giving women the ability to become their own advocates.

Established in 1960 and headquartered in Washington D.C., Lamaze is a nonprofit organization that promotes a natural, healthy and safe approach to pregnancy, childbirth and early parenting. Knowing that pregnancy and childbirth can be demanding on a woman’s body and mind, Lamaze serves as a resource for information about what to expect and what choices are available during the childbearing years.

Lamaze education and practices are based on the best, most current medical evidence available. They can help reduce the use of unnecessary interventions and improve overall outcomes for mothers and babies. Working closely with their families, health care providers and Lamaze educators, millions of pregnant women have achieved their desired childbirth outcomes using Lamaze practices.

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Lamaze childbirth education is built on the Lamaze Healthy Birth Practices. These evidence-based practices, adapted from the World Health Organization, promote, protect and support natural, safe and healthy birth. Lamaze education upholds these fundamentals:

  • Lamaze supports evidence-based pregnancy, birth and parenting practices that are supported by research and experienced childbirth educators.

  • Lamaze guides you as you navigate all of your options, and their benefits and drawbacks.

  • Lamaze seeks to empower you as you explore how your body was designed for birth, and encourages you to work with your body’s natural abilities.

  • Lamaze provides strategies for comfort and coping with pain during labor, reducing unnecessary medical interventions, and receiving continuous support during labor and birth.

  • Lamaze encourages bonding between you and your baby, with the importance of skin-to-skin contact and time to get to know your new baby after birth.

Lamaze strives to provide parents with the information they need to make informed decisions. Because the more informed you become, the better you can prepare.