Abstract
Birth of a child into a family is among the most important interpersonal changes in adulthood. Due to rapid changes in Western society in recent years reduced at the expense of jobs and careers importance of motherhood.
In this article we try to summarize the history perspective on coping with labor pains in the second half of the 20th century in the context of socio-cultural world scale. We focus on the period from the 50th to 80th years, a period in which there were significant changes in the psychological understanding of labor pains at the medical profession, but also to the public.
This period witnessed the emphasis on the role of women and the birth pangs of psychology reflecting in the form of two similar psychological approaches: natural childbirth supported by British physician Grantly Dick-Read psychoprophylaxis established a Soviet neuropsychologist IZVelvovským, popularized in the West by French obstetrician Fernand Lamaze. Highlights some transnational influences and ethnic traits attributed to labor pains in France and the United States in the context of developments in the Soviet Union and Great Britain.
Describe ways how dynamic relationships between health professionals and patient could influence the changing social importance and value of labor. With the technical development of medicine, drug, increasing the use of epidural anesthesia and cesarean delivery in the late 20th and early 21st century, as expected, mothers and society, from medicine to think about whether the labor pain experience that we should accept or her avoided.