FREDERICK LEBOYER

(Frédérick Leboyer)


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Being touched and caressed, being massaged, is food for the infant; food as necessary as minerals, vitamins, and proteins. Deprived of this food, the name of which is love, Babies would rather die. And often they do.
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This howling mouth, this head which rolls back and tries to escape.
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Yes, we should not forget that the five senses are one. And all of them extensions of the skin
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Yes, hell exists. It is not a fairy tale. One indeed burns there. This hell is not at the end of life. It is here. At the beginning. Hell is what the infant must experience before he gets to us.
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Birth may be a matter of a moment, but it is a unique one.
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Imagining birth as the baby experiences it was an entirely new way of looking at it.
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These hands which stretch out, implore, beg, then rise to the head in a gesture of calamity.
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It is through our hands that we speak to the child. That we communicate.
Touch is the child's first language, understanding comes long after feeling
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This tragic brow, these closed eyes, eyebrows raised and knotted.
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The one you confront in Yoga is yourself. All that is rigid and stiff in you, all that says 'No.
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© Andreas Bohnenstengel (1970–)
Frederick Leboyer
  • Born: November 1, 1918
  • Died: May 25, 2017
  • Nationality: French
  • Profession: Obstetrician, Author, Activist
Biography

Frédérick Leboyer was a French obstetrician and author. He is best known for his 1974 book, Birth Without Violence, which popularized gentle birthing techniques, in particular, the practice of immersing newborn infants in a small tub of warm water — known as a "Leboyer bath" — to help ease the transition from the womb to the outside world. He also advocated low lighting and quiet in a warm room to limit the supposed shock of birth,[Reynolds, Concise Encyclopedia of Special Education, 138] and that a newborn be laid on its mother's stomach and allowed to bond, instead of being taken away for tests.

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