a training program in natural childbirth, emphasizing breathing control and relaxation during labor together with the presence and encouraging assistance of the father
Origin:
after F. Lamaze, 20th-c. Fr physician, who developed it
See Lamaze in American Heritage Dictionary 4
adjective
Relating to or being a method of childbirth in which the expectant mother is prepared psychologically and physically to give birth without the use of drugs.
Origin:
Origin: After Fernand Lamaze (1890-1957), French physician