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Le bébé est un mammifère
Michel Odent, auteur et obstétricien reconnu, est à l’origine de l’évolution des pratiques d’accouchement (maisons de naissance, accouchement dans l’eau, accompagnement par une doula, etc.). Il prend le contre-pied des pratiques surmédicalisées, parfois traumatiques, de l’accouchement classique.
S’appuyant sur notre dimension animale, il détaille les besoins primordiaux des femmes lors de la mise au monde, et réaffirme le nécessaire respect des comportements instinctifs de la mère et du nouveau-né au cours des premières semaines de vie. Ce texte référence en matière d’accouchement naturel et de périnatalité, offre au lecteur toutes les clés pour faire ses choix en conscience, et propose des pistes pour l’hôpital de demain.
S’appuyant sur notre dimension animale, il détaille les besoins primordiaux des femmes lors de la mise au monde, et réaffirme le nécessaire respect des comportements instinctifs de la mère et du nouveau-né au cours des premières semaines de vie. Ce texte référence en matière d’accouchement naturel et de périnatalité, offre au lecteur toutes les clés pour faire ses choix en conscience, et propose des pistes pour l’hôpital de demain.
128 pages, Pocket Book
Published January 4, 2023
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About the author
Michel Odent
121 books83 followersFor several decades Michel Odent has been instrumental in influencing the history of childbirth and health research.
As a practitioner he developed the maternity unit at Pithiviers Hospital in France in the 1960s and '70s. He is familiarly known as the obstetrician who introduced the concept of birthing pools and home-like birthing rooms. His approach has been featured in eminent medical journals such as Lancet, and in TV documentaries such as the BBC film Birth Reborn. With six midwives he was in charge of about one thousand births a year and could achieve ideal statistics with low rates of intervention. After his hospital career he practiced home birth.
As a researcher he founded the Primal Health Research Center in London (UK), which focuses upon the long-term consequences of early experiences. An overview of the Primal Health Research data bank ( www.birthworks.org/primalhealth) clearly indicates that health is to a great extent shaped during the primal period (from conception until the first birthday). It also suggests that the way we are born has long-term consequences in terms of sociability, aggressiveness or, otherwise speaking, capacity to love.
Michel Odent has developed a preconceptional program (the "accordion method") in order to minimize the effects of intrauterine and milk pollution by synthetic fat soluble chemicals such as dioxins, PCBs, etc. His other research interests are the non-specific long term effects on health of early multiple vaccinations.
Author of approximately 50 scientific papers, Odent has 11 books published in 21 languages to his name. In his books he developed the art of turning traditional questions around, looking at the question of “how to develop good health” rather than at that of “how to prevent disease”, and at the question of “how the capacity to love develops”, rather than at that of “how to prevent violence”. His books The Scientification of Love and The Farmer and the Obstetrician raise urgent questions about the future of our civilizations. His latest book ('The Caesarean') has been published in April 2004.
As a practitioner he developed the maternity unit at Pithiviers Hospital in France in the 1960s and '70s. He is familiarly known as the obstetrician who introduced the concept of birthing pools and home-like birthing rooms. His approach has been featured in eminent medical journals such as Lancet, and in TV documentaries such as the BBC film Birth Reborn. With six midwives he was in charge of about one thousand births a year and could achieve ideal statistics with low rates of intervention. After his hospital career he practiced home birth.
As a researcher he founded the Primal Health Research Center in London (UK), which focuses upon the long-term consequences of early experiences. An overview of the Primal Health Research data bank ( www.birthworks.org/primalhealth) clearly indicates that health is to a great extent shaped during the primal period (from conception until the first birthday). It also suggests that the way we are born has long-term consequences in terms of sociability, aggressiveness or, otherwise speaking, capacity to love.
Michel Odent has developed a preconceptional program (the "accordion method") in order to minimize the effects of intrauterine and milk pollution by synthetic fat soluble chemicals such as dioxins, PCBs, etc. His other research interests are the non-specific long term effects on health of early multiple vaccinations.
Author of approximately 50 scientific papers, Odent has 11 books published in 21 languages to his name. In his books he developed the art of turning traditional questions around, looking at the question of “how to develop good health” rather than at that of “how to prevent disease”, and at the question of “how the capacity to love develops”, rather than at that of “how to prevent violence”. His books The Scientification of Love and The Farmer and the Obstetrician raise urgent questions about the future of our civilizations. His latest book ('The Caesarean') has been published in April 2004.
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December 25, 2025
Difficile de mettre une note sur ce qui est à la fois un documentaire et un essai. Beaucoup d'arguments fouillés et étayés par les recherches de l'auteur. Mais également beaucoup d'injonctions. Donc à lire en ayant les deux cerveaux (l'ancien et le nouveau 😜) allumés et chacun-e saura faire le tri des informations à s'approprier ou à laisser
December 22, 2023
Je m’attendais à qch de plus scientifique et de moins spéculatif.
Il y a de bonnes idées, mais la plupart des paragraphes m’évoquaient un sentiment d’étonnement.
Il est petit, ça a valu la peine de le lire, mais à consommer avec précaution, selon moi.
Il y a de bonnes idées, mais la plupart des paragraphes m’évoquaient un sentiment d’étonnement.
Il est petit, ça a valu la peine de le lire, mais à consommer avec précaution, selon moi.
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