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Margaret J. Gamper, a Chicago nurse who became a pioneer ofFrom: Dean Huffman (dean@thehuffpeople.net)Mon Apr 1 05:13:34 2002
CHICAGO (AP) - Margaret J. Gamper, a Chicago nurse who became a pioneer of modern natural childbirth, died March 18. She was 94. A native of Janesville, Wis., Gamper ran away from home at the age of 19 to go to nursing school in Chicago. After receiving her nursing degree, she went to work in Chicago hospitals as a maternity surgical assistant. The turning point in Gamper's career came when she noticed a woman giving birth who had not been anesthetized first. The common practice at the time was to anesthetize pregnant women before they gave birth. "Then she turned and grinned at me,'' Gamper said in an interview. ``She was relaxed and without pain. And, she had the joy of seeing her baby immediately at birth." Gamper started studying the work of Grantley Dick-Read, a British physician considered the founder of natural childbirth. She then started teaching the process to pregnant women. In teaching what came to be known in the United States as the Gamper method, she focused on helping women overcome the fear of childbirth. Her thinking was that it was the fear that created the pain. The method, considered radical at the time, has since evolved to encourage mothers to focus on contractions through abdominal breathing.
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