The movement for Family Centered Maternity Care is several decades old. Interested readers may want to consult Celeste R. Phillips‘ book Family-Centered Maternity Care some of which can be read on Google Books. Phillips, a pioneer in the field, defines FCMC as “a way of providing care for women and their families that integrates pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum, and infant care into the continuum of the family life cycle as normal, healthy life events.” She developed the following 10 principles for FCMC…

http://www.socialmedicine.org/2009/01/19/alternative-health-care/family-centered-maternity-care/