
24/08/2025
Sad to hear of the passing of an amazing man. Michel Odent was a true childbirth pioneer, who understood and honoured the physiology of birth. He promoted normality, believed in the capacity of women to birth their babies without intervention and introduced water birth into the birth place.
As a student midwife I was fortunate to attend one of his lectures, it blew me away. When focussing on learning the nuts and bolts of midwifery as a student, he brought the magic and the spirituality into the space✨ I highly recommend his book Childbirth in the age of Plastic, a thought provoking and often disconcerting read about the potential evolutionary changes to women and birth, should we continue down the path of seemingly constant intervention.
A great man indeed ❤️