Frédéric Leboyer

This documentary examines childbirth practices in the United States through four couples experiencing pregnancy and delivery. Each case presents a different approach to birth, ranging from high-technology hospital procedures to alternative methods such as Leboyer and midwife-assisted childbirth.

When children are born, they cry. No, they are screaming. For what ? Would birth be as scary and terrifying for the child as giving birth was for the mother? This film answers. He says: yes, coming into the world is a torture, a terror for the child. But this film also says what must be done to transform this "arrival" so that a great shadow no longer comes to darken all the life that follows.

When children are born, they cry. No, they are screaming. For what ? Would birth be as scary and terrifying for the child as giving birth was for the mother? This film answers. He says: yes, coming into the world is a torture, a terror for the child. But this film also says what must be done to transform this "arrival" so that a great shadow no longer comes to darken all the life that follows.