Dr. Grantly Dick-Read was a well known obstetrician who crafted a theory in the 1930's that natural childbirth isn't inherently painful. HOLD UP "Are you trying to tell me that a MAN, in the 30s, is attempting to convince me that pushing a child out of my vagina isn't painful?!" No, not quite. He theorized that fear=pain, and this theory has been proven time and time again. According to him the fear or anxiety that a woman feels while in labor causes her body to react in a wa