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Dr. Pierre Vellay is a French obstetrician - gynecologist and author best known for his book, Childbirth Without Pain published in 1960 and written by him, Aline Vellay, et al.

He was a partner of Dr. Ferdinand Lamaze and practiced the "Lamaze" method or psychoprophylaxis as a way to educate pregnant women and their partners in breathing and exercise techniques intended to alleviate pain and avoid pain medications. He practiced at a hospital known as Chateau du Belvedere near Porte Saint Cloud in Boulogne-Billancourt near Paris which was developed as a hospital for childbirth of pregnant patients screened to be unlikely to need surgical intervention or blood transfusion.

https://smile.amazon.com/Childbirth-Without-Pain-Pierre-Vellay/dp/0525079939/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2NES0CU2VV836&keywords=Pierre+Vellay&qid=1661543638&s=digital-text&sprefix=pierre+vellay%2Cdigital-text%2C76&sr=1-1-catcorr

His childbirth educator was Dr. Zila Rennert, a Polish physician who became a childbirth coach after immigration to France.

Dr. Vellay and his wife, Aline, lived in Pierre Chareau's Maison de Verre on Rue St. Dominique in Paris, and he saw his office patients there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maison_de_Verre https://smile.amazon.com/Maison-Verre-Dominique-Vellay/dp/050051304X/ref=sr_1_2?crid=31UR66XNP4KIR&keywords=Maison+de+Verre+Vellay&qid=1661545852&s=digital-text&sprefix=maison+de+verre+vellay%2Cdigital-text%2C92&sr=1-2  (written by Dr. Vellay's daughter, Dominique Vellay).