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Pregnancy and Natural Childbirth Picture-Book

This book, measuring 27.5 cm x 36 cm was published in August 1978. The second page (publishing data) includes the following passages "Material by L. Ron Hubbard, Copyright", "International Issue Authority obtained stop", "Material by Frederick Leboyer Copyright© 1975 & 1978", "Translation Copyright by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.", "Original Copyright© 1974 by Editions Du Seuil".

Page iii, Introduction includes the following paragraph: "A course called "Effective Teaching" which I took at an international non-profit excellence-in-education organisation called Applied Scholastics, which teaches the educational methods of the American author and educator, L.Ron Hubbard, really opened my eyes to the importance of the definitions of words. Without first understanding what the words of the subject mean, real workable understanding in a subject is not possible!"

Page iv contains the Important Note, common in Scientology books of that era, including a quote from L. Ron Hubbard.

Page v contains only the following sentence, in slightly larger type: "When children become unimportant to a society, that society has forfeited its future.", and the signature L.Ron Hubbard.

Page vii is a dedication by Margaret Martin to L. Ron Hubbard and includes the passage: "philosopher, author, educator, humanitarian who first pioneered and researched gentle "non-violent" childbirth in his bestselling book Dianetics1. DIA (Greek) through, NOUS (Greek) mind, deals with a system of mental image pictures in relation to psychic (spiritual) trauma. The mental image pictures are believed on the basis of personal revelation to be comprising mental activity created and formed by the spirit, and not by the body or brain. (BPL 24 Sept 73 V) 2. Dn addresses the body. Thus Dn is used to knock out and erase illnesses, unwanted sensations, misemotion, somatics, pain, etc. Dn came before Scn. It disposed of body illness and the difficulties a thetan was having with his body. (HCOB 22 Apr 69)...more,® first published in 1950.