Letter: Mother knows best on birthing

REGARDING the article "Antenatal class breathing tips run out of puff" (11 July), for all too many years our NHS has got it extremely wrong. Puffing and panting, lying on your back, is the worst possible way to give birth. It causes unnecessary complications for the mother-to-be, who certainly doesn't need any more distress, not forgetting to mention the poor baby.

It's good to see mothers-to-be given the choice of what nature intended: a natural birth without non-logical interference.

A woman does not need breathing exercises to give birth; just leave her and her baby-to-be alone, and she will get on with it in her own natural way.

The interference of health gurus is no more than abusein wanting to control women in everything that they do.

Charles Linskaill, Edinburgh