A Labor of Love A celebration held at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University Archives on July 30, 2015, honored the life and work of Flora Hommel (March 16, 1928 – May 15, 2015). Speakers included archivist Erik Nordberg, Senator Carl Levin, historian Marsha Richmond, Judith Cawhorn, Michele… See More
While CWPEA, the organization, is no longer active, its history, the training materials, three decades of monthly newsletters, key correspondence of the movement that promoted the Lamaze (psychoprophylactic) method, along with thousands of mother-written birth reports, are housed in the Flora Hommel Papers at the archives of the Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University in Detroit. See More
Flora Suhd Hommel brought the Lamaze method of painless childbirth to Detroit and the US after returning from Paris where she had lived as a young adult from 1946 to 1953. She graduated from Wayne University with a BS and nursing degree in 1958, in order to promote the psychoprophylactic… See More