Nancy Bardacke is a nurse-midwife, mindfulness teacher, and founding director of the Mindfulness-Based Childbirth and Parenting (MBCP) Program, which she currently teaches at the UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine.
In this video from "Practicing Mindfulness & Compassion" conference on March 8, 2013, Nancy explains why mindfulness can mitigate the stress and pain of childbirth for both women and men.