Childbirth is an experience provided to women and men for increasing their faith, spiritual maturity, and degree of unity. Dedicate your pregnancy and birth experiences to God through prayer and singing. Enlist fellow Saints to participate in a prayer calling tree. Inviting observers to the birth is discouraged. Anyone not involved in the labor, through massage, or forms of physical support, are observers and can be detrimental to the process.
Observers can also hinder adherence to modesty and propriety.
Dr. Michal Odent believes that the length of labor is proportional to the amount of observers present at delivery, and that includes medical staff. Childbirth is a time of Spiritual warfare. Satan will attack you, because of the opportunity for spiritual growth, and the main ground for his warfare is your mind, through which Satan attempts to instill fear. Sanctify, or set apart this birth experience for the glorification of God through faith and obedience. Overcome fear, distress and pain through applying the Atonement of Christ and submitting to the birth process, your husband, and to God's will, as per Christ's example when he submitted his will in the Garden of Gethsemene.