Question

Having labor and delivery take place with the husband or partner present as a coach is an example of how hospitals are finding ways to ____________ childbirth.

Answer 1

I believe the answer is: Humanize
During the childbirth, women most likely experience the most excruciating physical pain that they ever felt in their life, followed by mental stress and pretty high chance of death.
Medical workers and encouragement from a partner, would reduce all negative things above and increase the chance of successful childbirth.