Immediately after the Second World War the new Independent Jordanian government instituted the Ministry of Health which was to provide medical services for the local civil population. One important plan of the newly created ministry which was to be implemented in the next decades was aimed at creating a network of Maternal and Child Health centres in the country. As a result a college for the training of midwives and nurses was founded in Amman at the beginning of the 1950s and the first Faculty of Medicine was inaugurated at the Jordan University in 1972. Several governmental hospitals were built in the Kingdom and important efforts were made in order to train and control the activities of local dayyas (traditional birth attendants). By the 1990s, the Jordanian women not only had stopped giving birth at home but had become almost completely integrated into the local medical system at least in the domain of procreation. Moreover, since the end of the 1970s some international organizations and local NGOs have started to introduce in Jordan the concept of family planning. Although until recently the local authorities did not implement any policy in order to control the Kingdom’s population, during the last decades several Western concepts, technologies and practices related to reproduction have gradually penetrated into the Jordanian population. Today, the Jordanian Ministry of Health together with some local NGOs and charitable societies offers all Jordanian women free antenatal and postnatal care, counselling in sexual and reproductive health as well as free contraceptives. In this paper I will focus on the cultural and social implications of the diffusion of the biomedical model in the domain of reproduction. I will pay attention to ordinary childbirth practices and women’s attitudes towards biomedical institutions, concepts and technologies. In this framework I hope to show how Jordanian women, according to their social status and their education, accept, adjust to, refuse or resist the actual biomedical practices and the related ideas of procreation.