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Being upright during labour and birth can increase the available space within the pelvis by 28–30% giving more room to the baby for rotation and descent. There is also a 54% decreased incidence of foetal heart rate abnormalities when the mother is upright. [9]
Women giving birth in the upright position have been depicted in Asian, African, Pacific Islander, and Native American art. The birthing chair can be traced to Egypt in the year 1450 B.C.E. Pictured on the walls of The Birth House at Luxor, Egypt, is an Egyptian queen giving birth on a stool.
Most Amish women only go to a hospital to give birth when there is a known medical risk for her or the child, but some Amish women choose to go the hospital during labor for peace of mind. Two books have been written about Amish medical issues including their birthing practices: Dr. Frau: A Woman Doctor among the Amish by Grace Kaiser and House ...
An Alabama woman was forced to endure nearly 12 hours of excruciating labor alone in a jail cell as staff refused to take her to a hospital, according to a new federal civil rights lawsuit ...
A woman giving birth on a birth chair, from a work by German physician Eucharius Rößlin Icon Birth of Mary (detail). Russia, 17th century. In ancient Egypt, midwifery was a recognized female occupation, as attested by the Ebers Papyrus which dates from 1900 to 1550 BCE.
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Each year, complications from pregnancy and childbirth result in about 500,000 birthing deaths, seven million women have serious long-term problems, and 50 million women giving birth have negative health outcomes following delivery, most of which occur in the developing world. [5]
"The more accurate representations we have for the process of birth, the more we can normalize and celebrate what the human body goes through to bring a baby into the world," Cohen says.