Healthy Birth Practice #5: Avoid Giving Birth on Your Back and Follow Your Body's Urge to Push

Curl, Marilyn

doi:10.1891/1058-1243.28.2.104

J Perinat Educ

2019

DOI: 10.1891/1058-1243.28.2.104

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Healthy Birth Practice #5: Avoid Giving Birth on Your Back and Follow Your Body's Urge to Push

Marilyn Curl¹

Abstract: Tradition, not evidence, continues to drive the management of the second stage of labor in most hospitals. This is an overview of current evidence associated with best practices for healthy outcomes for mothers and babies.

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“…Changing the culture of birth has not been easy but appears inevitable as evidence-based care becomes the gold standard for safe, healthy birth”. 9 …”

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Inviting Newton to Visit the Delivery Room the Role of Gravity During Childbirth

Stark¹,

Mynbaev²,

Malvasi³

et al. 2023

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Throughout history, the upright position was the norm for most deliveries. However, due to cultural reasons, this practice was changed in the 17th century, and since then, the majority of deliveries have been conducted with the parturient lying on her back. The aim of this review article is to challenge the nowadays recumbent birth position and to emphasize the added value of gravity to the childbirth. Physiologically there is a strong argument for delivering in an upright position due to the significant role of gravity. The baby’s presenting part does not move back between contractions as happens in today’s recumbent position when due to the anatomy of the pelvis, the presenting part moves uphill. In this position, the second stage is shorter, and the signal for active pushing occurs spontaneously. It is recommended that any parturient should be informed about the risks and benefits of each birthing option to decide the birthing position that suits her.

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“…Changing the culture of birth has not been easy but appears inevitable as evidence-based care becomes the gold standard for safe, healthy birth”. 9 …”

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confidence: 99%

Inviting Newton to Visit the Delivery Room the Role of Gravity During Childbirth

Stark¹,

Mynbaev²,

Malvasi³

et al. 2023

IJWH

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Safe Childbirth: A Call to Action

Lothian¹

2019

J Perinat Educ

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Since the publication of Lamaze's Six Healthy Birth Practice papers in 2014, there has been increasing concern with the safety of the current maternity care system. A doubling of the maternal mortality rate in the United States and the continued high cesarean rate, as well as ongoing research that supports physiologic birth and identifies the risks of interfering with the physiologic process, has resulted in updated guidelines for care and has spurred advocacy efforts to transform maternity care. This article presents a number of these advocacy efforts.

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Healthy Birth Practice #4: Avoid Interventions Unless They Are Medically Necessary

Lothian¹

2019

J Perinat Educ

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Maternity care in the United States is intervention intensive. The routine use of intravenous fluids, restrictions on eating and drinking, continuous electronic fetal monitoring, epidural analgesia, and augmentation of labor characterize most U.S. births. The use of episiotomy is far from restrictive. These interventions disturb the normal physiology of labor and birth and restrict women's ability to cope with labor. The result is a cascade of interventions that increase risk, including the risk of cesarean surgery, for women and babies.

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Healthy Birth Practice #5: Avoid Giving Birth on Your Back and Follow Your Body's Urge to Push

Abstract: Tradition, not evidence, continues to drive the management of the second stage of labor in most hospitals. This is an overview of current evidence associated with best practices for healthy outcomes for mothers and babies.

Cited by 3 publications

References 7 publications

Inviting Newton to Visit the Delivery Room the Role of Gravity During Childbirth

Inviting Newton to Visit the Delivery Room the Role of Gravity During Childbirth

Safe Childbirth: A Call to Action

Healthy Birth Practice #4: Avoid Interventions Unless They Are Medically Necessary

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