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Sunday, April 19, 2009
Gravity and Birthing
Logic wins again!!
A new study has been published in Cochrane Database which supports the notion that laboring vertically (squatting, standing, etc) reduces the length of the first stage of labor by up to 1 hour and were less likely to have an epidural. Now if only we could figure out a way to get hospitals to let women out of their beds so they could do this...
Read more here on how gravity can help you birth here:
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