Re:Apparatus for facilitating the birth of a child by centri...
by thaumasiotes on Thursday August 24, 2023 @08:01AM
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> Do you know what is the most uncomfortable position for labour is? Yeah, layin on your back. It's just the most comfortable position for the _doctor_.
Almost. The reason the hospital makes you do that is not that the position is comfortable for the doctor.
It's that the doctor wants to follow a set of guidelines for what should be happening when according to how dilated the mother's cervix is, all of those guidelines use measurements from a supine mother, and changing the mother's position changes how dilated the cervix is.
But you're correct that the supine position is bad and we should stop doing it.
(Source: my mother is an OB/GYN, and is particularly interested in natural birth and similar hippie considerations. In this case, my sympathies are with the hippie considerations.)
Almost. The reason the hospital makes you do that is not that the position is comfortable for the doctor.
It's that the doctor wants to follow a set of guidelines for what should be happening when according to how dilated the mother's cervix is, all of those guidelines use measurements from a supine mother, and changing the mother's position changes how dilated the cervix is.
But you're correct that the supine position is bad and we should stop doing it.
(Source: my mother is an OB/GYN, and is particularly interested in natural birth and similar hippie considerations. In this case, my sympathies are with the hippie considerations.)