RE: [ozmidwifery] article FYI - to support what we already

[Mary Murphy]

Thanks leanne for posting this study. Updated: 6:33 p.m. ET March 7, 2006 First-time pregnant women who give birth in a kneeling position experience less pain than those who deliver in a seated position, researchers in Sweden report.. Over the last 20 yrs or more of attending homebirths, I have observed that in undirected labour and births, women nearly always choose the kneeling postion to both labour and birth in.  I have rarely seen a woman sit or lie down to birth and very few instinctively choose squatting.  I guess what the women have been telling me is what the research found…it hurts less and gives more flexibility of movement. MM