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Updated: 5/8/2010
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The use of a specially designed birthing stool can play a positive role in helping women to achieve a dignified, natural and hygenic birth experience. The stool available at Birth International has been cleverly designed to offer support in a squat, while not inhibiting movement.
When the use of obstetric forceps were developed in France in the seventeenth century it became fashionable for the upper classes to be 'confined' to bed or the birth, making it easier for their medical attendants to supervise the situation. If medical intervention became neccessary (and it often did - most of the requirements for a natural birth having been denied) the so called 'stranded beetle', c-shape, lithotomy position made it easier to carry out such procedures.
The special form of the seat does not restrict the base of the backbone or hips, and with no back or arm rests to get in the way, mothers can freely find the best position to push. In short, it proviides the optimal birthing position.
A birthing stool enables a birthing woman to be supported while in a squat position. The Midwife, or Physician sits, kneels, or also squats to greet and guide baby's birth. .
> squatting widens the pelvis creating more room for baby to pass through the pelvis
> squatting utilizes gravity
> pushing is more effective
> circulation to baby is not compromised
Using a birthing stool for support enables the pelvic floor to be completely relaxed. As the bab'y's head presses down more evenly and gently through the vaginal outlet you are less likely to tear or need an episiotomy.
With the dawn of a new millennium upon us, perhaps now is the ideal time to take an objective view of the way history has moulded our lives and shaped what has become the routine way of giving birth. This newly designed birthing stool, moulded to an exacting standard in high quality plastic and with a lightweight aluminium bowl which fits neatly underneath, may also have a part to play in any future developments.
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