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Having Your Baby: Upright or Lying Down?

Wallace, Daniel C.
2008-03-31
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Having Your Baby: Upright or Lying Down?

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Giving birth in the upright position holds several advantages over giving birth lying down. These advantages include: reduced duration of second stage of labor (less pushing time); a small reduction in assisted deliveries (deliveries that required the use of vacuum, forceps or csection); a reduction in episiotomies (an incision made to enlarge the birth opening); reduced reporting of severe pain during second stage of labor; and fewer abnormal fetal heart rate patterns. Despite these obvious

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Wallace, Daniel C.. (2008). Having Your Baby: Upright or Lying Down?. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/5864.

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