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Evidence Based Birth®

EBB 17 - The Evidence on: Birthing Positions

Evidence Based Birth®

Rebecca Dekker

Kids & Family, Medicine, Parenting, Health & Fitness

4.31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2018

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

How could upright birthing positions benefit mothers and babies? How common are upright birthing positions? For people without epidurals, which birthing positions are best supported by evidence? For people with epidurals, which birthing positions are best supported by evidence?

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0:00.0

Hi everyone in today's podcast I'm going to quickly talk about our new signature article all about the evidence on birthing positions.

0:12.0

Welcome to the Evidence-based birth podcast.

0:15.0

Join us each week as I tackle the evidence on another hot topic about childbirth.

0:20.0

As a reminder this information is not medical advice.

0:23.5

See EvieBbirth.com slash disclaimer for more details.

0:30.0

Hi everyone, this is Rebecca Decker I'm a nurse with my PhD and the host of

0:37.2

this evidence-based birth podcast before we get started I want to give a shout

0:41.2

out to two-hands birth services in Burlington County, New Jersey.

0:46.0

This group of Doolas just attended a private savvy birth pro workshop facilitated by Kat La Plant, one of our

0:52.4

evidence-based birth instructors.

0:54.4

They used this workshop as a team-building experience and spent the afternoon brainstorming

0:59.6

how as a group they could help more families in their community get evidence-based care.

1:03.4

So thanks guys for attending and I hope you had a great time.

1:06.0

If anybody else out there wants to organize a Savvy Birth Pro Workshop for your group,

1:10.7

this is a continuing education workshop for nurses, doula's and childbirth educators. Just visit directory

1:16.6

evidence-based birth.com to find an instructor near you. And with that let's get

1:21.4

back to today's podcast all about the

1:23.3

evidence on birthing positions. A few days ago I released a podcast all about

1:27.8

the evidence on positioning and movement during labor and specifically the effects on pain relief.

1:34.8

In summer, we've found that randomized trials have shown

1:38.7

that positioning and movement during the first stage of labor

1:42.2

decreases pain and also decreases the

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