birthing chairs
Labor support furniture
A birthing chair is a specially designed seat that supports a woman in an upright or semi-reclined position during childbirth.
The design uses gravity to assist labor and delivery.
Birthing chairs date back millennia but fell out of favor with the rise of hospital beds; they've seen renewed interest in natural childbirth movements: The midwife helped her onto the birthing chair.
- midwiferyBirth attendance practice
- laborStrenuous effort; also childbirth
- active laborChildbirth's intensive phase
- obstetricsChildbirth medicine branch
- upright positionStanding or sitting straight
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