Sometimes lying down is harder work
From Chicago, at the 87th annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America
Most U.S. women deliver their babies while lying down, but a new study suggests that squatting or standing might ease the process by allowing the birth canal more room to expand.
“Women use different labor positions depending on cultural background or even as a fashion,” says Thomas Keller of University Hospital in Zurich. “But what changes these positions might cause in the pelvis were not exactly known.”