Re: [RC] Riding/pregnancy/delivery, etc. - Barbara McCrary
Which was, I believe, the original
way of delivering in pre-history and more recent times until the advent
of modern medical intervention. I am chuckling, because horseback riding
does wonders for the leg muscles and the ability to squat or rise to a stand
from a sitting or squatting position. We riders have an advantage
there......
I have a friend who is a hunter/jumper rider, a serious top flight
competitor as a young woman.
When her baby began to struggle during labor her doctor said that they
needed to consider a C section unless she thought she could assume
a squatting position, which sometimes facilitates delivery.
She said something on the order of "Boy, can I", hopped up on
the table and promptly delivered her son.
