RE: [RC] Riding/pregnancy/delivery, etc. - Ranelle Rubin
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Most
hospitals have "squat bars" they can put on the end of the delivery
table..helped me to avoid a second C-section.
Ranelle
What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in
some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of mind, for the
moment realizes itself.
Anna Jameson
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Riding/pregnancy/delivery, etc.
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.
