If you lay down, the baby will never come out. -Native American - TopicsExpress



          

If you lay down, the baby will never come out. -Native American saying Women walked, strutted, crawled, swayed, and leaned. They remained mobile, moving their baby down, facilitating a faster birth. The laboring woman would stand, kneel, sit, squat, hang, dance, or otherwise move her baby down; the one position that a woman never birthed in was lying down. Some Native American cultures used smoke bathes to help relax the perineum during birth. The smoke was usually created from laurel leaves burned in a small clay pot, which the mother would squat or kneel over. Some other times a secondary birth attendant would blow the smoke onto the mothers perineum.
Posted on: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 21:39:09 +0000

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