A few months ago we published an entry in which we rescued an advertisement from 50 years ago, in which they showed us the benefits of an obstetric table for the gynecologist's comfort while the woman gave birth lying and with the legs up, in lithotomy position.
Time has passed and luckily more and more professionals are clear that delivery is better vertically, with the help of the force of gravity. Maybe that's why now the Relaxbirth chair arrives in Spain, which you can see in the images, thanks to which (it is the first thing that has come to mind when I see it) You can give birth as if you were riding a Harley Davidson.
The "Relaxbirth" chair
No, the chair is not called "Queen of the Road" or "Harley Birthing", but "Relaxbirth", as if to tell us that thanks to her, women will have the most relaxed delivery possible. Well, if we compare it with giving birth lying with raised legs, uncomfortable and without the baby being able to leave properly sure that it is a pass, but if we compare it with a birth in which the woman has freedom of movement and can get as she wants, without having to sit anywhere, cling to anything in particular not wear a harness (watch the video), because relaxing has little:
As we read in the Nurses' Journal, the chair has been used for several years in Finland, where it has been invented, and is in the experimental phase in the United States and Canada. Now he arrives in Spain where in the next year he will start testing in some private hospitals.
The driving force behind this chair is the Finnish midwife Choose Marketta Pessinen, who knew the multiple benefits of vertical delivery thought that a device like this chair would help a lot in childbirth. According to the data they are collecting (they have more than a thousand deliveries with her), thanks to the chair they are getting the ejection phase faster, "since lying on the bed or lying down the thrust is usually prolonged by the female anatomy itself as the birth canal narrows". In addition, they are reducing instrumentalized deliveries, being necessary on less occasions the use of forceps or suction cup.
These benefits were already seen with the wooden birthing chairs
Well, yes, the data is better, sure, than in deliveries in lithotomy position, but not for the use of the "Relaxbirth" chair, but because the woman is vertical. Come on, that the benefits of this chair are widely known because before it, wooden birthing chairs have been used for many years. Chairs like those built by a craftsman from Teruel, with his hands and a little wood, achieving a product that is sure to be much cheaper than the Harley chair ... sorry, than the "Relaxbirth", or chairs like the one in this photo, found in the blog of Celia Iglesias.
Wooden birthing chair: good, pretty and cheap Come on, I'm sure that midwives who advocate natural birth and have been using these wooden chairs for years, or not using them if the woman prefers to give birth without more help than her own body, should be scratching the neck of the allergy that give the megagas megacara megagasilla, although be careful, let's not throw it away yet, which has benefits that will be very useful in the future:
- Despite the cost and the denaturation of giving birth with harnesses, iron bars and in the position that they tell you that you have to wear, women can finally give birth vertically.
- If you arrive to unseat according to what childbirth chairs, welcome, it will always be better than the typical chairs in which the woman has to be lying yes or yes.
- It looks like a hospital mamotreto: A gynecologist of all life will laugh and reject without regard any wooden chair for being what it is, wooden and cheap, because he considers that "I have not studied years and years to now tell me that women have to give birth in a home chair without a seat, "and I'm sure will accept "Relaxbirth" better because it seems the latest technology, expensive and "dispensing" only hospital (come on, which is a way to finally bring the delivery in vertical to the more traditional gynecologists).
So hey, there is no harm that for good does not come, but no, women of the world, delivery still does not necessarily have to be in a pot like that. Look that I am a man, because I have imagined myself as the woman in the video and I have wanted to laugh, as if saying, "Go on, let me do this and remove all this, which instead of giving birth seems to have come to the gym and what I want is to be able to focus on mine, and not to put myself on or know how in this bug with a seat belt. "
