Lamaze Healthy Birth Practices - #2: Walk, Move, and Change Positions

Continuing our series on the Lamaze Healthy Birth Practices, here is practice #2: Walk, Move, and Change Positions.  Research shows that compared to those birthing in centres whose policies restrict movement during labor, women who are free to move and change positions throughout the birthing process are more apt to experience the following:

• shorter labors
• more efficient contractions
• greater comfort, and
• less need for pharmaceutical pain relief during labor

(See The Journal of Perinatal Education 2007 Summer; 16(3): 21-34 "Care Practice #2: Freedom of Movement Throughout Labor" Shilling, Romano, DiFranco, et al) 

For more information, please download the pdf. file - Walk, Move, and Change Positions Throughout Labor

~ Michelle