New Active Birth: A Concise Guide to Natural Childbirth

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New Active Birth

A concise guide to natural childbirth

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A relief from the temple of Kom Ombo, a town on the Nile in Upper Egypt, shows a woman giving birth in the kneeling position. Birth in the same position can be seen in a marble figure from Sparta, about 500 BC. In ancient China and Japan, women customarily gave birth in the kneeling position on a straw mat. All scenes, of course, depict only the final birth, but positions used during the rest of labour can also be traced.

In the Old Testament, Exodus, chapter I, verse 16 states:

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