Women’s Choice of Positions during Labour : Return to the Past or a Modern Way to Give Birth? A Cohort Study in Italy
Joint Authors
Noventa, Marco
Nardelli, Giovanni Battista
Zambon, Alessandra
Gizzo, Salvatore
Bacile, Veronica
Di Gangi, Stefania
Source
Issue
Vol. 2014, Issue 2014 (31 Dec. 2014), pp.1-7, 7 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2014-05-15
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
7
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Background.
Childbirth medicalization has reduced the parturient’s opportunity to labour and deliver in a spontaneous position, constricting her to assume the recumbent one.
The aim of the study was to compare recumbent and alternative positions in terms of labour process, type of delivery, neonatal wellbeing, and intrapartum fetal head rotation.
Methods.
We conducted an observational cohort study on women at pregnancy term.
Primiparous women with physiological pregnancies and single cephalic fetuses were eligible for the study.
We considered data about maternal-general characteristics, labour process, type of delivery, and neonatal wellbeing at birth.
Patients were divided into two groups: Group-A if they spent more than 50% of labour in a recumbent position and Group-B when in alternative ones.
Results.
225 women were recruited (69 in Group-A and 156 in Group-B).
We found significant differences between the groups in terms of labour length, Numeric Rating Scale score and analgesia request rate, type of delivery, need of episiotomy, and fetal occiput rotation.
No differences were found in terms of neonatal outcomes.
Conclusion.
Alternative maternal positioning may positively influence labour process reducing maternal pain, operative vaginal delivery, caesarean section, and episiotomy rate.
Women should be encouraged to move and deliver in the most comfortable position.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Gizzo, Salvatore& Di Gangi, Stefania& Noventa, Marco& Bacile, Veronica& Zambon, Alessandra& Nardelli, Giovanni Battista. 2014. Women’s Choice of Positions during Labour : Return to the Past or a Modern Way to Give Birth? A Cohort Study in Italy. BioMed Research International،Vol. 2014, no. 2014, pp.1-7.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-487204
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Gizzo, Salvatore…[et al.]. Women’s Choice of Positions during Labour : Return to the Past or a Modern Way to Give Birth? A Cohort Study in Italy. BioMed Research International No. 2014 (2014), pp.1-7.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-487204
American Medical Association (AMA)
Gizzo, Salvatore& Di Gangi, Stefania& Noventa, Marco& Bacile, Veronica& Zambon, Alessandra& Nardelli, Giovanni Battista. Women’s Choice of Positions during Labour : Return to the Past or a Modern Way to Give Birth? A Cohort Study in Italy. BioMed Research International. 2014. Vol. 2014, no. 2014, pp.1-7.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-487204
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-487204