My wife gave birth like this, right on the living room floor and my daughter came out in an egg. The whole thing happened so quick, the midwife only arrived a few moments before she dropped, lucky as she needed to cut the egg open and get my daughter out.
Meanwhile I was lying on the sofa with a broken leg trying to stop our cat from eating everything.
I like how you describe her as “in an egg” lol. She was still inside the amniotic sac. The majority of the time, the amniotic sac ruptures prior to delivering the baby. The baby is delivered first and then the placenta follows soon after. But when both are delivered together with the sac entirely intact, it has a special name called an “en caul” birth.
It’s one you can use. The position we normally see is actually not really all that great for childbirth. It generally leads to more tearing, but doctors use it for easy access. Squatting or bent over like that can be easier and more comfortable for the woman. It’s just harder to get all up in there to see what’s going on.
I think you’re talking about the position of the baby in the womb, right? Not the woman? Normally yeah, the baby would be facing the other way (still headfirst)
This is the one thing this post gets right. Hands and knees is better because then the baby can move downward, if you are on your back you have to push it up and out.
That is not a normal position right
My wife gave birth like this, right on the living room floor and my daughter came out in an egg. The whole thing happened so quick, the midwife only arrived a few moments before she dropped, lucky as she needed to cut the egg open and get my daughter out.
Meanwhile I was lying on the sofa with a broken leg trying to stop our cat from eating everything.
This would make an amazing Renaissance painting
I like how you describe her as “in an egg” lol. She was still inside the amniotic sac. The majority of the time, the amniotic sac ruptures prior to delivering the baby. The baby is delivered first and then the placenta follows soon after. But when both are delivered together with the sac entirely intact, it has a special name called an “en caul” birth.
Legend has it that babies born en caul, or “in their waters” will never drown at sea.
Lemmy, educational as always
Better Caul Saul
Hell yeah brother
Can one say your daughter’s a cute chick? Does she still squawk from time to time?
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Off-topic, but do you put that license link in your comments as a way to say that you don’t agree with them being scrapped for commercial usage?
https://programming.dev/post/7560062
The link is giving me a “couldnt_find_post” error
Yeah. I don’t know why but I also can’t open it, shared it using Jerboa. But the reason is basically AI scraping and that AI/LLM’s can spit out their training data so that notice could show up there. They provided this article: https://stackdiary.com/chatgpts-training-data-can-be-exposed-via-a-divergence-attack/
This was a very interesting read, thanks for the link.
Hammer, meet head of nail 👍 Specifically commercial AI usage.
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It’s one you can use. The position we normally see is actually not really all that great for childbirth. It generally leads to more tearing, but doctors use it for easy access. Squatting or bent over like that can be easier and more comfortable for the woman. It’s just harder to get all up in there to see what’s going on.
Its not abnormal. I’m no midwife, but I recall from my childbirth class, its one of a few main positions used.
https://www.lancastergeneralhealth.org/health-hub-home/motherhood/your-pregnancy/5-different-birthing-positions-to-try-during-labor
Very normal. My partner gave birth in this position. The stirrups position is abnormal and often worse.
Sunny side up!
That baby is positioned upside-down. They should be facing backwards, then the back of the neck pivots against the pubic bone during delivery.
I think you’re talking about the position of the baby in the womb, right? Not the woman? Normally yeah, the baby would be facing the other way (still headfirst)
This is the one thing this post gets right. Hands and knees is better because then the baby can move downward, if you are on your back you have to push it up and out.