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Videos"Before we move on to the prenatal meditation, we're going to practice proper pushing technique for those of us who are thirty-six weeks pregnant or more."
Carmen, our midwife, stepped into the middle of the room where the rest of us, six women and two men, were sitting comfortably on our mats.
"Who here is thirty-six weeks or more?" she asked, scanning the room.
No one raised their hand.
"Beatriz...and April," Carmen said.
April and Beatriz smiled sheepishly at each other from across the room. Today was their turn.
Carefully lowering themselves onto one elbow, then rolling over onto their backs so they were lying face up on their gym mats, they assumed the position, knees up and legs spread apart as far as possible.
"Farther," Carmen said. She watched as the two women timidly spread their legs farther apart.
"Here, let me help you." Carmen walked over to where April was lying, kneeled down, and gently pressed April's legs apart until she couldn't stretch any further. "That's it," Carmen said. She stood up, walked across the room, and kneeled down next to Beatriz.
April turned her head and looked at me. She bit her lip and giggled.
"I feel like a stuffed turkey," she said.
Monday, September 11, 2006
The Position
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oh my! positioning the celebration of womanhood and daddyhood. beautiful.
That's IT, huh? THE position - meaning the ONE and ONLY!? (Ok, my anti medicalized-Spanish-view-of-pregnancy is coming out!) I hope some day that the Spanish doctors take physics and learn about gravity and realize - lo and behold, gravity is the laboring woman's friend! And not only that, but gravity works it's force on things going down, not horizontally.
Can you at least insist on elevating the head of the bed (preferably between 45- 80 degrees)?
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