"Birthing chair" from_date:2012

Delivery in a vertical birth chair supported by freedom of movement during labor: A randomized control trial. To evaluate the effect of delivery in a vertical birth chair (VBC) and traditional delivery table (DT) supported by women's movement during labor on the labor process, fetal outcome, maternal hormone levels, birth comfort, and satisfaction. This randomized controlled trial was conducted

trials in the Cochrane review included licensed midwives, and none included lay or traditional midwives. Also, no trial included out of hospital birth.[8]History[edit]Ancient history[edit]A woman giving birth on a birth chair, from a work by German physician Eucharius Rößlin Icon Birth of Mary (detail). Russia, 17th centuryIn ancient Egypt, midwifery was a recognized female occupation, as attested of birth chairs. Bas reliefs in the royal birth rooms at Luxor and other temples also attest to the heavy presence of midwifery in this culture.[22]Midwifery in Greco-Roman antiquity covered a wide range of women, including old women who continued folk medical traditions in the villages of the Roman Empire, trained midwives who garnered their knowledge from a variety of sources, and highly trained women