By Sarah Geo Walton, Birth and Postpartum Doula and Childbirth Educator from Reno, Nevada I am so excited about this new birth tool called the CUB. It can be taken ANYWHERE so it is suitable for home, birth center or hospital births! I’ve written two posts about how this innovative device can be used wherever you choose to birth for a possibly quicker, easier and safer experience. A bit about the CUB (Comfortable Upright Birth support) The CUB is an inflatable, versatile support stool that can be sat on or leaned over like a birth ball or used during pushing to give birth on, much like a traditional birth stool. It was created to help birthing people labor in positions that are upright and out of the bed. These positions allow more space in the pelvis, utilize gravity and have shown in research to make labor shorter, smoother and safer for the parent and their baby by lowering complications during the birth process. Research on birthing in upright positions suggests that being upright throughout labor and birth can increase the space within your pelvis by 28-30% so first stage can be shortened by up to 50% and pushing can be more effective. This can lead to a significantly shorter labor. It also shows that your baby is 54% less likely to have distressed fetal heart rate abnormalities. With labor being shorter with a happier baby, less intervention may be needed, decreasing the need for a medically assisted birth by 23%, episiotomy by 21% and emergency cesarean sections by up to 29%! (Source: https://www.cub-support.com/research-on-upright-birth/) How CUB Can Help In The Hospital Being in an upright position can be pretty important throughout labor in order to take advantage of gravity, encourage mobility and movement and help with optimal positioning of both the birthing person as well as their baby. It is wonderful to see that birth balls have become an acceptable and approved tool for labor in most hospitals, but many patients complain of feeling incredibly unstable on them. If we are trying to encourage positions where the person in labor feels safe, supported and can easily rest, the instability of the ball can be a deal breaker. This means that patients will often choose to get back into the hospital bed. The flat base of the CUB is the cure for this wobbly and unsteady seat! The CUB has multiple inflatable sections, granting it several size options depending on the height of the person and which position they are most comfortable laboring it. It is also made of a nonporous material and can be easily cleaned, making it a sustainable option for Labor and Delivery floors to offer to laboring people again and again. The CUB is extremely versatile and can be used in many different ways, all of which are encouraging of the most labor efficient positions. Whether using as a seat or something to lean over, being able to move freely can help the baby become optimally engaged in the pelvis more easily. This can lead to contractions being more effective and labors being much shorter. Being in the supported squat-like position that the CUB comfortably allows, opens up the pelvis up to 30%. When we are talking about the tight path a baby has to take to be born, that additional space can make all the difference. In addition, research shows that birth in an upright position can lower fetal distress and heart rate abnormalities by a compelling amount. Adopting the use of the CUB, could directly lower the need for labor augmentation and intervention such as pitocin, artificial rupture of membranes, epidural, episiotomy, forcep or vacuum assisted delivery and birth via cesarean section. While these interventions can absolutely be solutions in certain situations, it is well known that they are often overused. When it comes to implementing tools to avoid them, the CUB appears to be a low risk beneficial option.
With the CUB’s potential to shorten the time spent in labor and lower complications from interventions, it could allow parents more time to bond with their brand new baby and that is an outcome we should all be striving for. You can also read this blog here
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10/24/2018 0 Comments How CUB Can Help. Part 1: At Home![]() By Sarah Geo Walton, Birth and Postpartum Doula and Childbirth Educator from Reno, Nevada I am so excited about this new birth tool called the CUB. It can be taken ANYWHERE so it is suitable for home, birth center or hospital births! I’ve written two posts about how this innovative device can be used wherever you choose to birth for a possibly quicker, easier and safer experience. A bit about the CUB (Comfortable Upright Birth support) The CUB is an inflatable, versatile support stool that can be sat on or leaned over like a birth ball or used during pushing to give birth on, much like a traditional birth stool. It was created to help birthing people labor in positions that are upright and out of the bed. These positions allow more space in the pelvis, utilize gravity and have shown in research to make labor shorter, smoother and safer for the parent and their baby by lowering complications during the birth process. Research on birthing in upright positions suggests that being upright throughout labor and birth can increase the space within your pelvis by 28-30% so first stage can be shortened by up to 50% and pushing can be more effective. This can lead to a significantly shorter labor. It also shows that your baby is 54% less likely to have distressed fetal heart rate abnormalities. With labor being shorter with a happier baby, less intervention may be needed, decreasing the need for a medically assisted birth by 23%, episiotomy by 21% and emergency cesarean sections by up to 29%! (Source: https://www.cub-support.com/research-on-upright-birth/) How CUB can help at home I’m really looking forward to the CUB becoming a part of many midwives and doulas toolkits for the simple option of a birth stool that is not the toilet! This could be a game changer! I can not even begin to tell you how many people in homebirth environments end up having their babies in the teeniest of tiny bathrooms because the toilet is such an amazing (and often extra effective) place to push. While we love recommending the toilet as a place to labor, the CUB would be a lot more comfortable on the sit bones than the hard toilet seat. The CUB may also be preferable to many people who might worry that their baby will fall into the toilet. While this rarely happens, it is a common fear which can become a repeating thought. That fear can cause people to hold back and hold tension in their pelvic floor muscles instead of relaxing and allowing their body to do what it needs to while pushing. Since the CUB has an generous opening, it allows the parents or midwife to easily reach down to help the birthing person receive their baby. This cuts out the awkward moment of trying to communicate with the pushing person to either stand up from the toilet or reach down to catch while their baby is emerging. One of the other beauties of the CUB is that it is really light and portable! This means you can use it in ANY room. We often notice people who have chosen to have their babies at home strongly prefer to be, and stay in, a certain room or floor of their house. The portability of the CUB allows the birthing person to choose whichever room they feel most comfortable in and have as much or as little privacy as they would like. Since it can be really hard for them to maneuver very far when labor is at its most intense, it is an added perk that they do not have to move across the house because the CUB can be moved to them. Wherever someone chooses to birth, the CUB allows for plenty of positions where the person in labor can be supported by their partner or other birth support person. I am a major fan of anything that encourages comfort and closeness during birth. The CUB is definitely on the top of my list for things to add to help make my doula clients labor and births more manageable!
You can also read this blog here 9/28/2018 0 Comments Feminist Birth PositionsBy Alayna Spratley, Certified Childbirth Educator and Doula from Cleveland, Ohio I believe that labor and birth is a transformational feminist experience. This milestone event should be empowering and the birthing individual should feel supported, validated, and respected by her expert care team. Unfortunately, my feminist birthing sentiment isn’t the cultural norm in the United States. In fact, according to Evidence Based Birth’s State of Maternity Care (2018), the sad reality is that 57% of birthing individuals are confined to the bed once admitted to the hospital and 68% of people remain in a back-lying position to give birth. Neither one of these routine practices are supported by evidence and both can feel disempowering and be potentially harmful to both mother and baby. But you don’t have to give birth in a recumbent position out of routine practice or for the convenience of your care provider! Both the World Health Organization and the best evidence we currently have recommends that individuals birth in an upright position or in a way that is most comfortable for them. I like to refer to upright birth as feminist birth because it is the birthing individual’s choice as to which position is optimal. Here are some valuable statistics and more information about the benefits of feminist birth positions: Feminist Birth Positions To Consider: Get off your back and birth in a position that is most comfortable for you!
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You can also read this blog here 9/21/2018 0 Comments Doulas and Birth Tools, part 2![]() By Sarah Newton, Certified Doula from Richmond, Virginia The CUB Comfortable Upright Birth is an amazing tool for birth professionals, and is now being offered within the United States. As a Doula for over 7 years, I am always looking for good tools for my birthing bag. Ones that are really effective and are small enough to carry with me into a birth. The CUB definitely fits into this category. It has the capacity to replace 3-4 other tools, which makes it an excellent tool for birth doulas to take with them. I am looking forward to using this, and testing its ability to help my clients. I have read up on some of the statistics for birthing upright. It’s pretty awesome that birthing in an upright position can encourage these kind of birth statistics. Including the following:
The CUB can give you more stability with it being stationary, so I can imagine that the mother would feel safer on it. The safer a woman feels when in labor, the easier it is for the body to relax. And a relaxed body allows those contractions to work more efficiently at opening the cervix and bringing that baby down. Whatever I need to do as a doula to help create a good environment to labor in, good coping skills, position changes, and support, I do it. For me, I definitely have to think about what I teach, what skills I bring, and the tools as well. A fully stocked doula bag is worth its weight in gold. Sometimes you never use anything in your doula bag, other times you use EVERY single item from it. That being said, make sure you have good things in your bag! Variety The CUB allows you to use a variety of positions to labor in all while being supported, allowing you to sit on it alone, or even with the presence of a partner. It has the ability to help a laboring woman with an epidural get into a good position as well, to utilize gravity the best. You can squat with it as well, but still have something to lean on. On all fours is an excellent position, as well as on one knee. It also can mimic sitting on a toilet, which is a common place for homebirthing mothers to labor. It has the added benefit of being used during pregnancy for comfort, and helping with position of baby. This is above and beyond its benefits during labor. The use of one item having so many benefits all wrapped up together is phenomenal. I am beyond excited to utilize the CUB when it arrives and I can put it into practice with my doula clients. There are no negatives to the use of such a tool! You can also read this blog here 9/17/2018 1 Comment Birth Class Show-and-Tell: The CUBBy Alayna Spratley, Certified Childbirth Educator and Doula from Cleveland, Ohio As a certified Lamaze Childbirth Educator, Birth Boot Camp Instructor, and local community educator with Indie Birth, I serve Cleveland, Ohio families by providing independent childbirth education courses and early parenting workshops in my community. One of my favorite classes to teach is the Comfort Measures for Labor Workshop. This class is designed for expectant parents and we explore a myriad of evidence-based natural pain relief strategies, tips, tools, and techniques to help the birthing person stay calm, comfortable, and confident during labor and delivery. I often refer to this workshop my “Birth Show-and-Tell” class, because I bring a few birth tools with me and discuss their various uses and benefits. Couples enjoy learning how to use tangible tools that can support them throughout labor. One of my favorite “Show-and-Tell” tools is the CUB. The CUB, an acronym for Comfortable Upright Birth, is an award-winning inflatable support cushion that can be used throughout labor to facilitate an easier, shorter, and a more enjoyable birth experience. You are probably thinking, “Seriously!?! How exactly can a giant, blow-up pillow make birth less painful and shorter?” The answer isn’t magic but science. The CUB’s innovative design and intended use are based on the best evidence-based birth practices including staying upright and mobile during labor. The CUB is a hybrid birth stool and birth ball all-in-one. Its simple, yet practical design combines both traditional birthing knowledge with modern technology, research, and convenience. Here are just a few of the reasons I love the CUB, demonstrate its uses in my childbirth education classes, and highly recommend it to birthing families:
If you are interested in learning more about this awesome birth tool, its benefits, or purchasing your very own CUB, please visit CUB’s website and if you would like to learn about the CUB in-person, consider attending one of our upcoming Comprehensive Childbirth Education courses or Labor Comfort Measures workshop.
This blog can also be read at https://naturalbirth.us/birth/birth-class-show-and-tell-cub/ 9/3/2018 0 Comments Doulas and Birth Tools![]() By Sarah Newton, Certified Doula from Richmond, Virginia As a doula of 7 years, I am always looking for new “tools” to have with me in my doula bag. Specifically, ones that will benefit my clients and help them have a better, smoother birthing experience. Tools I have utilized are: Birthing Ball: These are beneficial, but do not have as much versatile uses. Some negatives are that they are often unstable, it’s not a once size fits all, and it can’t really be used when a client has opted for medication for pain relief. Peanut Balls: Excellent for opening the pelvis when a client is laying down, as well as leaning over in knee/chest position. Negatives are that you can’t sit on them, or utilize when pushing. Birthing Stools: Great for laboring in an upright position, but I have yet to find one that was comfortable for sitting on for more than a few minutes. CUB: you can use in place of a ball, peanut or birthing, and a stool. It opens the pelvis, helps position of mother and baby, brings pain relief, and is more comfortable then any of the above three. I stumbled upon a Facebook post about the CUB in the last month or so, and was very intrigued by it. Since almost always have used some kind of device that would help progress labor, lessen pain, etc. at births there was some definite interest in how the CUB could be of use. I immediately started doing some research on it so I could learn as much as possible about its benefits and uses. Discovery Here is what I discovered: the CUB, or comfortable upright birth, is an inflatable birthing tool. Shaped similar to a birthing stool, but infinitely more comfortable and allows you to labor in a variety of positions. It also has the benefits of being portable, easily cleaned, and much more stable during those long labors. I am also loving that this could be utilized as much with a client who had an epidural as one who was having a natural delivery. Having one birthing tool that can do both is great for me since my birthing bag can only hold so many goodies. I am a supporter of anything that is low intervention and allows my client to deliver in the best, and safest way possible. I also want tools that can help clients feel more comfortable, more stable, and with less pain. The CUB really does fit the bill, and then some. It’s the equivalent of a birthing ball, peanut ball, and birthing stool all rolled up into one. And comes in a few lovely shades of color! Honestly, I really liked the idea of being one of the first people in my area to utilize this amazing tool. And hopefully be able to bring it into any and all locations I am working with clients at. If you only have room for one tool, this would be it. You can read up on all it’s benefits here: http://www.the-cub-usa.com 8/8/2018 0 Comments The Doula of Birth ToolsBy Camille Nyman, Doula and Childbirth Educator from Maryland
If doulas were a tool you could purchase on the internet, you'd be hard pressed to find anything that fit the bill better than a CUB! For the uninitiated, a CUB (short for Comfortable Upright Birth) is a U-shaped, inflatable device intended for birthing people to use in a variety of ways. It's completely portable, wipeable, and versatile. Much like some of what doulas aim to do in the delivery room, the CUB encourages women to utilize a host of positions and pain relief techniques. It invites users to find the place and position that they are most comfortable birthing in, then meets them where they're at. I first encountered the CUB when I was training as a certified childbirth educator. The concept amazed me- it was squishy like a birth ball, but more stable. It was portable and adjustable for varying heights. It functioned as something to sit on and something to lean over. It left room for a support person to come behind a laboring woman without being awkward. I was amazed! I immediately began searching for where this fascinating tool might already be in use in my local community. It was then that I discovered that almost no one in the USA was using the CUB yet. Disappointed, I returned to my 'usual' bag of tricks when attending births and didn't think much more about it. A few years went by, and I ended up attending a rather long and difficult birth. Many tools and positions were attempted, and the CUB repeatedly kept coming to mind. I just kept thinking to myself how incredibly useful it would be in that situation. One of the most frequent complaints I hear from my clients as they labor and/or push is that they feel unstable. The desire to find their 'anchor' in labor is visceral and surprising to them. Birth balls are fantastic, but don't fit the bill; for someone struggling to find their center of gravity, they can be unnerving. They also don't readily adjust for women of marked height differences. Who wants to purchase multiple balls for each room in a hospital? (Read: no one.) Birth balls can roll away. Peanut balls are amazing when you need to lean over something firm and comfy- but not so great for sitting on. Birth stools are excellent for getting you into a better position to squat supported during pushing but often my clients complain they hurt if you sit on them for more than a few minutes. The CUB answers every single one of these issues. The CUB can be deflated and tucked in your trunk or birth bag, ready to go when you need it for your birth. It can be inflated to a size that feels right to you. It can be sat on, leaned over, shared with a partner. It's a jack of all trades in labor. If someone expresses a need for movement and flexibility but is anxious about not feeling 'stable' when doing so, the CUB is the solution. The CUB is a tool that meets you where you're at; what's more quintessential 'doula' than that? By Shalini Wiseman, Chartered Physiotherapist in Women’s Health & Continence, Cork University Maternity Hospital in Ireland
As a physiotherapist in women’s health, my introduction to the Comfortable Upright Birth- Support (CUB-Support) was in the labour ward. No, not for myself, but for the purpose of updating the hospital guidelines on the management of pelvic girdle pain in labour. This was during my trip to the down under (or labour ward, as the staff call it) with another colleague to review the new beds being used. This is a bi-annual opportunity for us to examine the beds and evaluate the range of movement required for the labouring hips, especially for antenatal women suffering from debilitating pelvic girdle pain. In a corner-we spotted a cosy looking blue inflatable seating. The midwives raved about how useful it was during labour,’ working as a gym ball during labour with the comfort of being seated with support and safety’. As curios physios do, we proceeded to take turns, sitting on it and adopting different positions- gravity-assisted positions for the first phase of labour of course! It was surprisingly comfortable and felt more secure than a gym ball. CUB-Support provided the safety of being supported while sitting, with the ability to rotate and tilt your pelvis to alleviate any discomfort at the sacroiliac joints (SIJ). It also allows you to lean forward onto it in kneeling, or in a forward lean with the CUB-Support on a bed (Fig.1). From this position, you can rock back and forth with ease and safety, thereby easing any discomfort in the low back. This secure support is not felt with a gym ball unless a husband kindly obliges by holding it while you do different gravity-assisted dynamisms. Small rocking movements at the lumbosacral joints have been utilised in many traditions to help ease labour pain, the Mexican Rebozza techniques being one such example. The CUB-Support allows for a bit more: working as a gym ball to alleviate restriction and aids movement at the SIJ and hips while allowing for the Rebozza techniques without the woman being restricted on a seat or her hands and knees. Additionally, the CUB-Support has a distinct sensation of while you rock your pelvis, a combination of mild vibrations, wobble and bounce with a definite sense of being supported and secure while doing so. I am really taken by this! I needed to take this out of the down under and move it to the first floor (Physio department). In order to aid women in their second and third trimester in the self-management of pelvic girdle pain with safety, I decided to modify some of their gym ball exercises for use on the CUB-Support. This approach proved very beneficial. Forward kneeling, upright positions and rocking have always been advised in the late trimester to allow the descent of the baby into the pelvis. CUB-Support allows 36 weekers to sit upright or adopt a supported kneeling position and leaning forward onto the CUB-Support to rock back and forth with secure support The majority of the women loved the fact that with the CUB-Support they could experience the same benefits that the gym ball provided in the easing the SIJ discomfort while also experiencing the soothing affects of the wobbling motion that is peculiar to the CUB-Support. And all this with the added assurance of knowing they would not fall off it. The CUB-support is not just useful in labour. I have found it helpful in antenatal classes especially for women with debilitation pregnancy-related pelvic girdle pain who need the reassurance of safety while exercising. The above information is a clinical opinion based on clinical experience. The CUB-Support has only been used with patients under supervision. There is no research supporting my claims, but this has been my anecdotal experience. However, there is the scope for utilising CUB-Support for pelvic girdle exercises in the third trimester by politely borrowing it from the labour ward. By MeriBeth Glenn, Traditional Midwife, Pennsylvania I'm very excited to talk about the importance of upright birth positions! Many births in the US are taking place with women, in bed, with pain management procured, legs on the foot pads and the woman on her back. (The good news is that we've managed to trade the stirrups for foot pads but we're still birthing on our backs.) In many birth scenarios, women aren't being offered a birth ball, squat bar or even the option to birth in a side lying position. She might be able to labor and even push in those positions, but when it comes time for the baby to actually be born, many women are moved from a slightly more upright position into a standard lying or semi-sitting position that's best suited to the care provider. The back-draws to this standard birth position is mostly evident in the postpartum time frame and the next several years as women find themselves suffering from pelvic floor dysfunction, prolapse issues and incontinence issues. Suddenly urinary incontinence items are added to the grocery shopping list and sending your husband for feminine products is no longer the most embarrassing thing you've ever had to ask him to buy. They find themselves sifting through google searches of care providers, pelvic floor therapists, kegel exercise instructions, yoni eggs, and ad after ad of exercise instructors who promise great results for healing weakened pelvic floor muscles and the ability to jump on a trampoline again without having wet pants. Potty training a toddler shouldn't be made more difficult by the willful defiance of the little tike who boldly points out that mommy still wears diapers. Is it really so much to ask that we be able to sneeze, cough or laugh without having to brace yourself with crossed legs and a quick, silent prayer that you don't make a public announcement of a very a intimate issue? Speaking of intimate issues: Why should we settle for intercourse being painful or excessively saturated by leaking urine? Talk about a mood breaker! Lining the bed with extra towels or having to change urine soaked sheets the morning after, doesn't exactly boost a woman's postpartum confidence levels into the super sexy range. Yet we have been dupes into believing that it's just part of post baby body existence. In recent years, more professionals are becoming increasingly aware that women aren't just content to continue being the vessel by which their babies come earthside. We are individual participant in a very active and athletic body process that requires preparation, mindset, surrender, resolve and movement. This concept has been applied and even encouraged to the LABOR process since the uprise of childbirth education courses in the 1980s. There's been great strides taken in helping to promote more active postures in labor and into the pushing stage for both natural unmedicated births and births involving some pain management options. However, the mentality to maintain those upright positions through the birthing process is often over looked. The result is that babies are still pushed earthside “uphill” through the pelvic bones and musculature resulting in unnecessary added bruising and trauma to much of the supporting muscles in the pelvic floor. So a woman labors upright for hours and moves her baby down. As it is time to birth her baby, she's moved into a semi-sitting position, gives another few pushes and her precious blessing is welcomed into the world. She wasn't on her back the whole time so why, 2 years postpartum is she having such a hard time with her pelvic floor health? To understand some of/a portion of/a part of why this happens we need to look at few key parts of the female pelvis. *In the illustration below I've included the male and female pelvis for comparison. It's super fascinating! The male pelvis (top illustration) is “V” shaped while the female pelvis (lower illustration) is “U” or “O” shaped. The sacrum or tailbone is that large set of bones that starts in your lower back and goes down the line of your butt crack. It's the bone that you are sitting on when you're in a semi-sitting position, leaning back with your feet on the foot pads. The female sacrum has this amazing ability to swivel and move front or back in any direction as much as 45 degrees. This is in comparison to the male sacrum that can only move front or back (no swivel ability) up to 25 degrees. When a woman is sitting on her sacrum, it can't move and swivel like it should be able to to allow more room for the baby to move through the pelvis. When the sacrum can't move, that means everything else has to. Soft tissue trauma, muscle trauma, swelling and stretching become far more prominent and much more likely. Another key player in the birth game is the small piece of cartilage in the very front of the female pubic bone called the pubis symphasis. (seen in the illustration above) In pregnancy, That small piece of cartilage softens as a result of the pregnancy hormone called relaxin. Because it is soft, the pubis symphasis has the ability to expand or contract to allow the front of the pelvis to open or shift, allowing as much as 2” of extra space or can even compress to allow a mild, momentary overlapping of the front pubic bones. (Think of it like a pair of scissors; open the scissors are able to have something large placed into them but closed, they over lap.) If a woman is sitting on her sacrum during birth, the job of the pubis symphasis not only includes the job of expanding and compressing but to pivot and rotate---something the pubis symphasis can't do. It's not designed to! The result again means more trauma to the soft muscle tissues of the pelvic floor. The bladder is more likely to be pulled downward, the colon and rectum more likely to be shoved downward and back. It's just messy. So what's the alternative? Upright birth! Keeping a woman in an upright birth posture allows the key parts of the female pelvis to do their own individual jobs and removes much of the excess trauma risk to the pelvic floor muscles and tissues. When the sacrum can move and pivot and the pubis symphasis can expand or compress, the female pelvis has a potential for as much as 3” or 4” more space in the pelvis to be added for birth! This means less immediate heavy trauma to the soft tissues and far less likelihood of of organs being pulled or pushed from their usual resting places. It's the difference between tripping and falling on the sidewalk in comparison to being pushed down a flight of stairs. Trauma is inevitable either way, but the depth and extent of the trauma of being pushed down a flight of stairs is going to be more significant. It's going to take more time to heal and you are probably going to have more long term effects from being pushed. How can we help women birth while lessening the trauma likelihood of “being pushed”? I mean let's face it, birth is hard and staying upright in some situations can be nearly impossible (especially with some pain management options.) Hospital birth beds can be moved to accommodate many upright birth postures including the addition of a squat bar. Birth stools, Birth balls, Birth eggs,/peanuts and rocking chairs have been widely used in the past several decades to encourage upright labor and birth positions. The frustration with some birth stools was that some mothers don't appreciate the unforgiving discomfort of the wood or plastics that they're made of. The same with rocking chairs. Adding a few pillows or padding might help but it's not exactly like sitting on a cloud. Enter the birth ball or egg! Squishy softness that even moved and allowed women to sit comfortably supported while rocking or bouncing to help move their baby down and labor to progress. Or you can get in a hands and knees position and lean over the ball or egg to support your upper body. It's great place to catch a nap in between contractions. At least until you leaned too heavily and the ball started to roll. Not a fun way to get startled awake! So for the women who want the sturdiness of the stool or chair but the soft comfiness of the ball, there's The CUB Comfortable Upright Birth support. This nifty inflatable U-shaped seat allows a woman to pick a variety of upright positions for labor and birth. The height also works well for birth attendants to allow for visibility and monitoring the wellness of the mother and baby. (for more information about The CUB, click here!)
Isn't it wonderful to have options! Upright birth coupled with well rounded, sensible postpartum recovery care, can decrease pelvic floor trauma and greatly reduce long term pelvic floor issues like organ prolapse and incontinence. When we know better we do better. If we can take some simple steps or add a few more labor and birthing support options to assist in promoting upright birth, we absolutely do better!
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