ArticleThe Journal of perinatal education2019
Healthy Birth Practice #2: Walk, Move Around, and Change Positions Throughout Labor.
Article in The Journal of perinatal education, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- The effects of dance on maternal childbirth: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Pooled it
- Randomized controlled trial on the effect of the peanut ball devices on the duration of active labor, labor pain and comfort.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2026Trial
- Impact of Upright Position during the First Stage of Labour on Maternal Outcomes: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Reviews on recent clinical trials · 2025Trial
- The effect of birth ball exercise on labor pain, delivery duration, birth comfort, and birth satisfaction: a randomized controlled study.Archives of gynecology and obstetrics · 2024Trial
- Comparison of advanced electronic intrapartum monitoring system (Keyar device and Daksh application) with standard cardiotocography for assessment of fetal heart rate and uterine contractions.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2026Article
- Accuracy of a Noninvasive, Wearable, Wireless, ECG-Based, Intrapartum Monitoring Tool Against the Conventional Ultrasound-Based CTG.Journal of obstetrics and gynaecology of India · 2025Article
- Non-Pharmacological Pain Management in Labor: A Systematic Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Review
- Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation: An Overview.The Journal of perinatal education · 2022Article
- A Quality Improvement Project Utilizing a Clinical Practice Guideline in Women During Second-Stage Labor.The Journal of perinatal education · 2020Article
- Safe Childbirth: A Call to Action.The Journal of perinatal education · 2019Article
- Healthy Birth Practice #4: Avoid Interventions Unless They Are Medically Necessary.The Journal of perinatal education · 2019Article
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Abstract
Women who use upright positions and are mobile during labor have shorter labors, less intervention, fewer cesarean births, and report less severe pain, and describe more satisfaction with their childbirth experience than women in recumbent positions. The evidence for supporting physiologic childbearing for optimal birth fails to disrupt intervention intensive hospital practices that deny 60% of women mobility in labor despite calls by maternity care organizations to not restrict mobility for low risk women in spontaneous labor.
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