| Zhavric,
When you have known a pair of board-certifid Midwives for six years, sometimes you pick things up. When women from cultures in which babies are delivered from a semi-upright position report less pain and shorter periods of labour, and this is backed up by Anthropological fieldwork, and you research in that fieldwork, you pick up on it.
Try reading Mad Dogs, Englishmen, And Errant Anthropologists to start. This was the first of my sources that specifically mentioned this, though I'll have to dig through my notes to make sure of the rest. My bibliography for that thing was 3.5 pages, so I wanna make sure I get it right.
Please note that I never said that childbearing was painless. I simply stated that one of the reasons it's such a painful process for most women is that the position employed is not terribly efficiant. I know two women who have used both methods (one of them being the elder of those two Midwives I mentioned) and both reported significantly less pain and shorter labour. Mrs. B, who only stands 5' tall, delivered her last daughter (at 8lbs, 3oz) in less than half an hour. |