The practice of obstetrics, designed for the use of students and practitioners of medicine . Fig. 1050.—Exaggerated Lateral Prone Posture. Anterior View.—(From a photo-graph taken at the Emergency Hospital.) rupture of the cord or injury to the child. It has been suggested as a com-promise that the woman should squat or kneel during the latter part of thefirst stage, for she thereby retains the benefit of the upright position withoutthe risks just enumerated. In the second stage of labor the natural tendency ^. ^ --^H-^-^ Fig. 1051.—Exaggerated Lateral Prone Posture. Posterior
The practice of obstetrics, designed for the use of students and practitioners of medicine . Fig. 1050.—Exaggerated Lateral Prone Posture. Anterior View.—(From a photo-graph taken at the Emergency Hospital.) rupture of the cord or injury to the child. It has been suggested as a com-promise that the woman should squat or kneel during the latter part of thefirst stage, for she thereby retains the benefit of the upright position withoutthe risks just enumerated. In the second stage of labor the natural tendency ^. ^ --^H-^-^ Fig. 1051.—Exaggerated Lateral Prone Posture. Posterior taken at the Emergency Hospital.) -{From a during the expulsion period is toward the assumption of the dorsal has been ascertained that a reclining attitude facilitates the first half ofthe second stage, while during the second half the woman should turn on that 878 OBSTETRIC SURGERY. side toward which the fetal back presents, with her legs strongly flexed. Thisposition is believed to favor perfect flexion of the childs head. It is usedalmost universally in Great Britain throughout the second stage. While conduc-ing to modesty, it also lessens the intensity of the expulsive forces during perinealdilatation by bringing gravity into play. In the third stage of labor the womanshould lie flat on her back with the head low. In occipito-posterior positionsbefore labor has set in, the woman should assume the knee-chest or latero-proneposition with elevated hips in the hope that the head will eng
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