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Squatting Position Delivery: 1975 to 1987

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  • Posted on: 12 June 2019
  • By: claudio

In 1975 during a Brazilian congress of gynecology held here in Rio de Janeiro I presented a comparative work about squatting position delivery entitled “Do not disturb Indian delivery – squatting position delivery and supine position delivery in confront.”

By that time, we were screening for gynecological cancer, collecting cytological sample among the Brazilian Southern reservations population where we have evidenced that most women gave birth to their children in the squatting position. In those reservations the nurses, civilized women, practical midwives, tried to impose the supine position delivery in the nurseries, following medical patterns of the time.

Through the study we made, interviewing and examining more than a thousand women it became evident that their will was to have their children in the squatting position. On the other hand, comparing those women to thousands of civilized women we had examined the results showed Indian women in better gynecological conditions.

Theoretically what we had stated was obvious. Physiologically, supine position for birth, in any stage, is undoubtedly more disadvantageous for the woman when compared to vertical positions. Adopting supine position was recent there. It had been introduced in Europe in the beginning, during French courtship. Colonialism and its consequent cultural shock transplanted the idea to the different points of the planet. That’s the reason for the title – “Do not disturb Indian delivery…”