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New Study: Dancing during labour can reduce labour pain, shorten labour, promote natural childbirth and improve satisfaction
I love this new study on the benefits of dancing during labour and childbirth.
It makes total sense (at least to me) to get a labouring mother off the bed and moving freely to help labour progress physiologically.
The study found that dancing during labor can help:
- reduce labour pain
- shorten the duration of the 1st and 2nd stages of labour
- promote natural childbirth
- improve satisfaction with the labour
With no adverse effects on health outcomes.
This new research shows dancing is a cost-effective and simple way to improve a woman’s experience of labour and birth, with no negative side effects.
And in terms of the infant microbiome…. as dancing supports the physiology of natural childbirth, dancing can even help the optimal development of the infant microbiome (to understand why this is so important, take our free mini-course!)
What’s not to love!
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