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the human race survived millions of years without any
assistance of women during childbirth.
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I was 17 the first time I delivered a baby, and delivered four more during my career as a rescue squad person, and never ONCE did the mother do her lying in on her stomach, it was always supine or sitting up.
Prostrate means specifically lying on the stomach. There's a way to remember the difference between prone (which is also prostrate) and supine, which is lying on the back. There's a spine involved in the word and the act of being supine.
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Bill:
Our instructions for taking care of the infant in the ambulance post-delivery were to tie off the umbilicus but not to cut it. Ever. Usually by the time we got to the hospital the mother had delivered the placenta and we just handed the whole package off to the professionals.
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From person experience due to having given birth to several children, I can say that women do not in ANY circumstances lay prone during childbirth nor any time after their first few months of pregnancy due to the pain it causes as well as the fact that it will kill the child and has a possibility of killing the mother. We will lay on our backs, sides or sitting up, always in some form of supine manner.
This may be the reason the gentleman who became a midwife was unable to get any patience.
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Oh my! I guess I should have read further before posting my comment.
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No worries Alimae, it happens to the best of us  Québec had just had the first batch of graduates in midwifery at the University of Three Rivers. It was a very bid deal since midwifery was legalized. Bill, to elaborate on your point...the woman are taught to handle the complications that can arise during labor but also to be able to judge when a woman should be brought into the hospital. What I like about midwifery is that the women get support during their entire pregnancy...not just some guy showing up to catch the baby on the way out. Insel, just out of curiosity, why would you have a slew of midwives popping through your life all of a sudden?
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>>prostrate<< Oops!  >>Insel, just out of curiosity, why would you have a slew of midwives popping through your life all of a sudden?<< Perhaps to correct my usage? (Of course, I meant prone--odd post indeed)
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it happens to the best of usAnd even to the least of us.  Re: "helping hands" The only helping hand a gnat ever got was a second helping. And no-one offered it to him. He had to take it for himself.
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well do let me, offer you a second helping.. but please only one!
In fact, i cordually invite you to a second helping in any thread, in an post, in any topic. But please! can you limit it to a second helping? i just read all your comments about perseverating.. .. oh i just caught on, that what you were doing over there, again and again..
well, i am often slow on the uptake...
no matter, i am a still a hot chick even if it only in flashes!.
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i just read all your comments about perseverating.. .. oh i just caught on, that what you were doing over there, again and again..Yes, I'm trying to overcome my aversion to posting. You're not slow on the uptake, de Troy. And even less so on the 'take down'. Are u sure you don't have some gnatural-born instincts?P.S. That's a compliment [not a condiment]!
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