'Sitting' birth - or SEMIsitting?

Marsden Wagner, MD says,

"If the woman is...vertical...sitting...the...bony pelvis opens more to let
the baby out..."

Todd Gastaldo DC remarks:

WARNING...

SEMIsitting - perhaps now the most common delivery position - has been
called a vertical ('upright') position that confers the benefits of
squatting...

In fact, semisitting CLOSES the bony pelvis - up to 30%.

When Marsden mentioned sitting, he should have explicitly mentioned
SEMIsitting and the fact that it CLOSES the bony pelvis.

Marsden said further (same article):

"One way to find out if a hospital is practicing modern maternity care or
not is simply to see what position women are put in during birth. If
hospital staff are still putting women on their backs
during birth, they are ignoring all scientific data..."

WARNING...

Hospitals say that most women now give birth UPRIGHT - "with the head of the
bed raised."

But with the head of the bed raised, the woman is SEMIsitting. Semisitting
is like dorsal lithotomy - but in semisitting the birth canal is CLOSED WITH
MORE FORCE...

Up to six babies per DAY are dying from vacuum extractions alone - with
birth canals senselessly closed up to 30%!

See Babies bleed to death under their scalps: Vacuum-assisted spinal
manipulation by MDs
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/2115

WHY are we letting MDs and hospitals close birth canals up to 30%?

Thanks for reading,

Sincerely,

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo


PS My thanks to Canadian Grandma Donna Young for sending the Marsden Wagner
quote.

I liked it - with the caveat mentioned above...

I mentioned it in: Mothering and The Nurse Obedience Experiment
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/1992

SITTING - leaning way forward so there is no weight on the sacrum (as on a
toilet) - allows the birth canal to open. Some birthing stools/devices are
designed to let the sacrum move.