US 4,225,127 A · Natural childbirth positioner

Abstract

A natural childbirth positioner is presented for allowing an expectant woman to give birth to her child while in a natural squatting position. For many hundreds of years women have been giving birth while in the supine position. With the woman so positioned, uterine pressure can interfere with the flow of blood from the uterus to the infant, causing the supply of oxygen to the infant to be dangerously reduced. Contrastingly, childbirth in the squatting position, as provided for by the present invention, allows the woman's abdomen and diaphragm muscles to give an effective and strong push with each labor contraction and thus can shorten delivery time. In practice the natural childbirth positioner allows the expectant woman to assume a supine position preparatory to and immediately after child delivery. However, with the onset of closely spaced contractions, the expectant woman can be moved to and held comfortably in the squatting position.

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Dependent claims

A positioner including:

a base;
a chair back pivotably mounted to said base;
means for pivoting said chair back relative to said base;
said base defining a chair seat, said seat defining an aperture therethrough;
first and second leg supports;
means for pivotably securing the leg supports to said base including a substantially cylindrical extension secured to each said leg support and wherein said base defines a substantially cylindrical aperture which receives each said substantially cylindrical extension, and
means for removably securing each of said leg support to said base;
and
wherein the means for removably securing each said leg support to said base includes at least one tab secured to each said substantially cylindrical extension and at least one indentation in the periphery of each cylindrical aperture, and each substantially cylindrical extension including a peripheral lange space from the tab.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Natural childbirth positioner

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Abstract

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