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Abstract:
We compared uterine activity in lateral recumbency and the sitting position during the first stage of labor in a group of nulliparas. Lateral recumbency was accompanied by more intense, less frequent and more efficient uterine contractions than sitting. Patients preferred sitting for the first half of labor and lateral recumbency for the second. No adverse fetal reaction was noticed in either position, judging from the fetal heart rate. An increase in maternal pulse rate during sitting could have indirectly indicated some compression of the prevertebral vessels. Maternal position clearly affects several parameters of labor, and its selection should be based upon maternal comfort, uterine contractility and efficiency, and hemodynamic repercussions.
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