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Labor Positions

And what I might have done differently

Emily Oster
Feb 23
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Labor Positions

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Not to overshare, but: when I gave birth to my first child, I pushed for over two hours. Or maybe it was four hours? Or a whole day? It blurs. Anyway, it was an extremely long time. I did it for the whole time on my back, in the “traditional” (for hospital births in the Western world in the modern era) position. I had a wonderful doula during the birth,…

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