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Upright Labor Positioning

Upright Labor Positioning is a birthing methodology within the class of labor positioning techniques that specifically involves maintaining the laboring individual in an erect, gravity-assisted posture—such as standing, sitting, or kneeling—to facilitate fetal descent and optimize maternal physiological mechanics during childbirth.

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2017–2026

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Variants

Upright Birth Positioning

Parents

Publications

49

Randomised trial comparing the upright and supine positions for the second stage of labour

P.R. De Jong, Richard Johanson, P. Baxen et al. · BJOG An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology · 1997 · 117 citations

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Alternative positions in the second stage of labour: a randomized controlled trial

Jason Gardosi, SHARON SYLVESTER, Christopher B‐Lynch · BJOG An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology · 1989 · 79 citations

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Postural influence on maternal capillary oxygen and carbon dioxide tension

C. K. Ang, Teng Hong Tan, W.A.W. Walters et al. · BMJ · 1969 · 77 citations · Full text

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Parturitional Posture and Related Birth Behavior

Richard J. Atwood · Acta Obstetricia Et Gynecologica Scandinavica · 1976 · 74 citations

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Upright versus lying down position in second stage of labour in nulliparous women with low dose epidural: BUMPES randomised controlled trial

BMJ · 2017 · 72 citations · Full text

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Authors

171

  1. MO
    Michele Ondeck

    2 publications · 62 citations

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  2. PR
    Pratibha R Vaidya

    Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital and Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College, India

    2 publications · 51 citations

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  3. GJ
    G Justus Hofmeyr

    University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

    2 publications · 66 citations

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  4. RC
    R. Caldeyro‐Barcia

    Universidad de Montevideo, Uruguay

    2 publications · 83 citations

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  5. GA
    Gautam Allahbadia

    Rotunda – The Center for Human Reproduction, India

    2 publications · 51 citations

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Institutions

86

  1. Karolinska Institutet

    Stockholm, Sweden

    2 h-index

    5 publications

    244 citations

  2. Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital and Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College

    Mumbai, India

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    80 citations

  3. Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)

    Campinas, Brazil

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    75 citations

  4. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    3 publications

    75 citations

  5. University of Technology Sydney

    Sydney, Australia

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    38 citations

  6. Mutah University

    Karak, Jordan

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    38 citations

  7. Université de Poitiers

    Poitiers, France

    1 h-index

    3 publications

    54 citations

  8. IS practice

    Brussels, Belgium

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    56 citations

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Venues

  1. PubMed

    Repository · 7 publications · 192 citations

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  3. Acta Obstetricia Et Gynecologica Scandinavica

    3 publications · 114 citations

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  4. Birth

    2 publications · 105 citations

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  5. The Journal of Perinatal Education

    2 publications · 62 citations

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