A Right and Wrong Way to Squat When Giving Birth

Reader Contribution by Lisa Marie Morgan and Dancing For Birth
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I always tell my Dancing for Birth students to worry less about dancing correctly and more about trusting their bodies, as I want them to do in birth, with one exception — squats.

After I demonstrated a true birth squat in class one evening, a student asked, “Why doesn’t everyone else know this?” I was stopped by her question. It reminded me that many childbirth professionals and educators are still teaching and having mommas squat incorrectly.

Women in correct, parallel squat, as drawn by Vincent Van Gogh 

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