Pregnancy Seating

The folks at Varier keep us updated with all sorts of wonderful ergonomic research.  This time, they’ve posted a study regarding the benefits of using kneeling/rocking chairs while pregnant.

Healthy seating equals a healthy baby and mom!

Jean Sutton and Pauline scott, a midwife and antenatal teacher respectively, developed a theory known as Optimal Foetal Positioning, which states that the mother’s movement, posture and positioning can influence the baby’s position in the womb during the last weeks of pregnancy.  This is particularly important if your baby is in a breech or posterior position as birth complications can result.

Enter Varier’s Balans Kneeling Chair.  Already one of our favorite products and best-sellers, the Balans chair encourages proper spinal alignment and pelvic positioning.  The rocking motion of the chair base encourages your baby to rotate and eases the intense back pain that can occur in the latter stages of pregnancy.

The benefits of innovative seating and motion don’t end with your trip to the hospital, however.  Interested in alternative positioning during the birth process?  Try sitting on an exercise ball or an immersion water birth.  The days of stirrups and hospital beds are past us.