Women were never meant to give birth on their backs

I wonder what it would take to get hospitals to change how women give birth based on this scientific evidence.

I was curious about the claim so I did a web search for "Roman depiction of birth" and this is the first result:

https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/1200x627/18720.jpg

The mother appears to be sedentary, rather than supine. I doubt I would have noticed that detail had I not read the article.

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