Belly Dancing in Preparation for Childbirth
Discussing traditional dance with Angie Sierra enlightened me to the fact that belly dancing was created to prepare women for childbirth.
Even Wall Street Journal reported an occurrence wherein a pregnant woman had her belly dance instructor and husband in the delivery room with her. Mom Deedee Farris-Folkerts pronounced after the birth, “I danced my way through labor.”
Indeed, Barbara Brandt and Gigi Groth Devitt describe belly dancing as the Dance of Childbirth. “Near Eastern religious rites venerated motherhood and prepared women for the efforts of childbirth. Women of the tribe dance around the bedside of the pregnant woman to inspire her to imitate the movements with her stomach and pelvic muscles, thus facilitating delivery and reducing pain.”
Even Medical News Today picked up the Wall Street Journal story, although it offers no medical opinion on the advent of belly dancing as a means to prepare women for childbirth.
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