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Childbirth in Other Cultures
By tradition, pregnant Arabic women would practice the dance that Westerners call "belly dancing" as a way of strengthening their abdominal muscles in preparation for childbirth. During labor, the mother was encircled by her fellow tribeswomen who danced by her bedside in an effort to "hypnotize" her into imitating the movements with her own body. The dance movements helped reduce the pain of labor and helped the mother work with her contractions to push the baby out.
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