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Midwife invents a moving mattress to help in childbirth
Anna von Siebenthal demonstrates how to use the Vibwife mattress, which replicates movements that can help to ease labour. Vibwife
As a young midwife, Anna von Siebenthal was frustrated at not having enough time to spend with women in labour. Inspired by a real-life emergency, she developed a special childbirth mattress based on mobilisation technology, soon to be produced by Europe’s largest hospital bed manufacturer.
This content was published on December 16, 2020 - 18:26
December 16, 2020 - 18:26
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“When I was working as a young midwife student in a hospital, we had a woman transferred from a home birth,” Anna says. “She was fully dilated but the baby was not coming out. To get from home to the hospital she was moved on and off the trolley and bumped around a little on the ambulance ride.”