Combination pelvic rocking exercises with belly dance to reduce labor pain

Background: Labor pain will get more substantial along with the increase in cervical dilatation and can affect the mother's psychological condition and the welfare of the fetus. Pelvic rocking exercises help reduce pain during labor, but the combined pelvic rocking exercises with belly dance for birth have not been studied. In this study, combining pelvic rocking exercises with belly dance for birth as physical preparation and exercise, especially in the pelvic area, can reduce pain effectively and efficiently so that mothers can give birth vaginally.Purpose: Analyze the effect of intervention combination of pelvic rocking exercises with belly dance for birth to pain intensity of first stage the active phase in mother birth.Methods: This is Quasy experimental research with pretest and posttest with control group design. Respondents were primigravida mothers during the first stage of the active phase. Determination of respondents by accidental sampling obtained the treatment group (n=17) and control group (n=17). The intervention was given for 20 minutes every 1 hour during the first stage of the active phase.Result: The combined intervention of pelvic rocking exercises with belly dance for birth was effective in reducing pain intensity as seen from the average decrease in pain intensity every hour, at the 1st hour of 4.0, the 2nd hour of 3.0, the 3rd hour of 2.7, and the 4th hour of 2.6 (p<0.001)Conclusion: The combination of pelvic rocking exercises with belly dance for birth is effective to pain intensity of the first stage, the active phase in women giving birth.

An Ancient Art form to a Therapeutic Intervention- Belly Dancing & Women’s Health

Introduction: Dance or movement therapy has been proved to have a curative power for ages. Physical fitness is controlled by a combination of the potential the person has in doing his/her own regular activity and genetically inherited capability. Belly dance is an expressionistic type of dance that initially originated in Egypt which lays emphasis on complex movements of the trunk. Belly dancing has gracefully swayed its way to mainstream cardiovascular and musculoskeletal fitness all over the world, with significant impact on women’s health. Objective: To provide concise overview of Belly dancing and its effects on women’s health. Methods: A Search of PUBMED, CINHAL, Google Scholar. database was conducted to find relevant studies in relation to Belly dancing as a therapeutic intervention in the paradigm of women’s health. The studies that met with the inclusion criteria were included in this review. Results: This review provides a crisp understanding of the impact of Belly dancing on several pathologies namely, breast cancer, urinary incontinence, fibromyalgia, malignancies and low back pain. It also discusses about the biomechanical aspects of abdomen and pelvis that are involved during belly dancing. Conclusion: The study provides an up-to-date outline of the existing literature on Belly Dancing and women’s health. It lays emphasis on the effects of belly dancing as an intervention used to enhance women’s health cohesively.

SEEING THE BELLY DANCE AS A FEMINIST POSSIBILITY: GAZE, GENDER AND PUBLIC SPACE IN ISTANBUL

This paper discusses the ancient form of belly dance as an example to speak more in depth about the public spaces of Istanbul, where the female body is constantly under surveillance by the male gaze. Over thousands of years, the ancient dance form of belly dance has been transformed from a collective women’s ritual to a form of entertainment that serves the male gaze. This paper looks for the possibilities tore-define belly dance as a feminist counter strategy to revive its essence. Framed by the Muted Group Theory, this paper also exemplifies various artworks and strategies produced by female artists and analyze them in the light of this theory. It also searches for redefining the belly dance as part of a feminist identity and asks whether these artistic strategies could be pathways in re-defining belly dance as a feminist practice. KeywordsFeminism. Public Space. Belly Dance. Muted Group. Gender.

PENGARUH BELLY DANCE DIKOMBINASIKAN DENGAN PIJAT ENDORPHIN TERHADAP PENGURANGAN RASA NYERI PADA IBU BERSALIN KALA 1

Physiologically, all women who give birth will experience pain during labor process and statistically, labor pain cannot be tolerated by two out of three mothers. Women who get massages during labor will experience a significant decrease in anxiety, reduction in pain, and shorter delivery time. No wonder that endorphin massage technique is important to be mastered by pregnant women and husbands who enter the gestational age of the 36th week. The second thing that can be done to deal with the labor pain besides the endorphin massage is dancing. Dancing is a performance art but also can heal and free someone, especially the pregnant women who suffer from psychological disorders. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of belly dance combined with endorphin massage in reducing pain in the first stage of labor at the Beringin Health Center Tapian Dolok District, Simalungun Regency. The hypothesis in this study was belly dance and endorphin massage were effective in reducing pain in primiparous mothers. The type of this research was a quasi-experiment. The design of this study was pre and post-test design. The required number of samples was 16 + 1.6 = 17.6 or n = 18 samples, that was the sample size for the control group was 18 samples and the sample size for the treatment group was 18 samples, so the total number of samples needed in this study were n = 36 respondents. The results showed that there was an effect of endorphin massage combined with belly dance (asymp.sig 0.004) on reducing pain in first stage of labor. This study is expected to provide an education to pregnant women about the importance of the belly dance combined with endorphin massage in reducing pain in first stage of labor, so that pregnant women can do a belly dance combined with endorphin massage at home.