This article presents a reflection on the determinants factors that lead to changes in the position of woman from vertical to horizontal in the delivery process. The institutionalization of the labor and birth process that promoted a lot of changes in the woman and family assistance. Many practicals preserved the autonomy respect and the cultural values that give place to other ones that valued the technology, the medicalization and the intervention. Such changes didn't make possible a significant reduction in the mother mortality and neonatal, in other way, they promoted the lack of humanization in the assistance. A new look on the ambulation effect and the position during labor and delivery is been encouraged and giving opportunity to became evident a variety of vantages and benefits to the mother and child.
Labor; Delivery, Obstetric; Humanizing Delivery; Evidence-based medicine