Doctors at Allegheny Health Network Forbes Hospital in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, suburb of Monroeville, are launching a new program aimed at helping mothers during labor and delivery."I think this is one of the more exciting things that I've seen in obstetrics in the last 40 years," said Dr. Benjamin Peticca. He is the medical director for AHN Forbes' maternity unit.He and his daughter, Dr. Katie Peticca, make up part of the labor and delivery team at AHN Forbes that teamed up with their pelvic floor therapy team to use knowledge from a recent workshop to develop what they call "purposeful positioning" to help moms deliver their babies safely.Dr. Katie Peticca said, "The new initiative is purposeful positioning, where it's even more intentional positions for moms in labor in the hopes it will help create spaces in different areas of her pelvis to help the baby pass through the birth canal and descend in labor in a more ergonomic position."She used this technique to help Rachel Balog deliver her baby boy after her labor stalled when she was 9 millimeters dilated for six hours."Having this option was amazing," Balog said. "I didn't have to take any medicine. It was just using my own body to help get my son out faster. (It) prevented the cesarean section from happening and also my labor experience. I only had to push for five minutes, and then he was out, because this had expedited a lot of the waiting and agonizing and exhaustive part of labor. We went through it a lot faster." This meant she could hold her son for the first time even sooner.AHN said the purposeful positioning program was largely informed by a birthing education and training system called "Spinning Babies" that a midwife developed in the late 90s.