1. Ishtar Ishtar," the goddess Ishtar, "cried out like a woman in labor .

2. He suffers convulsions like those of a woman in labor, and his heart “has wandered about.”

3. A Jewish woman was not allowed to aid a Gentile woman in labor because she would thereby “be assisting to bring to birth a child for idolatry.”

4. The movability of the bed along the vertical (V) and longitudinal (L) directions minimize efforts of the medical staff when moving the parturient and allows to carry the woman in labor beyond the perimeter of the tub as if she were on a bed for traditional delivery in order to perform afterbirth and other post-partum operations, that cannot be performed with the apparatuses known in the art, and to transfer the parturient in an easy, quick and safe manner in case of an emergency, simply by placing side-by-side a common hospital bed and the bed of the apparatus according to the present invention.