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DD was posterior as well Ren, My OB told me yesterday that if you get on all 4's for approx 10 - 15 mins a few times a day that it helps bub to spin around a face the correct way - also when sitting on a chair sit on it backwards (so the back is at your front) and lean fwd a bit - makes gravity spin bub around. Ill be giving it a go and see what happens.
Good luck!
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Did he say when to start doing that? Like after 30 weeks? Or now?
Aligater - thanks! That gives me some hope then!
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He said that you can do it at any stage and to start doing it every day from now... I dont think it matters how far you are it just encourages bub to face the right way.
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lol i share ur fears hun, fingers crossed for a baby coming out the right way this time!!
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Thank you!! Might start doing that TODAY
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Yep I have started as of yesterday, I find it easy if I play with DD on the floor I just get on all 4s for a while and then go back to sitting - I can actually feel bub rotate at times while im doing it!
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Hi Shanti, I know exactly where youre coming from! My DD was posterior and I had a week of pre labour, 16 hours of labour all up with 3 hours of pushing. I had 4th degree tears. No drugs!! I think the shape of your pelvis or uterus can play a big part in it from what I have been told. ALso, I did EVERYTHING to change my DDs position leading up to the birth (she was posterior for 6 weeks and engaged for 4) and it didnt do anything. Might be pelvis shape, might be because she was extremely squashed in there because I didnt seem to grow very big even though she was 3.5kg and 52cm long, who knows. Her head was the hardest bit - it was in the 90th percentile. Extremely painful.
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They are damn painful babies to birth! Hats off to you doing it drug free!!!
From what I've been told (possibly misinformed) it's a case of luck of the draw. I tried lots of things to turn DD and she did spin but then she'd spin again.....and again....and so on right up until she was locked into the birth canal - in the posterior position
I had an awful lot of amniotic fluid though so I'm not sure if that made much difference.
My midwife and OB's (my OB plus the one that delivered DD as mine was away) all said the chances of another posterior birth in the future was unlikely as although they are normal, they aren't super common. The likelihood didn't increase or decrease because I've had one though, it really was just 'one of those things'.
It definitely can't hurt to try some techniques from the Spinning Babies website though. Despite everything I just wrote, I'll be doing that with me next pregnancy.
Good luck hon. I'll be stalking you!
My Midwife/Doula told me that baby turns during labour so trying to get them into an anterior position prior to labour means very little. If you're going to have a posterior labour you won't know about it until you're actually IN labour.
However, she also said that there are positions you can assume DURING labour that can help turn a posterior baby to anterior. I don't know what those positions are, cause although I had a hell of a lot of backpain, DS kept moving himself back and forth during labour (we think). I expect some of those positions include on all fours.
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Good posture during pregnancy can definitely help hun, lying on the couch on your left hand side if you want to lie down otherwise don't slouch back because it just bub want to slouch on your back too
Good luck hun - Izzy was posterior too and it's definitely not nice. xoxo
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Must be something in the name, that's DD's nickname too
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DS2 was also posterior it is so much more painfull than the other lol i to am hoping this one isnt the same too. Ive also just been told posture and getting on all 4's helps il let you know how i go lol
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Apparently in cultures where squatting is common, and reclining on couches/chairs is uncommon (ie. third world countries, where the women might squat to cook by the fire, etc.) posterior babies are very uncommon. That might give you a bit of an idea as to what to avoid and what to do.
For what it's worth, I've had five babies, and they have all sat the same way through the late weeks of my pregnancies. They all were head down, with their backs on my right side. Since babies usually rotate clockwise in labour, not counterclockwise, they all might have been posterior births. My first, second, and fourth all moved to anterior on their own during labour, without back labour. My third flipped right as I was pushing and came out really fast then! My fifth was born as a posterior brow presentation. (At home. Without drugs. One heck of a lot of pushing! Ouch! His birth story is on here if you are curious.) It was during that pregnancy that I did the most "hands and knees" stuff, which should have put him the right way!
What I'm trying to say is, there are things that can help prevent a posterior birth, but sometimes babies will just do their own thing, good or bad.
I think that the first birth is usually the worst. That was definitely my experience anyways! I'd rather experience my posterior delivery again compared to my first delivery! This baby will likely be easier even if he/she presents the same way.
And, you know you can do it!All the best for a great birth!
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