I havent read all the other responces yet but thought id share my story with you. Ds was prosterior - long stop start labour, painfull in my opinion too. 17 hour active labour after 24 hours of pre labour - just not nice! Waters broke naturally and after another 4 hours of active labour i still hadnt dilated further. I ended up having the drip put in and an epi and ds was born sunny side up after 1.5 hours of pushing with the aid of the vaccum and an episiotamy.

DD was breach until 32 weeks when she flipped to prosterior. After having an OP birth before i wanted to avoid it completely if possible as i wanted to have a natural birth if possible and i believed that i could have with ds if he wasnt OP too. I started doing inversion and spinning exercises as given to me by my middy. Unfortunately for me all the heartburn from hanging upside down for hours each day wasnt worth te effort as she stayed in the same position for antother 9 weeks until she was born.

Everyone kept saying not to worry that she would probably turn during labour and i thought so too as she hadnt actually engaged yet. Nope, she didnt and i gave birth to another sunny side up baby BUT this time my active labour was 5 hours and even the first 2.5 hours of that was a little sporatic. Pushing was 30 mins and i had her drug free (well i did have gas and lots of it lol) with only a first degree tear (which did require stitching) and a small graze.

I guess i wanted to share as for me even though it still wasnt the birth i had envisioned, it was soooo much better then ds's (although more painful but i dont know if that was because i had an epi with him or that dd's was quicker?). So if you have done it before then you can do it again!!!