Basically, spend heaps of time during the last 6 weeks of pregnancy on hands & knees or hands & elbows, letting your belly hang to let gravity encourage the baby to be forward-lying.
Forward leaning positions and hands & knees are ideal for coping with a posterior labour.
A labour that does need special care with positioning is a labour with a right- lying baby. Sometimes they want to rotate anti-clockwise the long way round to get to the left from position before descending into your pelvis. This labour will take lots of work and patience - but all is not lost. If you sense this is what your babe is doing, going on hands and ke=nees will have your baby trying to rotate uphill! That will be frustrating for you both. So - the plan becomes - lie on right side - then upright - then left side - then hands and knees.
Check out "Rotational Foetal Positioning" by Nikki McFarlane of Childbirth International.
I would be interested to hear from anyone who has used this technique with good results or who has an opinion on its validity.
A Chiropractor can use the gentle Webster Technique to help your pelvis relax so that your baby is not prevented from moving into the front-lying position.
A doula can be a great help with suggesting & encouraing mobility & positions to help manage a posterior labour.
Also, submerging in deep water can be a great help because not only is it very soothing but the bouyancy can really help you choose positions to help your baby rotate forward.
Last edited by Julie Doula; June 14th, 2007 at 08:58 PM.
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