Help please, especially if you are a middie or training to be one!
I want to ask my antenatal MW what kind of things I could reliably expect my MW (whoever I get assigned) would do during labour without being asked. Is it OK to expect that a MW would assess the fetal position and recommend any kind of action / repositioning etc to get the baby into a better position? If they saw an OP baby, would they always raise the issue and do what they could (if possible) to fix it? This didn't happen in our first labour... until a shift change when I was 8cm and this new MW immediately recognised the OP problem but it was too late for her to try her tricks (something to do with a towel holding up the belly and jiggling it?!?!). We are hoping to avoid it this time. We must have gone through three MW's until the fourth did something.
I don't want to be offensive to my MW, because so far, she is great and knowledgable. I know they have more than one woman to look after, they can't be there 24-7, and sometimes they can't do anything even if they recognised the problem and might not want to dis-spirit the labouring mother with negative news, especially a first time mother.
I don't really understand how unusual OP labour / OP birth is (we had both) and whether or not it is even worth asking about or if it is something all MW's would know how to fix. Right now my birth plan says "natural, ask MW's to be proactive" and not much else. Would a student MW know this stuff?
How much attention is reasonable to expect from a MW during labour? Be honest! Because if the level of attention is less than what we desire then we need to look elsewhere for that. But good MW's are worth their weight in gold and I want to suck them for all the help I can get!
On a related issue, because I can't be farted making another thread is it always possible to turn an OP baby during labour? She is already deeply engaged and ROP and I'm freaking just a little. Part of my preparing for birth with AND is working out as many of these issues before hand as I can. If we can get a good plan together I'm more confident cancelling the elective IOL.
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