Hi Tanya, first I was in the bed with the back of it fully raised while I pushing and then we tried squatting over the beanbag as there was a bit of a lip on my cervix, which wen away within 10 minutes of being on the beanbag, but as I had a rather strong epidural (when it hadn't slipped) as well I wasn't able to feel the contractions as they came, so I had to go by what the midwives & my ob were telling me. I think I was pushing for about 10 hours straight, but it all blurs up a lot as I was inhaling the gas like there was no tomorrow and passing out between contractions lol

It was only when I had the c-section that they realised my DS wasn't going to come out naturally, his head was well and truly wedged into my pelvis.

It probably didn't help that part of the labour was rather traumatic when I spent most of the night before where the epidural had slipped by approx 3-4mm and left me able to feel every contraction across half of my body. I didn't get any sleep that night, and when I had to start pushing I was exhausted, so that might have had a bad effect on my chances of being able to give birth vaginally.

I was told afterwards by my OB (who was the best in my opinion and I wish she hadn't retired as she was all for me trying for a VBAC with my second baby) that I had the choice of getting CT & X-ray pelvimetry done, but that it wasn't accurate and most doctors would either not go by the pelvimetry scans or wouldn't allow me to have a VBAC.