Hoobley every time i read one of your birthing posts i feel so reassured and positve about the whole birth body working together....your a champ
Some of the smallest women i have ever come across, friends...friends of friends etc have had some of the bigger babies amongst us all, so just because you are smaller framed and a little more petite don't think you can't birth your baby or a bigger baby. As some of the other ladies have said try to stay mobile/active as possible and positions during birthing are real important too. I can vouch for the positions personally as my DS didn't want to budge when i was on my back and it felt really unnatural as well but as soon as i was on all fours, that was it he was out probably in 10-15 minutes without any tearing.
I agree - gravity really helps. I was watching a tv show on fox about pregnancy and births - an american show - and I can't understand why every doctor has the woman lie down practically flat on her back to give birth, legs high up in the air in stirrups. When I had DS (my first), I had an epidural due to my blood pressure being very high, and when it came time to push (they had to tell me cause I couldn't feel a thing), nothing was happening for ages. Then they started worrying about him being obstructed, so they decided to get forceps ready. To make using the forceps easier, they had me sit up straighter and move my legs further apart - and lo and behold, with the change of position, DS moved down and was born within a few minutes, without the need for the forceps. I can't believe that nobody had suggested before that changing position might help - I almost ended up with another intervention unnecessarily! With my last birth, I did it upright - kneeling on the bed facing away from everyone with the head of the bed for support. I firmly believe that this is what helped me give birth to a 9lb 9oz bubba girl with no complications, or interventions.
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