Hi Alan, I just tweaked the thread title a bit - I hope you don't mind?
I have had 2 OP babies during labour and yep, it sure isn't the easiest way to birth LOL. But defiantely doable if you are given the time to do it. And mine weren't small babies either.
With my 2nd ds he was posteriour and i didn't even know it! I walked around all day before he was born in pain each time i had a contraction and when i finally got to the hospi at 630pm he was still posteriour and i couldn't sit in a wheel chair properly! he was posteriour right up until my waters broke which is when he must of turned around. he was born just under 1hr after my waters broke!
I do have a question - while my mids were fantastic during labour they never really told me much (screw them, and thank goodness for BB, I say) but I assume they would have told me if he was posterior? I know he was born anterior, but I'm sure he didn't turn until about five minutes before he was born (I could be wrong obviously) I had Sterile Water Injections for backpain and for forty minutes I walked around as if I wasn't in labour anymore - I could barely feel the contractions anymore. Does that mean that the labour was posterior or not?
After my waters broke I could no longer sit, or lay down, even being on all fours was painful, I laboured the last seven hours standing up. I'm just curious.
Both of my younger 2 were posterior. Both labours were extremely painful in my back. With DS I was put over a bean bag & that relieved the pain instantly.
Unfortunately he was distressed to, so I had to turn over to be monitored. But it helped. Both labours were drug free! Well I demanded pethidine with DS, but it didn't kick in til after he was born.
I rocked on an exercise ball for 2 - 3 hours to turn DD2 around!
My younger brother was a posterior baby... Mum said labour was all in her back. I suppose what made it worse was that she had to labour on her back in stirups... poor women!! So I think we are much better off now-a-days and can active births
Ash - posterior labour is generally back labour, and you will know it. With both my labours, each contraction was all in my back, and I honestly thought my back was going to break. Both my girls turned as their heads crowned. I didn't realise this, the midwife told me as it was happening (as I was pushing mind you!).
With Nina, it was only that I asked that the midwife told me she was posterior. With Emily, the midwife told me as soon as I got to hospital, and she encouraged me to be in certain positions to try and turn her around. None of which worked mind you.
Does anyone know if you are more likely to have another posterior baby if you've had one already? Shape of the pelvis or something. It seems there are a few of you out there who have had more than one...
My DD was posterior and labour was not that bad at all....until the med staff decided I wasn't progressing (oh that's why the contractions weren't that bad!) and put in the syntocin...OUCH..the back pain was SOOOO bad...then I couldn't stand it any longer and went for pethidine and epidural....24 hours later DD was yanked out with forceps...my pelvic floor is kaput! Poor DDs head was a massive cone!
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