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!
I didn't even know until my ob told me after DD was born that she'd been posterior - the pain level was about what I expected but it was the length of the labour, not the pain, that was the killer.
When people ask me if I had drugs, I say, "yes, after two and a half days with barely any sleep, the epidural looked like a mighty fine idea."
I'm surprised at the quickness of some of the posterior babies on here - I thought they were notoriously slow. As I said, the pain wasn't any worse than I'd expected, just the fact that it went on ... and on ... and on.
My first 3 babies were not posterior, but my 4th was and I knew nothing about it! I hadn't even read up on it as I just expected this labour to be like the rest, LOL, quick and easy.
I had pre-labour for 16 hours (I had never experienced pre-labour before, my other 3 labours were only 4 to 6 hours from 1st contraction), I then went to the hospital where they told me my baby was posterior and i was NOT dilated after 16 hours!!. I didn't really know what that meant (and they didn't really explain it too well) but anyway, they gave me a stretch and sweep and four hours later my little man was born, the second stage of labour (pushing) only lasted 9 minutes and Jack was straight on the boob and fed for an hour, he didn't even get weighed or cleaned up untill after he was fed, it was beautiful.
With my first posterior I had alot of pre labour, but i'm not too sure if it was prelabour. If it was then it only took about 3 hours to dialate 7 cm, but another 4 - 5 hours to go the last 3 cm.
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