I didn't have stitches with any of mine. I had a 1st degree tear with DD2. I dunno if it really was better to leave it or the ob left it more coz of my fear of them!
But with DS I didn't even graze.
Both posterior, & both SO different.
My bub was posterior. The back pain was pretty strong (umm really really strong) and I don't really remember any tummy pain through it. I was strapped to the bed for monitoring (bubs HR kept dipping cos of an induction) so didnt get to do a lot of the things I had planned. I got through it just with gas. Plus no stitches even with his hand up near his ear. So if a natural birth is what you want it can be done with a posterior bub.
Cookiemonster
Your midwives may not have told you that your baby was posterior. Back pain is a sign of a posterior baby so there is a good chance that your baby was posterior.
Sophia
As far as I know just because you had one posterior baby does not mean that you will have another one.
Sophia, my first two babies were anterior presentation, the second two were posterior. There is no rhyme or reason for it a lot of the time - most babies will turn during labour and some need to turn to start labour off. With my first posterior birth I had no idea till she was nearly crowning and the midwife commented that she still hadn't turned - she knew the position she was in but didn't tell me. Second time I knew it from the start.
You wont always get the back pain with them either, or if you have back pain it wont always mean a posterior baby either. I actually didn't have a lot of back pain with my OP babies, but being in positions favourable to OP presentation certainly made contractions easier to deal with.
I'm still not convinced that the size of my OP babies had anything to do with them being OP (they were 4.32 and 4.56kg), I think it was just one of those things.
My third bub was born posterior and with the cord around his neck, I did not know this till the midwife told me, even she was suprised, my labour was drug free 55 minute, no stiches. He weighed was 7lb 1oz. I found not being on my back helped so much, i birthed on my knees leaning over the bed. My second i suspect was posterior as well, the labour with him was all in the back and very painful, again a 40 minute labour, drug free and no stiches.I had him in the shower standing (at the hospital).He weighed 8lb 10 oz. My first was the right way around. No stiches 4 hour labour 7lb 3 oz.
DS was 18 hours, cord around his neck and from what it seems posterior labour, and no tears (yay lol). I believe he turned just before he crowned, although I could be wrong, the two contractions before I was pushing (which was two contractions) were the most amazing sensation, and it felt so entirely different to the rest of the labour.
Yeah, I can vouch for the difference in pushing out a baby with a malpositioned head and body to one that is the right way round. My first OP birth wasn't that bad with the pushing because she stayed OP and had her chin nicely tucked into her chest, so it wasn't a great deal different to the first two I had but with Alister, he was posterior for the first few pushes and then tried to turn, but got so far as a LOT position (where the baby is laying along the left side, facing towards the right) and the pushing felt so much different - I just knew that something wasn't right because I couldn't feel him move further down with each push. But then his head turned so he was looking over his right shoulder and I knew the instant that his head had turned because on the next push he went from being barely on view to being on the perenium even though his body stayed in the LOT position. So we did have some shoulder dystocia because of his position.
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