Carmen i just wanted to chime in here. I slept however i could get comfortable - optimal foetal positioning is NOT going to give you an easy labour if you're totally exhausted because you haven't slept for 2 months! My baby was getting towards posterior ( she wasn't back to back, but she was more than half way there, with her back against the back right side of my ribcage, from lying on my back in the bath for 3 hours) at the start of what turned out to be a 4 hour labour, eventually being in the bath got uncomfortable, i got out, i got leaning forward and rocked (which was what felt most comfortable at the time) and she shifted really quick. Yes, it's important to some extent, but your rest is FAR more important.

For millions and millions of years women have been birthing without the advice of doctors. It is only in the last couple of hundred years in the west that doctors have been cutting people open after death to see what is where and how it works. I KNEW late in pregnancy that i was compressing something because the baby wriggled and poked, my legs went *****ly (pins and needles-y) and i felt breathless - i didn't need a doctor to tell me to move! Your BODY and your BABY will tell you when to move, how to lie etc. Listen to your body - however you are most comfortable, regardless of what the doctor says, is how you should be lying. How many of us have been told by a doctor when in labour to lie on our back even though every muscle, every fibre is SCREAMING at us to move, kneel, rock, walk, squat? The only people i know who needed to be told to move as baby wasn't happy due to blood flow problems were in labour and had had a spinal block or epidural and couldn't FEEL what their body was telling them anymore. Your body will tell you what to do, it will finish growing and birth your baby just FINE, don't stress.

:hugs:

Bx