Hi guys

Thanks for all your responses.

Hoobley - I'll be reading the Spinning Babies website religiously next time around!

Michael - I don't think I could have coped with a slower labour LOL - I had 72 hours of pre-labour and went into established labour having had 7 hours sleep in 3 days so that was the main reason I had the epidural. I'm not saying the pain wasn't a factor (!) but basically I wanted a rest. Plus I'd had an unstable pelvis since week 28 and 3 months later it's still ouchy so I regard that 4 hours as the most blissful pain-free half-day of my recent life! Anyhow, I suppose my real question was how likely is it in a normal epidural-less labour that babies get stuck regardless of whether they're posterior or not? Given that forceps were invented because babies do get stuck and that until recently around 15% (from memory) of babies were birthed using forceps, it seems reasonably common? Or are you saying that in the majority of cases babies can be unstuck by using different positional techniques?

Sorry to harp on about it, just really curious! Plus I'm going to see my ob in a couple of weeks so want to ask him about it too.