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PSA: How to Prevent a Posterior Labor

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Take it from me back labor is horrible.  I had 27 hours of it with DS (natural), and I will be doing anything and everything to avoid a posterior baby this time.  Take a look at this article because it is never too early to start changing your bad habits.

https://www.motherspirit.net/articles/pregnancy/preventpost.htm

 

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  • LindseyJWLindseyJW member

    thanks for sharing this article!

    signed,

    finally recovered from 40+ hours of posterior labor

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  • MTClaireMTClaire member

    I appreciate the link, but it is kind of a funny article.  Here are some things about that article that made me laugh:

    "Talk to your baby; ask him/her to turn to anterior (or better yet, ask him/her to turn to a position that will help labor?sometimes there is a good reason for baby to be posterior)."  Is this a joke?

    "Visualize an anterior baby, preferably LOA (left occiput anterior) with baby?s bum in your front, but slightly to the left of your belly button."  Yes, I'm sure that will work!   

    "First thing is to get into a knee-to-chest position and stay there for at least 45 minutes, or until baby turns. Be sure to have lots of pillows on hand so you can stay in this position comfortably for as long as is required."  What?!?  I haven't been able to put my knees to my chest in months so why would I be able to do that during labor? 

    "It?s possible for your caregiver to jiggle your thighs (basically grabbing the inside of your thighs and shaking really hard) during labor to help relax your whole pelvis and ?shake? baby into position. This has been known to work very well. Jiggling the fatty part of the hips can help too. Your partner, a friend or other birth attendants, of course can do this as well."  I don't even know what to say about this.  Just what I want - my doctor jiggling my fat hips and thighs.  Haha. 

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  • MexicoBride0507MexicoBride0507
    imageMTClaire:

    I appreciate the link, but it is kind of a funny article.  Here are some things about that article that made me laugh:

    "Talk to your baby; ask him/her to turn to anterior (or better yet, ask him/her to turn to a position that will help labor?sometimes there is a good reason for baby to be posterior)."  Is this a joke?

    "Visualize an anterior baby, preferably LOA (left occiput anterior) with baby?s bum in your front, but slightly to the left of your belly button."  Yes, I'm sure that will work!   

    "First thing is to get into a knee-to-chest position and stay there for at least 45 minutes, or until baby turns. Be sure to have lots of pillows on hand so you can stay in this position comfortably for as long as is required."  What?!?  I haven't been able to put my knees to my chest in months so why would I be able to do that during labor? 

    "It?s possible for your caregiver to jiggle your thighs (basically grabbing the inside of your thighs and shaking really hard) during labor to help relax your whole pelvis and ?shake? baby into position. This has been known to work very well. Jiggling the fatty part of the hips can help too. Your partner, a friend or other birth attendants, of course can do this as well."  I don't even know what to say about this.  Just what I want - my doctor jiggling my fat hips and thighs.  Haha. 

    You have to take every ting with a grain of salt and do what you are comfortable with.  But trust me, when you are in the middle of back labor you will try ANYTHING to get your baby to turn. Never say never.

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  • AllieJeanAllieJean
    imageMTClaire:

    I appreciate the link, but it is kind of a funny article.  Here are some things about that article that made me laugh:

    "Talk to your baby; ask him/her to turn to anterior (or better yet, ask him/her to turn to a position that will help labor?sometimes there is a good reason for baby to be posterior)."  Is this a joke?

    "Visualize an anterior baby, preferably LOA (left occiput anterior) with baby?s bum in your front, but slightly to the left of your belly button."  Yes, I'm sure that will work!   

    "First thing is to get into a knee-to-chest position and stay there for at least 45 minutes, or until baby turns. Be sure to have lots of pillows on hand so you can stay in this position comfortably for as long as is required."  What?!?  I haven't been able to put my knees to my chest in months so why would I be able to do that during labor? 

    "It?s possible for your caregiver to jiggle your thighs (basically grabbing the inside of your thighs and shaking really hard) during labor to help relax your whole pelvis and ?shake? baby into position. This has been known to work very well. Jiggling the fatty part of the hips can help too. Your partner, a friend or other birth attendants, of course can do this as well."  I don't even know what to say about this.  Just what I want - my doctor jiggling my fat hips and thighs.  Haha. 

    The knees to chest thing is something that you would start doing now, not necessarily in labor, and the thigh jiggling thing is huge in midwifery circles, and I have heard/read in several places that it works wonders.

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  • MTClaireMTClaire member
    Oh, my baby is posterior, so I'll be feeling it next week when I'm induced. And that article says to do the knees to chest thing DURING labor.  I have tried lots of those techniques, and maybe they will help some people.  They didn't work for me.  I'm not saying they don't work at all, I just thought some of them sounded really funny. 
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  • IndiechixorIndiechixor

    During my birthing class our doula showed us "sifting" the baby using a blanket or sheet... seemed interesting.

    Also, leaning forward while sitting (semi sticking your butt out) will keep LO from shifting around because you are keeping the head stuck down.

    Nolan & Luke!
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  • Ready2006Ready2006 member
    Thanks! If baby is breech or posterior, I'll try any OWT to get it to move--I'm using hypnobirthing and a back labor certainly makes that harder! And I have heard of the knees to chest and jiggling of thighs (I heard to have your birth coach do it) before.
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  • LA_sportsgalLA_sportsgal
    I had a posterior labor which led to a cervical lip and eventually a c-section.  I would do anything in that article to prevent it again.  Seriously.  Laugh if you must, but when it's happening to you, you'll do summersaults naked down the hospital hallways if they tell you that will alleviate the pain.
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  • LindseyJWLindseyJW member

    imageLA_sportsgal:
    I had a posterior labor which led to a cervical lip and eventually a c-section.  I would do anything in that article to prevent it again.  Seriously.  Laugh if you must, but when it's happening to you, you'll do summersaults naked down the hospital hallways if they tell you that will alleviate the pain.

    ...or, prevent that c/s. that was my story too. sans the cervical lip. plus 40+ hours of labor.

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