Birthing Positions at HH and CW

Re: Birthing Positions at HH and CW

• shipmra member

  October 2012

  I don't know about Huntsville Hospital, but I birthed at Crestwood and they will let you do whatever positions your doctor allows if you haven't had an epidural (my doctor would let me try anything).
  

  I think it's more up to your OB than anything else, but I will say that after a long, non-progressing labor, I ended up getting an epidural (planned for natural and to push with the squatting bar, but 32 hrs of labor and an occiput posterior positioned baby nixed that) and the epidural will limit which positions are safe for you to push in because you have limited/no feeling/control of your legs.  When it came time to push, I wanted to change positions.  Once I proved that I had enough feeling and control in my legs, the nurses agreed to let me try hands and knees if I wanted, but by then I'd made enough progress that I didn't want to switch it up. Before then, I pushed on my back and on my side. 
  

  (BTW, the tubs in the LDRP rooms at HH are sooo nice if you're trying to go natural or at least hold out for a little while before getting an epidural!)

  
  

  Baby number two due May 14, 2014!
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

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• clarissmalone member

  October 2012

  Thanks for your help. Yes I plan to go natural. I know that plans don't always work out. I had my first kid natural but I always felt that I worked waaaay to hard pushing on my back. I want to try a natural position. I have a great Dr. who agreed to let me try any position.

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