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Spinning babies

KatetheGreat79KatetheGreat79 member
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Any ladies wanna give their input as to what they used and liked from this site? I have been to it several times and always feel a bit overwhelmed. Right now baby is for sure head down but often in and OPish position. I'm assumjng this because I often feel knees in the top front and sometimes smaller pokes down low center.

For mobile users I am 37 weeks 2 days.

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Re: Spinning babies

  • halfthetree halfthetree member
    Spinning babies.com

    Also, my midwife was telling me she flipped a breach baby by using an electric toothbrush on the belly near the baby's head, and sort of annoying the baby until it went head down lol and to think that an OB would have just cut the woman open.

    Keep in mind too that your baby could not engage until active labor, so don't stress too much right now. Do some inversions and belly rocking in the mean time. I would be more worried about spinning the baby if I was about 40w5d or something like that.
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  • Five LivesFive Lives member
    I found it very helpful in the past with the belly mapping, and the suggestions for helping OP babies into OA. But, even more useful to me was Penny Simkin's book The Labor Progress Handbook. I recommend it to anyone who wants to be active in promoting their own baby's safe delivery. Also, I gave a copy to my family doctor. If I could, I'd force all midwives, labor and delivery nurses, and OBs to read it.
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  • KatetheGreat79KatetheGreat79 member
    imageFive Lives:
    I found it very helpful in the past with the belly mapping, and the suggestions for helping OP babies into OA. But, even more useful to me was Penny Simkin's book The Labor Progress Handbook. I recommend it to anyone who wants to be active in promoting their own baby's safe delivery. Also, I gave a copy to my family doctor. If I could, I'd force all midwives, labor and delivery nurses, and OBs to read it.


    Thank you for this suggestion! I am going to read this!
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  • KatetheGreat79KatetheGreat79 member
    imagejoules235:
    For helping OP babies the abdominal lift and tuck works really well. It can also help speed up labor.


    Thanks!
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  • aylafsu88aylafsu88 member
    I had an anterior placenta and was concerned LO was OP.  I did several of the positions spinning babies recommended starting at 34 weeks (like inversions, hands and knees etc).  I thought they were OK but I am not sure it made a difference.  My doula was pretty sure that my LO was OP while I was in labor.  I had erratic contractions and when she tried to palpate my stomach she did not feel much.  I spent a lot of time on my hands and knees in labor.  She also had me do some positions to help rotate baby during contractions (like standing at the wall with one leg up on the bathtub and rotating my hips in a circle, hands and knees with my hips/butt elevated in the air). Babies can turn in labor so try not to worry to much about it right now.  Being head down is the most important thing at this point!  GL!
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  • J&Jaggies06J&Jaggies06 member
    We think mine was OP so my doula recommended inversions once a day and 20 pelvic tilts then rebozo then 20 more. Within a couple days baby seemed more up and down. 
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  • Five LivesFive Lives member
    Glad I could help. ;)
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  • A37liciaA37licia member

    I used the rebozo sifting to turn my oft-OP baby back to anterior on a night at 39w where I was feeling intestinal cramping and was pretty tired. I went to bed after we turned her, woke up with my water breaking and she was born 2 hours later. Highly recommend.

    What it taught me in the belly mapping section has been very valuable to me. I observe baby's position when I can now, with #3, and while he can still move for a little while longer since I'm only 31w, he's left anterior much of the time. There is a lot more to position than head down vs breech!

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