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Positioning Baby for Labor

SweetMamaJuneSweetMamaJune member
in June 2016 Moms
Hi all! It's likely a bit early, but my midwife suggested I start doing the daily and weekly exercises on spinningbabies.com (under For Pregnancy) and I thought to share because I love them. It's an interesting read at the very least and the exercises are pretty low key/ easily incorporated into your daily habits. As a FTM I started having back problems from sucking in my tummy and slouching, which are No-Nos!! (Food just started balancing on my bump- no shame in my game!)

We're going for a homebirth with option 2 being our local birthing center and option 3 being a major hospital but I'll just try everything I can to stay at home. (Including spinning babies and enough vitamins to rival any granny's pillbox- yikes! That said, I'm feeling pretty great so far! Back pain went away for now!)

Anyone else have any suggestions for setting baby up to "make like a baby and head out"? (With your doctors permission though!!! Duh!!)
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  • Emztron500Emztron500 member
    No additional advice other than watch your day-to-day posture...going into third tri it's easy to get in the habit of sitting sort of semi-reclined all the time to accomodate your bump but it encourages a posterior position for baby if you do that :(

    Spinning Babies is awesome and I will definitely be doing exercises this time around too. My birth plan for #1 was derailed due to a stubbornly posterior baby and I needed to be transferred to a hospital. This time around I'm determined to get the natural water birth I wanted the first time!
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  • samsonatorsamsonator member
    I learn so much from this board. I had no idea that we could do things to encourage certain positions. 
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  • SweetMamaJuneSweetMamaJune member
    @Emztron500 I wish you the best!! I read that it's a good idea to do these exercises when baby is active but you can do them whenever, or all the time, like you mentioned with maintaining good posture. 

    Mine is most active just as I'm falling asleep, (go figure) so I do the stretching ones then and leave the squats and toning ones for the morning. 
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  • gauge1234gauge1234 member
    Thank you for posting this! So many amazing recommendations.

    I am just starting to get active again, feeling really lazy and sleepy but this is something that I have to do. 

    I'm not even walking every day :(

    I have also definitely been sucking in my bump. My back hurts from walking etc. 
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  • zanaerob1zanaerob1 member
    Um, are you supposed to not suck in the bump? 
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  • MeganF08MeganF08 member
    Thanks for the tip @SweetMamaJune! I am a FTM too and had heard that there were things you could do to position the baby but didn't know what to use as a good resource.
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  • BLM10BLM10 member
    Ina May Gaskin has a Japanese OB friend she claims has a huge success with positioning by encouraging women to work on hands and knees, scrubbing the floor rather than upright mopping for example. I need to find that mention again and look for his info and work.
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  • alysemcialysemci member
    Oh shit I didn't know this was a real thing. I thought people were just weird. Good to know. Starting a new prenatal yoga today so hopefully that helps. Also hopefully I don't keep pushing it off another week 
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  • BLM10BLM10 member
    Emztron500 said:
    BLM10 said:
    Ina May Gaskin has a Japanese OB friend she claims has a huge success with positioning by encouraging women to work on hands and knees, scrubbing the floor rather than upright mopping for example. I need to find that mention again and look for his info and work.
    hands and knees is definitely a good position but I prefer to do some gentle yoga in that position rather than be scrubbing floors, lol
    I'd say the same but my nesting has kicked in early and hard so I'm counting it as cleaning and exercise. ;-)
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  • SweetMamaJuneSweetMamaJune member
    zanaerob1 said:
    Um, are you supposed to not suck in the bump? 
    Haha. Well, duh!! You're going to run out of room eventually!!

    gauge1234 said:
    Thank you for posting this! So many amazing recommendations.
    You're welcome!! It's a bit overwhelming at first but one thing at a time got me started. (Like lying on the floor with my feet on a chair for 5 minutes. Now that's what I call working out! DH doesn't agree so much.)
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  • SweetMamaJuneSweetMamaJune member
    BLM10 said:
    Ina May Gaskin has a Japanese OB friend she claims has a huge success with positioning by encouraging women to work on hands and knees, scrubbing the floor rather than upright mopping for example. I need to find that mention again and look for his info and work.
    Oo! Thanks for sharing! Let us know if you find a link. On spinning babies, it said something about going into child's pose with a cool compress on your back, which is similar in that you're on your hands and knees. (DH wishes that I would do some scrubbing, but fat chance...)
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  • MamaNicoleof3MamaNicoleof3 member
    SweetMamaJune said:
    BLM10 said:
    Ina May Gaskin has a Japanese OB friend she claims has a huge success with positioning by encouraging women to work on hands and knees, scrubbing the floor rather than upright mopping for example. I need to find that mention again and look for his info and work.
    Oo! Thanks for sharing! Let us know if you find a link. On spinning babies, it said something about going into child's pose with a cool compress on your back, which is similar in that you're on your hands and knees. (DH wishes that I would do some scrubbing, but fat chance...)
    He could've made a crass comment about other things you could do in that position. ;)
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  • emmyfreeman27emmyfreeman27 member
    Spinning Babies is great! I commend you as a FTM for using this awesome resource!  My MW recommended me to me in my first pregnancy and I used it... not very consistently, ahem... and had a wonderful, planned, easy homebirth.

    I used it more regularly with my second pregnancy, especially in my last trimester, up until Week 36 with my breech baby-- did those funny inversions on a wooden board inclined up on my couch-- took three days, and then baby turned :) If I could go back and have that labor and delivery again, I'd pay good money for it- I was in labor less than an hour, and it was seriously a pain-free birth (minus the ring of fire, which was obviously painful, but I knew what was coming and just breathed through it) at home again, no complications, easy-peasy, and even an enjoyable time. 

    I'm using it even MORE this time. I can't say that Spinning Babies made labor easy, but it definitely helps. :) Good luck! When naysayers give you horror stories, just let that be that much more motivation for that homebirth! You can truly have a wonderful birth, but I think most women who've had them DID spend time prepping for that wonderful birth. You sound like you are off to a good start!
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  • SweetMamaJuneSweetMamaJune member
    edited February 2016
    @MamaNicoleof3 Yes! He does like some of those spinning babies yoga-style positions...
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  • SweetMamaJuneSweetMamaJune member
    @emmyfreeman27 Thank you so much for sharing!! (& homebirth too!!! I think that's wonderful!) I am sold on continuing a bit at a time with spinning babies but it's so awesome to hear a not-horrifying story for once. 
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