Baby position before labour

Kelly... I started this thread cos I was also very worried about positions. I did go to spinningbabies and did some of their exercises, my baby was head down before 30 weeks and stayed that way. So ya go to the website and mainly practise good posture and hopefully baby will be just fine... I was able to deliver her naturally with no pain meds, hope the same for you...

Kelly, see this link to learn more about baby positioning:

www.spinningbabies.com

Its so much fun to map your tummy!

Hi there,

my daughter was also in a posterior position and I had a drug-free natural birth. Painful in the back, but absolutely doable!

Don't worry about it too much, you'll be just fine! You are a WOMAN

Hi there I'm kelly n I'm new 2 the moomie forum.

I also want 2 know abt the position of baby before labour because its my first time
Having a baby and to tell u the truth I'm kinda scared. So it would be reali nyc to hear some of ur views to those moms wu av already had the experience of givin birth.


Thank U
Kelly

I am worried hey....gosh there are just so many things one can easily worry about and end up forgetting to just enjoy these last few weeks

At a checkup on Thursday she was still ROA, so I shall not worry that she's left or right. Next week Saturday I'll have an idea of her weight, even though those scans are normally totally off, but it will be nice to have an idea for clothing preparation. With my son I carried small, and am also a small person vele, so a few people bought me new born clothes... My son was 3.5 and was tall, he never fitted into most of those clothes ... So this time I bought only 0 - 3 months, but can't help "worrying" that she might be tinie tiny...

SMA if you are worried about anterior / posterior, don't I gave birth to two posterior babies (3,2 kg and 3,6 kg) natural births, no complications. YOU CAN DO IT!!

Hi,
ROA & LOA refers to left or right occiput anteria.
Either one of these positions is absolutely fine as it means the baby is lying with its occiput(back of the head) on your left or right, with the back closer to your front(anterior) midline (front of pubic bone)
baby's do a series of movement during labour called the mechanism of labour in which if they are in either one of these positions they only need to rotate to the anterior 1/8 of a circle.
If however you baby is ROP or LOP (left or right occiputo posterior) it means the back of the baby's head and spine is lying against your spine and means that it needs to do a long rotation - in otherwords instead of a 1/8th turn it's got to turn 3/8ths if a circle.

This could mean that you have a longer labour - the baby has a longer rotation and it could mean that you experience your labour mostly in your back with the spine pushing on your spine.
However, it is not a good enough reason for an elective cs -I hear dr's telling this to mothers all the time! And does not mean that your baby cannot engage.
SOme babies even make it throught the birthing canal in a persistent posterior position -
If your baby is posterior late in the pregnancy, it means that you need to spend as much time as you can on your hands & knees to get your baby to rotate to the front. So floor scrubbing, playing with a toddler on the floor all helps shift the baby into an OA position. No more couch potato slouching!!