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FAO Pologirl
so I found the posts and caught up with them, I hope you didn't feel that
people weren't responding when there were so few answers about positioning etc. I suspect I'm not the only one who just didn't see them as they were tagged onto an old thread. You said: Baby has been vertex and ROA for months now. Baby is now riding very low in my pelvis, but not quite engaged. Baby is facing my left hip, not my back. I am getting anxious. In my pregnancy with Monkey Boy, by week 37 his head faced my back and he was fully engaged. And I was having a lot of pre-labor contractions. I have had no contractions worth mentioning yet in this pregnancy. All this would be no big deal except that today my OB informed me he will be away for 10 days starting from my w39d5 and suggested next week we talk about an induction. Grrr. I worry that if this baby does not face my back Real Soon Now, an induction will just set me up for a C-section. I'm not sure what you are meaning about facing your back, the best position is LOA, which is the baby's back is just to the left hand side of you belly button, the opposite of ROA. Unless you've got the wrong name for the position the baby is in now, I can't quite tell what you mean by facing the hip, because the hip is a pretty large area, but I'm wondering if you mean ROT (right occuiput transverse), which is where the back is right at your side, the name is often confusing, because transverse is also used to describe a baby lieing horizontally. If you really do mean ROA, that is not such a bad position, it's the 2nd best to be born in, but a lot of ROA babies turn via posterior to be born LOA, which can make for a long, slow labour. ROT is a big more worrying, if they go in to the pelvis that way they get stuck, known as transverse arrest, do you remember Andrea, who had 12 babies? The 11th, that ended in c-section was for this reason. http://www.plus-size-pregnancy.org/malpositions.htm is a pretty good page, including pre labour positioning and some techniques for getting them in the right position during labour. Cheers Anne |
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