wondering about squatting

[GradysMom]

I'm "due" tomorrow...
so I have had prodromal labor for 3 weeks by now I guess. the contrax are always a bit different here and there but when they come on they are like 3-5 min apart and over a minute long.

Last night for giggles I had dh help me stand on my head.... maybe the baby needs to re-engage right? Would love for the apparent OP to become OA...

Anyway I have wondered about squatting into some of this too.... and I have done some of that when it felt right...

What is the consensus on this.... is it ok as long as we are't pushing into them yet... like relaxing out the floor muscle and thinking openning thoughts... does that make it effective and ok?

I have been apprehensive about toying with it too much because I think premature squat/pushing with ds was one of the two hundred factor that led to csec. I don't want to wrongly assume that squating isn't the same as bearing down.


FWIW Philosophically I came to the realization the other day that the more I thought in terms of trying to induce labor the more I was sending myself and the baby the message that I didn't trust my body or the process.

[Flower of Bliss]

My midwife suggested that I do lots of on all fours. She's suggested that a few times, and I've been doing it for awhile. At my last appointment, she told me to follow that up by squatting for about 10 minutes. I had a 4th degree tear with DD#1 (no episiotomy) and she's made a point of discussing positions for pushing that will put very minimal pressure on my perineum, thus not wanting me to push in a squatting position. Still, she's encouraging me to squat now.

[Jilian]

Squatting is good because it opens the diameter of your pelvis and helps baby to really engage. Sitting on a birth ball is easier than squatting because you can do it longer but its pretty much the same concept. I'm going to be sitting on my birth ball pretty much until this baby comes out!

[brooklynbabymama]

I wish I had spent more time practicing squatting last time since I ended up in a squat for probably the last four hours or so. I could hardly walk for a few days, my thighs were so sore!