Okay, so for ages now, every time the MWs check baby's position it's head down, but not remotely engaged, and with the head off to one side - specifically in my left hip area.
I've been seeing a chiropractor since about 15 weeks (there's no such thing as Webster here, so just a regular one) and I've just started seeing an osteopath too in the hopes that that will help, but so far no luck. They've both told me that I have SPD, with my pelvis tilted so that my left leg is longer than my right one. I'm guessing this means that there's more room on that side of my pelvis which might be why baby's head is over there, but nothing seems to change that.
I've been reading spinning babies and trying some of the exercises there - I try to spend at least 30 minutes on hands and knees every day, and doing cat poses etc. I do inversions every other day (I'm a bit worried that I'll actually encourage baby to turn breech if I do these!). I try to sleep on both sides equally, but with my belly button pointing as far towards the bed as I can to encourage baby's back and head to fall forwards.
As far as I can tell from belly mapping, baby is LOP right now, and has been pretty much from the get-go. DD was both posterior and asynclitic when born, leading to an incredibly difficult and painful birth (despite my having spent months doing all the 'right' OFP things) and I *really* don't want another birth like that.
Is there anything else I can do or try to get this baby into a better position to be born?? I'm 38 weeks today, BTW.
I've been seeing a chiropractor since about 15 weeks (there's no such thing as Webster here, so just a regular one) and I've just started seeing an osteopath too in the hopes that that will help, but so far no luck. They've both told me that I have SPD, with my pelvis tilted so that my left leg is longer than my right one. I'm guessing this means that there's more room on that side of my pelvis which might be why baby's head is over there, but nothing seems to change that.
I've been reading spinning babies and trying some of the exercises there - I try to spend at least 30 minutes on hands and knees every day, and doing cat poses etc. I do inversions every other day (I'm a bit worried that I'll actually encourage baby to turn breech if I do these!). I try to sleep on both sides equally, but with my belly button pointing as far towards the bed as I can to encourage baby's back and head to fall forwards.
As far as I can tell from belly mapping, baby is LOP right now, and has been pretty much from the get-go. DD was both posterior and asynclitic when born, leading to an incredibly difficult and painful birth (despite my having spent months doing all the 'right' OFP things) and I *really* don't want another birth like that.
Is there anything else I can do or try to get this baby into a better position to be born?? I'm 38 weeks today, BTW.
