Sorry for the book, I can be long winded... My last labor and birth was something else. My boy was high and acynclitic, his head cocked to one side so it seemed he was trying to get out through my hip socket. He had been in that position for weeks before delivery. I did anything and everything to move him, and he never moved until my midwife was finally able to tell the cord was out of the way and was able to break my water 22 hours into an intense labor. After the waters broke he sort of slid into position. His head was liable to be turned to the right for the first few weeks, and we dangled him upside down a fair bit to help even him out. He is fine now.
Um, that whole experience was pretty crazy, even a little traumatic for me, though it took place in my home and was magical and wonderful too. Thing is, I'm 28 weeks into my 3rd pregnancy, and our baby has for two or three weeks found a nice head down position with his back to my right side, angled toward my left hip--just like his brother was. I'm a little nervous now, though I am glad to know this is just a variation of normal and I CAN do it because I HAVE done it. I am really short waisted, is there just not enough room for my babies to be straight up and down? Am I out of alignment. I did several chiro visits with my last pregnancy. Is it muscle tone? What can I do to help my baby settle into a vertical alignment, and not so diagnal? I want to start working on this sooner than I did with DS2 if there is something I can do to help DS3 and I have a smoother birth together. Thankfully we are planning another homebirth with the same fantastic midwives who so skillfully guided us through the last one. But gosh, I would love to avoid the intensity of hours upon hours of active labor with little more than a water bag and corner of a babies head to help with dialation--not to mention a baby pushing on my hip socket during contractions... Anyway... Thanks for the insight.
Um, that whole experience was pretty crazy, even a little traumatic for me, though it took place in my home and was magical and wonderful too. Thing is, I'm 28 weeks into my 3rd pregnancy, and our baby has for two or three weeks found a nice head down position with his back to my right side, angled toward my left hip--just like his brother was. I'm a little nervous now, though I am glad to know this is just a variation of normal and I CAN do it because I HAVE done it. I am really short waisted, is there just not enough room for my babies to be straight up and down? Am I out of alignment. I did several chiro visits with my last pregnancy. Is it muscle tone? What can I do to help my baby settle into a vertical alignment, and not so diagnal? I want to start working on this sooner than I did with DS2 if there is something I can do to help DS3 and I have a smoother birth together. Thankfully we are planning another homebirth with the same fantastic midwives who so skillfully guided us through the last one. But gosh, I would love to avoid the intensity of hours upon hours of active labor with little more than a water bag and corner of a babies head to help with dialation--not to mention a baby pushing on my hip socket during contractions... Anyway... Thanks for the insight.
I have had some amount of asynclitic-ness (?) with each of my 3. With the 3rd one, I consented to a VE to check positioning, at which point she confirmed he was *trying* to move into a better position (positioning issues are very likely the cause of my very long labors). I did a lot of laboring in lunges and such to try to help him move, and eventually he made a very, very quick entrance with no obvious issues from position.
