37 weeks...baby won't stay put...problem??

[Phoebe]

During my entire pregnancy (at least the latter part where I could tell what baby was up to) my baby has been moving from LOA to ROA to posterior many different times througout the day. It has been head down for a long long time so I'm not worried about that. But it seems to prefer ROA and over the last week I feel many kicks in the front and the heartbeat is hard to hear with my fetoscope. And then hours later it will settle into an anterior position. My midwife said she doesn't worry about ROA with a second time mom. She has not found it to really creat problems in labor with secong timers. Still, I ended up with a csection due to long labor
(3days) and a LOT baby. I really want this baby to be in a good spot. I have been seeing a chiropractor, trying to spend as much time on my hands and knees, trying to sleep on left side, etc. But, none of this seems to have any thing to do with how baby is lying at any given point! There must be plenty of room in there but ds was 10 pounds and I'm 5'1" 120lbs soaking wet. Can't be too much room in there even with a "regular" sized baby.

Anyway, it's just freaking me out. Ds seemed to stay in the same LOA spot forever. Is this a big deal? Something to worry about? Any insight is helpful...

Amy

[courtenay_e]

have you gone to the spinning babies website? Do you have a birth ball? Sit on IT at the table, desk, and when watching tv. Don't give the baby any extra room to move to ROA, which you do when you use poor posture while sitting. When you're sitting on the birth ball, it keeps baby put. Hope that helps...

But really, my kids and my moms' kids all moved around even when in labor. In fact, my sister moved from full transverse to LOA when my mom was in active labor and dilated to a 6.5. She was her third. Not common, but still, if there's room to move and baby goes back to LOA, it's likely that is how it'll settle when you go into labor...

Try the ball, though.

[Rockies5]

I disagree and don't think it's a problem.

Baby is going to choose the path of least resistance on his way out, your uterus is gong to work beautifully to spin him to the correct position for YOU.

You are already doing all the correct body positions, and there is really no way you can make the baby stay in your chosen/prefeered position anyways.

So you have a nice roomy pelvis, this isn't a bad thing!

ALL of my babies wriggled, spinned and twisted in the last weeks. ALL were mostly ROP (somtimes the opposite, one appt from the next they'd roll a few times a day) dutting labor, turning to anterior durring the birth.

HTH trust the process. it's ok not to be textbook.

[kerikadi]

If you are really worried try the exercises at spinning baby and get to a chiropractor certified in the Webster Technique. Being adjusted can help bring the baby to the optimum birthing position but in the end it's the baby's decision and he/she may like that particular path for a reason.

Keri

[Phoebe]

Most of the reading at spinning babies is so discouraging! It just seems like it's too late and there isn't much I can do now! I'm on my feet pretty much all day long and at the end of it all I really don't want to "relax" by sitting my birth ball, on my hands and knees (comfy!!) or sitting in the tailors pose on the floor! I am a very pregnant woman with a very tired back for pete's sake! I am not sedintary, I am up moving almost all day long, bending squating, twisting, turning, walking swaying, mowing the lawn, cooking dinner, on the floor playing, etc...the list goes on. YKWIM? When I do relax at the end of the day I don't recline in my recliner. I have a pillow behind me in fact to keep my back as straight upright as possible. So I am trying to do all I can bring myself to do at this point. One part of me believes like Rockies5 said. I don't seem to be able to make this baby stay in a good position or get out of a bad one. I assume it is a good thing that the baby is definately not stuck in any of these positions. I just don't remember this with ds. Maybe this one isn't a 10lber like he was!
My chiro is certified in Webster technique. I will talk to her about it on Friday.

Thanks for the input, ladies.

(I was hoping that if I posted this the baby would decied to stay LOA!! Usually when I post with some sort of problem it works itself out right away!! But was LOA all morning now it's ROA. I'm going to just stop worring about it because that can't help matters!)

[tanyalynn]

My gut (read: not scientific opinion) says that if the baby has this much room to move around (and obviously has a lot of positions to choose from), then in labor, the baby will move to the best place--for your body, for this pregnancy, and for the size of this baby. It's a different pregnancy than last time, and your body has been through a whole pregnancy/delivery already, so the environment is different from last time. That seems like reason enough to almost expect this baby to do different stuff than the last. Or maybe this baby is just a highly active little person.