[Viola]

I believe my baby is ROA, but the Spinning Babies website talks about the importance of the baby being LOA. The back of my baby is more on my right side than on my left side. There is information about exercise to turn an LOP or ROP to ROA, but not anything about ROA to LOA. At least not that I can figure out. The website claims that LOA is the best for chin tucking and moving through the pelvic outlet, but I'm not sure of the symmetry and what organs get in the way of a baby who is more to the right to keep him from tucking his chin as well, or to keep his head from fitting in the cervix as well. Can anyone explain more about this?

 

[Spark]

Uh, I don't know a lot about this, but I did hear that lying on your left side at night is supposed to help the babe get to LOA. I don't know the science behind *why* LOA is better. That baby will come out anyway. I pushed my son out posterior and he never turned the whole labor. He came out just fine. Oh, and his hand was beside his head. I wouldn't put too much time or energy into worrying about ROA vs LOA.

 

[dnr3301]

At least your baby is Anterior!! I wouldn't worry about the Right Vs. Left so much, once the baby is anterior, my understanding is that the contractions will shift it from right to left fairly easily. It just a lot more work for the baby to turn all the way from posterior to anterior during labor, but that does happen too. It will happen during labor, with fairly little conscious work on your part; that's probably why there isn't a whole lot about exercises to shift from ROA to LOA.

 

[Viola]

OK, thanks! That is what I was hoping. The baby seems to shift sometimes, depending on how I'm lying. I've been having back cramping though, so I wonder if maybe she's turned, but I still think she is anterior.