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Please, talk amongst yourselves ;o)
Oh, and this comic is related to spinningbabies.com a site that I thought would be a fabulous resource before I was pregnant, but has now messed with my head so much, and confused me so mightily, that I can’t feel a kick without thinking “was that a foot?” and “where’s that head?” and generally spending so much time obsessing over baby position that I forget to enjoy the kicks. This baby is not up and down, but completely circular. There’s no beginning or end and the kicks are all over, just like all my other pregnancies. Pregnancy is awesome and I’m fully enjoying it, but sometimes there is such a thing as too much information. Thinking that I have so much control.
Okay, back to packing, and asking my kids for forgiveness for that temper tantrum I just had ;o)
xox,
Heather
deep breath! lol
make sure you drink enough and rest enough.
*hugs*
heather in maine
Aaaah spinning babies, I remember it well, basically spending labour all but breakdancing to get both my little munchkins in that magic position !!
One straightforward natural birth and one speedy homebirth later I’m pretty sure I made all that fuss over nothing.
Good luck girlie
I completely beat myself up over my daughter being posterior that I didn’t get to enjoy the last month of being pregnant. I tried everything to get her anterior. I even crawled around on all fours until my knees were bleeding. She just wouldn’t budge.
Her labor was 13 hours, she turned during pushing, and she was 10 lbs. So much for prolonged labor due to a macrosomatic OP baby. As it turns out the cord was wrapped around her foot and had some cord entrapment issues, and that was why she couldn’t rotate.
Next time I’m not going to worry so much about it. Everything will turn out fine.
I think the best cure for a truly malpositioned baby is really good chiropractic care (Webster method) I used it my last pregnancy and am using it this pregnancy again. Although not so much for malpositioning but for SEVERE symphisis pubic pain. Best of birthing to you Heather! Only about 5 more weeks or so.
Mama, we are moving this weekend and can I just go on record as saying that trying to pack a house while chasing a tazmanian devil toddler is just plain crappy!?
Soon, we will be packed and moved and then we can both breath a bit better and enjoy our pregnancies a bit more.
Well I’m absolutly convinced that this baby’s head is DEFINATELY down! Why am I so certain? I felt him hiccupping last night and his head was most certainly rubbing against my pelvis with each hiccup. The most important thing is knowing WHAT to do if baby is breech (and no, the answer is not run to the hospital and get a c-section, as so many seem to believe, but I’m sure you already knew that!). And I’m sure baby will make it quite apparent if he or she is transverse in plenty of time to deal with it. You could always go the chiropractic route and get whatever that method is called to get your baby head down, but that’s probably a waste of time. Isn’t there a way you’re supposed to be able to feel the baby’s head with your hands if it’s down?
I liked my midwife’s way of telling. She grabbed that little area right above my pelvic bone, and wiggled it while she held her other hand over another part of the baby about six inches up. If the part she wiggled, wiggled independently of the higher part, she had the head. If it all wiggled at the same time, she looked into the possibility of breech. But then again, my daughter was head down from 30 weeks, and I just *knew* it without being told. And I was too young to consider other possibilities. Ahh, to be young and ignorant again.
I’d just meditate. Invite this child to tell you how she/he wants to be born. Invite those crazy pregnancy dreams. Sounds so new-agey, flighty. But it works.
I, too, freaked myself out on spinningbabies.com. My baby was posterior and no matter what I or my midwife did, she stayed that way until labor. I even scrubbed my kitchen floor on my hands and knees while 9 months pregnant, hoping it would help. I would have preferred she turned before labor, because she added a whole new dimension to contractions every time she shifted position, and my sciatic nerves have never been the same. But ah, well, such is womanhood, eh? At least my kitchen floor was clean!
spinningbabies.com completely freaked me out during my pregnancy, too.