tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4738062031052371885.post1934715586390197588..comments2024-03-17T10:07:53.205-07:00Comments on The Well-Rounded Mama: Manual Rotation for Posterior or Tranverse BabiesWell-Rounded Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04129621631406155340noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4738062031052371885.post-61660008284831713782011-08-15T23:09:54.085-07:002011-08-15T23:09:54.085-07:00I personally have had one baby manually rotated, a...I personally have had one baby manually rotated, and it worked out fine. Another later was rotated by nurses having me do position changes and was born facing the normal way. My last baby did not rotate and the midwife tried to manually rotate her, but she kept going back. She was born OP with an asynclitic (spelling?) head. I have had problems with bowel movements ever since, but not to the extent I'd rather have a c-section. I wonder, when a baby will turn or can be turned, if it also helps with pelvic floor issues? (The midwife thinks the baby kept turning back because she actually had a tight cord and was having decels at the very end, I pushed her out so fast that even being baby #7 I tore...hadn't had a tear since baby #2. Again though rather this than a c-section).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4738062031052371885.post-61152464774173864822011-07-07T20:50:57.167-07:002011-07-07T20:50:57.167-07:00I hope this makes it's way into more widesprea...I hope this makes it's way into more widespread use. I ended up being induced, and then having a c-section because my daughter was posterior. If it wasn't for your post on anterior vs posterior belly shapes I wouldn't have even known she was posterior. I had thought that the odd shape of my belly was due to me being fat when I noticed that my belly looked just like the posterior picture. I asked at my next appointment about it (I was having an u/s anyway), and was told that yes she was posterior, but that I didn't need to worry about it since almost all babies turn the right way. This was at about 32 weeks. Basically I was left on my own to deal with the malposition. <br /><br />It turned out that her head was cocked sideways in addition to being posterior, and there were issues with her not being engaged when my water broke and meconium in the fluid, so maybe I'd of ended up with a c-section regardless. But I can't help but think that if someone, other than me with my internet tips, had attempted to get her to turn maybe I could have had the peaceful Hypnobabies birth I had planned, instead of having to worry about VBACS and possibly having reproductive choices taken away from me. The latter is more of a since my DH is in the military, there's no telling where we'll be living when we have another child. And if there's no hospital and/or ob/midwife practice that will attend VBACs, then I'll put off getting pregnant since I don't feel like that just because I let someone cut me open before that I have to have it happen again.Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03969829145458619815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4738062031052371885.post-66927508660657357162011-07-07T09:38:57.813-07:002011-07-07T09:38:57.813-07:00I am a chiropractor who routinely sees a baby turn...I am a chiropractor who routinely sees a baby turn from a malposition such as OP or even Breech with one or two Webster's adjustments. I've had midwives call me to labors and with a simple adjustment the baby turns IN LABOR within ten minutes. The difference for the mother is MEASURABLE and the labor progresses normally. <br /><br />Cynthia Gabaldon, DC Orlando, FLCynthia Gabaldon, DC (Orlando, FL)http://1chiropractor.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4738062031052371885.post-90250480375603444962011-07-06T00:03:56.703-07:002011-07-06T00:03:56.703-07:00My first child was born face up. Labor was long (...My first child was born face up. Labor was long (49 hours) and painful with mostly back labor pains. It's no picnic laboring thru the intense stages of labor with your baby's skull pressing on your spine with each contraction, and nothing but analgesics for pain. <br />That said, I would have had a much more difficult recovery if I had been talked into a csection. Of course, this was the mid 80s, and doctors actually tried to avoid surgery as much as possible. It's good to read that doctors are choosing to wait more now.Regina530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4738062031052371885.post-55965613405686068792011-07-05T23:02:13.251-07:002011-07-05T23:02:13.251-07:00From a layperson's perspective, this issue dra...From a layperson's perspective, this issue dramatically illustrates the gulf between the medical and midwifery models of care. My midwife, who attended all three of my labors, matter-of-factly mentioned manual rotation as a tool in case my babies were posterior or transverse. She warned me that it was one of the most uncomfortable procedures she used, but it fit into her model. Her model assumed that the mother is formed in such a way that the fetus can come out, the fetus is formed in such a way that the mother can labor the fetus down, both members of the laboring pair have reliable reflexes that help them go about it, and the midwife is a spotter. Therefore, the <i>first</i> response to difficulty--whether ahead of time or on the scene--is <i>to help the labor back on its normal course, then get out of the way.</i><br /><br />I know I'm explaining the obvious. This is literally the first time I have ever stated it this way to myself. It was such a basic assumption that my midwife did not state it in so many words; she simply spoke as if I already knew. <i>Of course</i> we are capable. <i>Of course</i> fetuses are capable. <i>Of course</i> complications that require canceling the normal course of labor are extremely rare. Gravity works, labor works: well, duh.<br /><br />Then I ran into the medical model, in which the first response to a labor going off script is CUT! Pregnant woman as ticking bomb, delivery room team as highly trained disposal squad. Go in there and get the baby out. Rescue! Save! Deliver! If this labor goes under 50 miles per hour, the mom will EXPLODE! Or perhaps a better metaphor would be labor as complex yet kludgy computer program that nobody but a highly trained specialist could possibly understand, so just get out of the way and let us work, honey. Of course, the assumption behind this meptahor is that the technicians get to revise the program as they see fit and nobody expects the machine to complain. No. I am not an IBM clone.<br /><br />Jenny IslanderAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com