Posterior baby and Birth

There is heaps you can do to turn the baby now.

Swimming
Sitting on a swissball as much as you can
Always keep yours knees below your hips while sitting.

Try not to stress baby has plenty of time to turn & can quite often turn during labour too.

TPD- did you know before hand that baby was posterior?

my second dd was posterior and not engaged she arrived 11 days late and after only 1 1/2 hours labour (at home so no pain relief) she turned and engaged minutes before making her exit

I think a website - spin babies or something has some ideas. I remember looking it up too.

My DD was posterior - I'd heard horror stories and was really really worried. My DD didn't turn anterior but it was fine. Active labour was about 10 hours, first baby - so, not horrendously long like some of the stories I'd heard. It hurts...but it is going to hurt anyway!! POSITIVE THOUGHTS!!! :-)

Jacob was partially posterior when he was born. We thought he'd turned, but it turned out he hadn't really. I had no pain relief at all - that was partly because my contractions were very short (they say that posterior babies can cause that) so we didn't got to the birthing centre till the last minute (MW didn't think I was very far along, he was born 15 mins after we got there )

I don't know if Jacob's birth was more painful than it would have been otherwise as I have nothing to compare it to. But while it hurt (I think that's the plan ), it was managable.

I'd try the leaning forward/swimming etc to turn bubs BUT my boy was posterior when I presented to the hospital in labour (he'd been perfect position a few days earlier). It was fine. Very much "back" labour with pain in the back but I survived with no drugs. Arrived at hospital at 3cm and 2.5 hours later he was born with two pushes! Hopefully these nice stories help you not to stress.

Yes I did know as I had carried him that was most of the pregnancy. Best of luck with turning him.

DS1 was posterior right up until i was wanting to push, midwife had me lie on my left side for 30mins while sucking on the gas to stop me from pushing, it worked and he was born another 30mins later, no tearing or any intervention.

with ds2 he was anterior and i couldnt believe the difference it made i had no idea i was in labour til contractions were on top of each other.

knowing that with ds3 and 4 I was very into making sure they were anterior. so swimming twice a week from 34wks and you need to keep your pelvic tilted forwards so breaststroke position I found using the pool noodles very relaxing.
and the swiss ball is great again leaving forward of it.
these are all best done while having BH's as the contractions help to give baby a bit of a "push" in the right direction.

with ds2 I felt him turn and engage all in the one swiss ball exercise.

sorry dont know if any of this will help. but its what i have experienced so far.

My first was a posterior that turned during labour, It was long but very manageable, didn't set up until the last few hours & I managed it with out any intervention what so ever. I was very freaked out about the pain of childbirth the whole way through my pregnancy but when it happens surprisingly you just cope with it. I ended up having no pain relief at all which is surprising considering I was scared of the pain.

The mention of the back pain has reminded me that yes, I felt my contractions a lot there. But with nothing to compare it to, I still don't know if that's 'worse' IYGWIM?