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Caro07 
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 Posted: 17 February 2011 at 8:41pm |
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First labour was very long and DS was posterior but delivered naturally.
Second labour - DS was the right way up and a quick natural delivery.
If I'm honest aswell I didn't too very much to prevent DS2 being posterior as I was of the the opinion (rightly or wrongly) that I would do all that and then he could turn anyway.
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tiptoes
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Posted: 17 February 2011 at 10:33pm |
DS was posterior and had his head flexed - is that the same as brow presentation? I ended up with a c-section. He hadn't been posterior before I went into labour so must have turned during.
Hoping for a VBAC this time 
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AandCsmum
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Posted: 18 February 2011 at 7:14am |
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First bub was posterior, delivered naturally with no drugs, just very long. I was fit though so think that definitely helped. Thinking back her contractions were more manageable as they had an ebb & flow to them, rather than my short fast/hard labour with Cooper.
I spent a lot of time in the bath on hands & knees & on the swiss ball. I had no idea that she was posterior til later.
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KrazeeKaz
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Posted: 18 February 2011 at 11:51am |
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My boy was posterior all the way through, had four days of pre-labour all in the back, waters broke and was only 1cm dilated, so they used synto and full spinal epidural, active labour was 6hours and 3hours of pushing to no avail, so ventouse was used with no tearing.
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mothermercury
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Posted: 18 February 2011 at 12:37pm |
Chloe was partially posterior (can't remember what position exactly), I think, when I was induced at 41 weeks. I didn't have any back pain during labour, and I think the midwife managed to get her to turn or something. I don't even really remember! The birth was 17 hours from start to finish (but I hadn't had any pre-labour or anything before being induced) and I pushed for an hour. I think she was turned anterior by that point, but it took a while because her hand was up by her face.
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Posted: 18 February 2011 at 1:54pm |
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Keziah was posterior throughout whole pregnancy, then about an hour before I started pushing, she turned anterior. But unfortunately ended in crash c-section due to her heart rate.
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Posted: 18 February 2011 at 1:56pm |
Apparently Jacob was partly posterior - he definitely was spending quite a bit of time in a posterior position before he was born, and although the midwife thought he had turned, I was told after he was born that he was partly back the front and that that could be one of the reasons I had very short (intense!) contractions?
In any case, he was a natural birth, it took about 12 / 14 hours (depending on whether you time from first contraction or from when they got to five mins apart), and I did have quite a bit of pain in my back. But it was fine, honestly
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Posted: 18 February 2011 at 3:38pm |
DS was anterior throughout my pregnancy and then in labour turned to posterior.
I ended up having a ventouse delivery in theatre, but that was because he didn't have his head tucked into his chin properly and the lip of my cervix was getting in the way.
I do have to warn you though that it did mean my contractions were all in my back, but hey, contractions are going to hurt no matter where you feel them 
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Posted: 18 February 2011 at 6:54pm |
First baby, long and painful, but delivered naturally eventually.
Second baby, wouldn't engage, never turned into a position that he could get out so ended up with an emergency C-Section.
In the end it didn't matter. Did everything I could to turn both babies, but they would always go back to posterior. I do remember hideous amounts of back pain, but don't remember the pain of contractions at all. I still swear I could have done a drug free birth if my daughter hadn't been posterior 
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Posted: 18 February 2011 at 8:56pm |
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my 1st was posterior, so labour was lengthy and labour was totally in my back But being your 1st you arnt going to know the difference. I thought it was all normal coz in the end I had a natural birth with out any intervention.
my next 3 babies were not posterior, ds2 was perfect position, it was so much less painful that i didnt know it was labour til it was all on. 55mins was it.
I did these things and I do believe they work as ds2 was posterior the day before doing them and I felt him turn while doing them.
*swimming so that you have you bump tilted down so not floating on your back. I found using the noddles really good for relaxing coz you wrap it around and it supports you well so you can just enjoy relaxing.
*leaning/knealing over a swiss ball doing some pelvic rocking.
i have used those to turn my last 3 babies and worked everytime.
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Posted: 19 February 2011 at 10:09pm |
 rorylex wrote:
my 1st was posterior, so labour was lengthy and labour was totally in my back But being your 1st you arnt going to know the difference. I thought it was all normal coz in the end I had a natural birth with out any intervention.
my next 3 babies were not posterior, ds2 was perfect position, it was so much less painful that i didnt know it was labour til it was all on. 55mins was it. |
Oooh I like the sound of that, I'm hoping this is what happens with my next labour I can still remember the back pain, the thought of it makes me shudder
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Posted: 22 March 2011 at 2:18pm |
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my first DD was Prosterier labour was long and painful over 26 hours and 1 hour of pushing 2nd DD was the same but not as long and then DS came along and he wasn't and only 3 hours labour and minutes pushing i didnt do any things to stop or prevent having a posterier baby i just took it as it came but was very painful with first 2 and had drugs with girls but not with my son. sorry dont mean it to sounds bad everybody is different and handles things differently.
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Posted: 22 March 2011 at 9:03pm |
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ha. I had a long (46 hours total, 16 hours established) labour, baby had been anterior for weeks before birth, at last minute he got stuck & obstetrician was convinced he had turned posterior - so ventouse to turn him, then forceps to pull him out - in the posterior position! The silly man turned him the wrong way!! I ended up with a 3rd degree tear (with episiotomy).
Hoping for a faster, more normal, less damaging delivery this time round :-)
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Posted: 23 March 2011 at 2:41pm |
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My girl was posterior while in labour. I was induced and ended up having a c-sect cause the hospital was useless and lazy (IMO).
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Posted: 23 March 2011 at 4:36pm |
My boy turned posterior towards the end of my labour, so the last few hours all the contractions were in my back. He was LOA at the start of labour! Little monkey.
Due to other reasons, I had an emerg CS(but my labour was 48 hours and not all to do with him being posterior)
Things to keep baby in a good position and to help if theya re already posterior are -
**Sit backwards on a chair, dont slouch! Swim! hands and knees and rocking is good. And check out spinningbabies.com!
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Posted: 23 March 2011 at 8:44pm |
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My DS was posterior right up until crowning when he turned to anterior.
Labour was just under 12 hours but had syntocinon (accompanied with epidural) as I wasn't dilating.
2nd stage of labour was just over an hour & he was delivered with no assistance & only a very small tear.
From what I have heard I was pretty lucky & had it relatively easy compared to some.
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Posted: 23 March 2011 at 9:39pm |
tiptoes wrote:
DS was posterior and had his head flexed - is that the same as brow presentation? .
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^^ same Ds was posterior and had his head flexed, after an hour or so of lunges on the stairs ( made him drop his chin) he was pushed out in 15 mins. I had a home waterbirth. Contractions were all in my back though and were awful
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Posted: 24 March 2011 at 1:28pm |
Great tip, thanks pudgy!! I'll keep the lunges in mind this time around
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