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Is posterior or anterior better for delivery?

Is posterior or anterior better for delivery?

Once the baby is head down, the best position for a labour is the anterior position. Anterior position means the baby’s head enters the pelvis facing your back. This is the ideal and most common position for birth (see image).

Can you give birth posterior?

How common is it for a baby to be in posterior position? It depends on how close you are to delivery. While as many as 34 percent of babies are posterior when labor starts, only 5 to 8 percent of them are posterior at birth. It’s common for a baby’s position to change during labor, often more than once.

What does posterior mean in labor?

Official Definition: A posterior baby (“OP” or occiput posterior) before birth is head down with their face facing your front. This position colloquially referred to as “sunny side up.” A baby in this position for birth means that their head will be against your backside/tailbone.

Is posterior labour more painful?

Posterior position This means the baby’s head enters the pelvis facing your front instead of your back. This can mean a longer labour with more backache. Most babies will turn around during labour, but some don’t.

What are complications of a posterior birth?

More serious posterior birth complications include: Prolapsed or compressed umbilical cord. Prolonged labor. Need for a vacuum of forceps extraction.

What causes posterior birth?

Often, chiropractic adjustments of the back and pelvis will be just what the baby needs to rotate. A mother’s sacral area might be jammed or just tight, and that, along with a misaligned tailbone, could force the baby to become posterior.

Why are posterior births so painful?

Posterior positioning means that baby’s head is pressing against mom’s sacrum. The hard head is pressing against the hard sacrum. It would not hurt as much if the soft face was pressed against the hard sacrum, at least for mom (baby may not like it that much though). This hard pressure creates back pain.

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