Penny teaching a group of participants the Leopold's technique and fetal positioning, particularly how to prevent and manage
the occiput posterior position which often leads to challenging back labor and birth.
Parity, delayed pushing, use of epidural analgesia, maternal body mass index, birth weight,
occiput posterior position, and fetal station at complete dilation all have been shown to affect the length of the second stage of labor (26).
I personally think (my non-medical opinion) that the cesarean was the result of all of the drugs that were administered to me during labor (with my consent) and the artificial rupturing of my membrane when the baby was still high up in the uterus in
the occiput posterior position.
as I'd required an IV just in case things went pear - shaped (low B12 and low iron and was told that I'd have needed a transfusion if I'd lost more than 500mL), needed a little boost of pitocin for that one, and my babies tend to be Persistent
Occiput Posterior Position deliveries.
In a 2005 study of 700 women whose babies were in
the Occiput Posterior position, it was found that these moms - to - be were no more likely to suffer back labor than those whose little bundles were in other positions.
Persistent fetal
occiput posterior position: Obstetric outcomes.
Occiput posterior position.
Not exact matches
Positions such as
occiput posterior (when baby is facing the mother's abdomen) can cause pressure from the baby's head to be applied to the mother's sacrum (the tailbone).
When a baby is head - down but facing your abdomen, she's said to be in the
occiput posterior (OP)
position — or
posterior position, for short.
The OP
position (
occiput posterior fetal
position) is when the back of baby's head is against the mother's back.
Right
Occiput Transverse (ROT) is a common starting
position in which the baby has a bit more likelihood of rotating to the
posterior during labor than to the anterior.
When the back of the head is facing the back of the mother (
posterior) the baby's position is called Occiput P
posterior) the baby's
position is called
Occiput PosteriorPosterior.
More specifically, the «
occiput posterior»
position causes the hardest part of baby's skull to put pressure squarely on mama's tailbone.