once baby’s head is at the start
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Topic: once baby’s head is at the start
Posted By: NovemberMum
Subject: once baby’s head is at the start
Date Posted: 17 October 2007 at 6:55pm
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of being engaged ie 1/5 are they able to turn or are they "stuck" in that position until after the birth? ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: peachy
Date Posted: 17 October 2007 at 6:57pm
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Well our bubs still managed to turn from posterior to anterior (luckily for me) while at D2 but now its too squashed to move much at all, so only moves from side to side slightly! I am pretty sure they can still fully turn as long as it has room, please correct me if I am wrong someone! ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 17 October 2007 at 7:06pm
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Yep they definitely turn, in fact if baby is engaged and posterior, they are about 98% sure to turn to anterior before or during labour. Some babies flip out of being engaged altogether but that's less likely. -------------  |
Posted By: NovemberMum
Date Posted: 17 October 2007 at 7:22pm
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I have my MW appointment tomorrow so will be interesting to see if baby has started to engage. ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Bel
Date Posted: 17 October 2007 at 7:24pm
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yeah I am sitting on a swiss ball right now, to try and move baby from posterior position. M/w said that you can open up pelvis and then baby can still turn around... ------------- Mum to two beautiful kids
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Posted By: mamanee
Date Posted: 17 October 2007 at 7:35pm
Sam was head down, ready to go, and he turned into a footling/kneeling breech at 38 weeks! 
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Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 17 October 2007 at 8:35pm
Yup they can turn, Daniel was fully engaged and was anterior and flipped to posterior in labour .. and MW thinks this happened when I was about 7cm dilated... how nice of him 
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Posted By: Rachael21
Date Posted: 17 October 2007 at 8:46pm
Caprece was anterior and fully engaged and then turned posterior and popped back up  luckily she turned anterior the next day and was born the day after that 
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Posted By: Mama2two
Date Posted: 18 October 2007 at 9:14am
Sam was posterior for most of the pregnancy and still that way when labour started. The good wee girl turned anterior during her exit though which apparently is quite common
BTW, I tried absolutley everything to turn her, from scrubbing the shower floor, leaning forward on chairs, down on all fours, swimming - you name it I did it and she never turned
Don't worry though, they still have to come out no matter which way they are facing, and by then you just don't care anymore!!!  ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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