While we cleaned Den searched through the music channels (on our cable TV), skipping over the really hard rock stuff that he likes (and I don’t), settling on Classic Rock. After singing along to about five songs I asked him what station it was. I love it! Beatles, Eagles, all the good stuff from that era. Yes I may have been born in ’82, but that’s not necessarily what I grew up with. It is great to have music in the living room now. I have to admit, I am entirely sick of the current pop. Some of it can be catchy, but it’s really missing… everything. Some preggos crave certain foods… I apparently am craving certain music!<\/p>\n
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I got really excited when I read the article that Jaci left me in my comments (thanks Jaci!) about Optimal Fetal Positioning<\/a>. It reiterates a lot of what I read on Spinning Babies<\/a> (another great site, btw), but also stated some things outright that I had been wondering.<\/p>\n The first is that it did in fact confirm that babies tend to like facing their placenta, so me having an anterior placenta is certainly contributing to her posterior position. Doesn’t make it impossible to change, but I’ve noticed her preference from the start and thought, hmmmmm. It does make sense, too: if there’s this blob in the way the front of my uterus doesn’t make quite the same “nest” for her back the way a posterior placenta would.<\/p>\n Then it got me wondering about these contractions I’m having. Now granted I know that more frequent braxton-hicks contractions are common in subsequent pregnancies. But the website says this: “Braxton-Hicks contractions before labour starts may be especially painful, with lots of pressure on the bladder, as the baby tries to rotate while it is entering the pelvis.” I most definitely have a lot of pressure on the bladder every time I get a contraction, and I do not<\/i> remember that from any contractions – braxton-hicks or full labor – with Devin. That was a nice little light bulb explanation for that fun side-effect. I’m left wondering, hmmm… maybe I’m having all these contractions because my body is trying to turn her? Interesting thought.<\/p>\n The other questions I’ve been asking myself are: first, how much should I stress about this; and, second, how hard should I work at it? It’s easy to get hung up on something. It’s hard weighing how important this is going to be during labor versus how much worry to expend on it. I don’t have any intention of spending the last 3-4 weeks of my pregnancy being anxious. Well there’s a few different things I’ve taken from the articles I’ve read: So basically I’m going to do what I can in the next 3\/4 weeks to encourage<\/i> her to turn – it doesn’t hurt to loosen my ligaments and give her the best chance. But I’m not going to worry too much about it and I’m not going to get upset when she doesn’t suddenly turn tomorrow (or next week, or whatever). I’ll just know that I did the best I could and the rest is up to the baby in this case!<\/p>\n I’m also understanding how important it is – and will be – to listen to my body during labor (and before). Pain is a body’s way of telling you to do something. There’s a reason that I was feeling good on my hands and knees before I even thought about how she was positioned, something that I never felt a need to do with Devin. If my body is trying to turn the baby during labor I need to listen to it and help it out. The positions that relieve my pain are probably going to be the ones that are most helpful. Which means I can probably expect to spend a lot of labor on my hands and knees. I’m also trying to read up on the Spinning Babies positions for labor to try when the time comes, if it is needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" While we cleaned Den searched through the music channels (on our cable TV), skipping over the really hard rock stuff that he likes (and I don’t), settling on Classic Rock. After singing along to about five songs I asked him what station it was. I love it! 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\n– Baby can and likely will rotate during labor – it just might take some hard work (and pain) for my body to accomplish that.
\n– Babies are even more likely to rotate in a second (or more) pregnancy after having birthed an anterior baby (that’s me, yay!).
\n– In second+ pregnancies the baby doesn’t typically drop until later on, possibly even until labor starts, and they have more room to move.
\n– Sometimes even if you do everything you can a baby won’t turn. Sometimes you don’t do much and they do.
\n– A posterior baby who is refusing to turn even in labor can still be born vaginally (it just might be harder on me!).<\/p>\n