Research and references

Will a mother going into a hands and knees position during late pregnancy help rotate her posterior baby? Many mothers advise each other to spend time on hands and knees each day. Pelvic rocking helps relieve a sore lower back. But will it help the posterior baby rotate before labor starts?
Kariminia

Which side should I lay on?

There are reasons that laying on your left side is helpful in pregnancy. Most women (but not all) will have a lower blood pressure while lying on their left side compared to when lying on their right side. But with fetal positioning will lying on one's left help the baby's back to come over to the left, too? Sorta, maybe? Here are two articles that help answer the question of whether you should try and sleep on your left side to help your baby turn anterior.

Click to de side

Patience when labor stalls

Researcher Aaron Caughey finds giving more time will reduce 400,000 cesareans a year. See the Nov. 18, 2008 Orgyn.com article called Patience after stall in labor advised. Read the research itself. Obstetrics and Gynecology 2008; 112: 1109-15 Perinatal Outcomes in the setting of active phase arrest in labor.
Caughey

References

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Bibliography

Review of Dr. Ellice Lieberman's Research on Posterior and Epidurals

Ellice Lieberman’s 2005 research article on Fetal Position and Epidural Analgesia

Description of Research Article

Ellice Lieberman and her research colleagues looked at which came first, the posterior positioned baby or the epidural. In previous research studies it was somewhat unclear if women having epidural anesthesia (here called analgesia) were more likely to have a posterior baby or whether women with a posterior baby in labor were more likely to ask for an Epidural. While they tracked that question to an answer they observed multiple changes in fetal position at four times during labor.

Research article title: Changes in Fetal Position During Labor and Their Association With Epidural Analgesia.

Lieberman

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