6 Tips to Help Bub Align For Birth
One of the biggest gifts you can give yourself in pregnancy, is to encourage your baby into an optimal position for birth. Unideal or misaligned positions, for example, posterior (baby laying with his back towards your back), can result in a longer and more uncomfortable labour for you, and can result in higher incidence of intervention.
There are lots of things you can do during your pregnancy that will encourage baby into an optimal position for birth, which of course means it is going to be easier and shorter when it comes to labour and birth. Really start focusing on this from around the 33 - 34 week mark.
Here are some 6 tips to encourage your baby to be in an optimal position for birthing.
1. Avoid positions that encourage your baby to face your tummy. The biggest culprits are lolling back in armchairs, sitting in car seats where you are laying back, or any position where your knees are higher than your pelvis. Also avoid lying on your back with your feet up. This encourages a posterior (or back to back) position.
2. Spend lots of time kneeling upright, or sitting upright, or on hands and knees. When you sit on a chair, make sure your knees are lower than your pelvis, and your torso should be tilted slightly forwards.
3. When watching TV, kneel on the floor, over a beanbag or cushions, or sit on a dining chair facing backwards (straddle the chair like a cowboy). If kneeling you may need a cushion under your knees.
4. Avoid crossing your legs! This reduces the space at the front of the pelvis, and opens it up at the back. For good positioning, baby needs to have lots of space at the front.
5. Use yoga positions when resting, reading or watching TV - Butterfly pose is ideal..
sitting with your back upright and soles of the feet together, knees out to the sides.
6. Use powerful affirmations that instructs baby to move into the optimal position. Do this from 33 weeks as this is when baby's own neural pathways begin to develop.
These are simple things that you can do that can make all the difference when it comes to your labour. Give yourself a head start.
If you would like more information on how you can prepare for your labour and birth simply send me through an email with your questions, donna@donnammartin.com
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