Something my community midwife said the other day alarmed me. It's not going to concern me directly, more likely to affect my sister whose first baby was dislodged by a hospital midwife while she was under epidural in the lithotomy position and looked rather violent tbh.
Anyway, my midwife, who is going to my attendant for my home birth, mentioned that in cases of SD she gets the woman on her back with her legs right back, as presumably they would in hospital.
I'd always (since an immense amount of reading on childbirth and optimum birht positions back in the 90s when I was expecting my first three babies) been led to believe that hands and knees or upright positions were absolutely the best positions for stuck shoulders as they widen the pelvic outlet by 1 or 2 cm. It alarms me that my 31 yr old midwife appears to have no knowledge of this position for sticky shoulders/ SD and I'm wondering how widespread this lack of awareness of the utility of different birthing positions is.
If anybody's interested particularly in SD due to a past SD experience, it's well worth googling and reading up about Ina May Gaskin and her findings on SD and stuck shoulders before your next birth, and trying to find a midwife who is aware of different birthing positions.
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Shoulder dystocia and birthing position
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duchesse · 03/08/2009 08:42
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