Doea anyone know what 'ROL' stands for in my notes?

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I am due tomorrow and had a trace done today because I had reduced movement. The student m/w wrote 'ROL' in my notes and I am hoping that this has nothing to do with baby being back-to-back. I have just spent the last month avoiding my sofa, bouncing and leaning on my birth ball successfully managing to turn baby from OP to ROA and will be v.pissed off if in the last week she has wriggled back! Am planning homebirth and all I have is two cans of entonox and that's my lot.

could it be this?

ROL: right occipital longitudinal lie (baby is lying sideways with the head on your right)

good luck by the way!

Is that Right Occipito Lateral - head down, to the right side? If it were back to back it would be Posterior (so ROP or LOP).

I'd try not to worry about the pain relief - I had a homebirth with DD. My MW commented she always had entonox in the car but rarely needed to get it out, as just being in their home environment made women much more relaxed. Fingers crossed it works for you

that sounds more like it Tangle!

Thing is, babies can start off in the 'best' position and wiggle round to OP when labour starts anyway! I think the best thing you can do is to not worry about it and have confidence that you will be able to give birth at home as you wanted, whatever position she's in. Although OP position can make things more difficult, it's not a given and I think sometimes we get a bit too hung up on it - after all the vast majority of women whose babies are in this position at some stage during labour turn round and everything's fine.

Please just try and relax and look forward to your birth and meeting your baby.

Right occipito lateral. i.e. the baby's occiput (back of head) is facing your right flank if you see what I mean. DaisyMoo is right, there is no way of ensuring your baby is in the right position for birth, they just do as they please, and the majority switch around in labour anyway. TBH it is much to do with the expertise of the mw (or student) and how much padding there is around baby as to how accurate this is anyway. Could be posterior and no amount of 'optimum fetal positioning' can change it sometimes. Studies on 'optimal fetal positioning' show it can alter a baby's position in the short term but not long term, i.e. once you stop being in all fours or whatever they go back. The second midwife will be able to bring more entonox if you need it. You may find you don't need it anyway as Tangle says, I only had a couple of puffs towards the end for my homebirth.
Don't worry about it, keep up and mobile and best of luck!

My DD was OP all the way through pregnancy, birth adn delivery, and was born OP

apart from a long latent stage ( 15 hours ) the establisjed labour was fine and quick and intervention free , and she was a VBAC!

Thanks guys for all your advice and support! Sorry about the delay in replying to you all ? have spent all of my due date sat on the loo with a bucket on my lap firing at both ends (sorry if TMI!) with a d&v virus ? oh the joy! I was desperate not to go too overdue this time but now I am hoping baby gives me a couple of days to restore myself before she decides to make her appearance. I think all your comments about OFP are very true as she seems to wriggle out of LOA just as quickly as I have managed to get her into it IYSWIM.