By: sara

sara — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 21:38:00 +0000

I’m currently preg with baby no. 2 and trying not to become too obsessive about whether this one will be compound like my first. I didn’t realize how lucky I was to have avoided more issues with the compound presentation- besides my labor being very long and very painful, and having some tearing- the research i’ve done seems to suggest that c-section is often used if the baby is known to be compound. One more reason I’m glad we used a midwife! I see that your 3rd baby was not compound- do you think you did anything different in that pregnancy as far as positioning? I would love to hear if you think there’s anything that can help. I’m so glad I found your blog- when I was looking for images of compound birth and read your blog post- my first thought was– wait—is this the couple from Orgasmic Birth- then when I saw the about us page I knew it was. I watched your birth before and after my son was born and that was the only mention I’ve found I’d ever heard of a compound presentation during that time period. Anyway- thanks for the post!

By: Nava

Nava — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:08:31 +0000

I’m actually hoping this one presents the same as my first; textbook perfect presentation and everything! fingers crossed over here.
I do think that it’s pretty common that babies to the same mom seem to present the same way; I was right-transverse breach, so the midwife scooted me around during labour and I wound up “sunny-side up” as my mom put it (ouch!) My sisters weren’t breach presentation, so they didn’t have any manipulation to be born, but they were also face up. sooo…maybe another nuchal hand? Then again, maybe not. I’m also wondering if there have been any studies on this.

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