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In my experience, the vast majority of OP labours
do rotate to OA eventually, especially in Multips. I used to see a great
many more face to pubes births than I have in recent years - possibly due to
denser epidurals in the past, in fact the only ones I can think of in the past 5
years or so have been forceps deliveries, even then they usually rotate them
with Keillands forceps before bringing them out. My last 3 births have all
been OP labours rotating to OA on the pelvic floor - the last one was a 10lb
baby who you could actually see spinning as he advanced.
I remember with amusement this being discussed at
the homebirth conference at Yanchep some years ago and Ina May Gaskin was asked
what they did on the farm with OP's
She replied " Oh well, y'know, no-one ever told us
this was supposed to be a problem"!
Also watching an American TV medical doco some
years back where the OB was taking the woman to theatre and he paused to explain
to the TV crew why she could not deliver this baby vaginally as it was OP.
While he was explaining this she gave an almighty yell and shot the baby out on
the theatre trolley.
Love it!
Sue
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do
nothing"
Edmund Burke
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