anterior position
The baby's spine faces the front of the pelvis during pregnancy and/or labour.
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Anterior position: When the baby faces the mother's spine in utero and/or during labor. This is the most common position for emerging babies.
Anterior Position
If the baby is in this position, it means that its spine faces the front of the pelvis..
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In an anterior position, your baby fits snugly into the curve of your pelvis. During labour, your baby will curl his back over and tuck his chin into his chest. Your labour and birth should progress easily if your baby is in this position because: ...
Facing back toward the tailbone is the ideal situation-this is called an anterior position. When the baby is facing up toward the pubic bone (called a posterior position ), the labor may be slower and the mother may feel more back pain.
The incidence of a posterior presentation occurring at the onset of labor is 15 to 30 percent, and many such babies rotate spontaneously to an anterior position.
When the fetal head had descended to +2 station in the anterior position, women were randomly assigned to spontaneous birth (N = 168) or outlet forceps delivery (N = 165).
1 cm dialated, 50% effaced, my cervix is in the anterior position & baby is -3 (which is good, means she is moving down in the right position). We did have to choose a last possible induction date.
About 90% of babies will rotate to the OA (occiput anterior position, facing down towards the mother's rear) prior to birth. A few will even be born facing "sunny side up," sometimes called star gazers.
An OP baby and mother will have to work harder in labour to have a vaginal birth, and labour is often longer and more painful while the baby tries to rotate to the anterior position.
About 2/3 of vertex presenting babies are in a left occiput anterior (See Anterior.) and 1/3 are in a right occiput anterior position. Up to 14% of babies are in a breech presentation until the 29th-32nd week of gestation.
The nurse on this shift used to be a Bradley instructor (we had taken bradley classes), and she helped a lot. We did some hip circles and things to try and get the baby to rotate to an anterior position, ...
 See also: Anterior, Pregnancy, Cervix, Amnio, Pregnant
  
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