We sure tried, but my baby’s didn’t move. However, I did allow the water to be broken, and I think that was a mistake. Maybe. But I did push her out successfully and didn’t have stitches (though I did tear). So, though the baby didn’t move despite position changes and midwife trying to manually move her…vaginal birth did happen.

Just like my posterior baby couldn’t possibly have turned on the way down the birth canal and come out properly. I guess I’m lucky not all of the midwives in my practice were medwives and they called the one who knew about spinning babies so she could help them help me.

That’s interesting doc, since I, a lowly homebirth midwife, just wrote up an article about how to get the asynclitic baby’s head re-aligned so the mother can push the child out on her own. Good to know that the many babies, who’s births were facilitated in this manner, were a fluke.

Really???? Stairs two at a time works great! Lunges work great!!! Get creative. Heck even walking sometimes does the trick. Asynclitic babies do turn! I know this from helping my clients turn their babies and from having to turn my own!!! To navigate my pelvis, all but two of my six kids went asynclitic and they turned—all I had to was walk!

Yeah, my asynclitic baby (at labor onset) eventually was born perfect LOA…with a caput. But she did turn. So, meh.

I birthed an asynclitic babe 3 weeks ago at home. Didn’t even know he’d been asynclitic until after he was born. We realized it because of the location of the caput. (I had no vaginal exams at all before or during the birth.) It makes me wonder how many moms “can’t” vaginally birth malpositioned babies because they KNOW the baby is malpositioned. I don’t mean that they choose not to, but that they are set up to think it’s going to be too hard, or maybe not possible, and they might give up more easily because of that? Hmmmmmm.

When was this said? I did a ton of walking in the 3rd trimester and lots of laying on an incline and Downward Dog and my son turned on his own (and flipped from breech) by about 34 weeks.

Well, they must be able to turned sometimes, because my first baby was ascynclitic and the midwife kept on manually turning her head to a normal position. Apparently this usually worked for my midwife, but my stubborn daughter kept turning her head back. But I did have a sucessful, albeit long and hard, vaginal birth with her.

I understand where this CNM is coming from. My VBAC baby was asynclitic and it took 4 hours and 16 mins to push her out. Worst. Pain. Of my Life. I had severe pelvic pain for 6 months post partum. (I had a hospital birth with CNM’s.) The way her head was titled and wedged made it impossible to correct manually. I jus had to push hard to pass her crooked head.)

Funny…. First referance I went to to double check that this ment a twisted head, says, ” Most asynclitism corrects spontaneously in the progress of normal labor. ” funny….most must mean none in Dr speak , or normal means no Drs.?

Add my name to the list of women who successfully birthed an asynclitic babe at home! Hoo boy he had quite the lopsided cone head! And pushing was super hard, but he came! And he was beautiful and healthy!

Another asynclitic baby birther here. He was born at 43+3 and weighed 11 lbs, I had a short 5 hour labour and no tears. Never say never lol!

I didn’t evenknow what asynclitic was so I ran a search before I even open this thread. Guess what came up http://spinningbabies.com/baby-positions/all-positions/asynclitism Perhaps the problem is that mom is in bed hooked to a monitor and the staff is looking for problems rather than focusing on prevention and solutions.

I did stand and walk and change positions. My midwife even manually tried to turn the head. My baby was persistent OP and asynclitic. Again, her cord was tight. I’d feel her body turn with the midwife (boy did that hurt), and then she would flip right back. With the decels, the midwife just believed I needed to go for it and push. So it’s not always being in bed hooked to a monitor because the midwife certainly did her part to hold a monitor on my belly herself and I rocked. Before that point I walked and bathed and was on hands and knees etc. Baby just didn’t turn for me. But in my previous births I had two known OP babies turn. One was turned by the OB manually, and one was turned because the nurses had me change positions from hands/knees, upright, left, back, right, back to hands and knees. That baby turned and then came out in the caul. Because I’ve had so many OP (one baby I birthed came out on the table and no nurse was paying attention even, but my hubby says she was face up when she came out so maybe she was OP too), that my pelvis might just be shaped in a way that the babies like to sit OP there. So it may not be anything but how the key has to fit the lock. I’ve always been an upright laboring woman, so I have successfully birthed these babies…your point about in the bed could apply….

I just read in Birthsong (midwifery study guide) that asynclitism is NORMAL in primiparas and grand multiparas with pendulous abdomens. It’s not a sentence to C-section, it means mom needs to move around!

Mine stayed anscylitic but I have huge “birthin hips” and pushed him out 6 pushes with an epidural. (I asked for one after 24 hours in active labor, 48 hours w out sleep. I was toast and yes we did try different positions before I threw in the “drug free” towel). My midwife’s comment “that’s why you had so much trouble his head was all twisty!! Don’t you worry, the next kid will be a much quicker labor! In fact you will be lucky to make it here next time!!!”

I think, knowing my son now for almost a year and 1/2 that it had everything to do with him. He’s a stubborn willfull booger.

Posterior presentation here/pelvic outlet too small…I fought like hell to get him out but ultimately, failed. C-section…which I had feared ending up with.

*sigh*

My 1st babe’s head presented off kilter too. My midwives did something they called ‘shimmying’. From a stand I leaned over a bit and put my hands on a countertop, they wrapped a long piece of fabric under my belly, pulled up, and vigorously shook it back and forth (but short movements, only a couple inches) baby’s head slid right into position. (Then his shoulders got stuck on the way out *sigh*)

Who was your midwife? Same thing happened to me 6 days of pre labour, long painful nights, no sleep and no reasons or ideas from my home birthing midwife apart from telling it was my journey… Maybe more factual information would have prevented me feeling unsupported and so I went to hospital and had a c section. not what I ever wanted, far from it!