Can I prepare for an easier labor this time?

Here is a second list of activities for women who have had difficult births before: cesareans, long labors or asynclitic babies. If you've done the usual Spinning Babies exercises for two weeks and your baby is still breech, transverse, or posterior, click on the title above. Women who have pelvic pain (in joints or in the lower back) or discomfort from the baby's movements are also candidates for this "second list."

Before you expect a problem, read What To Do Now In Pregnancy and The Three Principles.

Spend a portion of each day doing 4-5 activities listed on this website or others that relate to body balancing that you may know.

• Rebozo sifting to relax the broad ligament
• Standing (Sacral) Release to release the sacrum and help your pelvis become more mobile

• Forward-leaning Inversion to balance your uterine ligaments and adjust your own pelvis with many repetitions of this type of maternal inversion

• Psoas Release, also, walk briskly letting your legs swing forward from your thighs in a good flowing gait to help your psoas get happy
• Pelvic-balancing yoga for pregnant women with "hip-openers," bridge pose, triangle pose of happiness, and more...
• Symphysis self adjustment
  
• Side-lying (pelvic floor) Release
• When baby is active, then do 40 pelvic tilts on hands and knees, especially immediately following a Forward-leaning Inversion
• Crawl around on all-fours for 5 or more minutes a few times a week, picking up toys, washing your floor.
  

 Not all of these activities are on this website yet. I'm sorry for the inconvenience.

See a body worker who can help bring you into balance. But also do balancing exercises, such as pelvic strengthening and hip openers learned from physical therapists and in prenatal yoga. Do those exercises every day.