Gravity first? The idea of using gravity to swing baby’s back around to a pregnant mother’s abdomen is a popular hope with a misunderstanding of the cause of challenging fetal positions. It seems that people, even in birth work, think that the baby is floating randomly and settles into position only by virtue of gravity […]
Let’s explore fetal engagement in detail. The widest part of the baby’s head is the parietal eminence. You can feel your own parietal emininence as a soft “corner” on the top and outside edge of your head. As the broad ligament, wrapping the uterus, softens at the end of pregnancy, the baby lowers in the abdomen. […]
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