When Body and Baby Align: Supporting Pelvic Engagement

Naturally babies are suppose to be head down by 36 weeks and starting to engage in the pelvis to get ready for birth around 40 weeks, but some need a little help.

If your having your first, your body is ripening and gettig ready for the first time. If your having your 3rd or more baby, sometimes they don't get into the pelvis like their suppose to before labor.

The more pregnanies you've had the more important it is to watch for these signs:

1. People commenting you look like you're having twins when your not.

2. After 35 weeks, when you sit down, the baby lays on your lap.

3. You're back gets really sore from the weight of the baby

4. Baby likes to float out of the pelvis and swim around going breech, transverse and head down after 35 weeks.

5. You are going overdue

6. You've been told you have a diastasis recti- you're abdominal muscle are separated.

There is a solution! Yay!

First let me tell you why it happens to give you a better idea of why the solution works.

When your pregnant and your tummy stretches out, the muscles don't always tone back-up again before the next baby is on its way. Because they stretch easier and have less tone, each baby puts more strain on them until they cant hold the baby in your body as they should. When this happens, the baby has too much freedom to move around and not the support to keep them up in your body . where they belong. When they are up in your body, it allows them to sink into the your pelvis and get cozy.

When they sink into the pelvis, it helps to keep them in the best position, AKA, head down and aligned for birth. It puts the pressure from their weight where it can do the most good; on your cervix to help ripen you, instead of out front. It also prevents them from floating up and changing positions.

💛So how do you help your baby stay up in your body? Glad you asked

Your abdominal muscles and uterus need extra support in the form of a belly band. Not just any belly band as some are good just for a little extra support to take the pressure off the back and are often thin and worn low on the abdomen. Wearing it low only increases the problem as it pushes the baby up.

The belly band or abdominal support has to be wide enough and strong enough to do the job without being so big it rolls.

👉Most importany key is to wear it so it actually is more over your belly button. laying down to put it on or putting the front on and then you lift the baby up and into your body while your partner fastens it.

👉Put a cotton shirt or tank on first then the band and then your underwear. This allows you to wear it and still use the bathroom easily.

👉It will feel snuggle at first. Give it some time to adjust.

👉Wear it all day and if baby floats, be sure head is down and you wear it at night too.

(note-these are ones I suggest and I am not an affiliate or receive any commision for.)

Neotech Care Pregnancy Support- The key is to wear it backwards with the wider portion in the front.

Gabriella USA made Belly Band - Wear it backwards also.

After years of being a midwife, I've learned a thing or two about preventing complications and bringing things back to normal. No one wants to have a C/Section because their baby was transfers or sideways or breech when there was a solution and they could have had a natural birth.

Natural birth is what midwives are experts at. So if you want to have the healthiest birth, free of complications from over interventions, interview a midwife in your local area and you'll be amazed at what you'll learn from them. After all you're the person growing your baby and it's your job to birth them, so education is your ticket. Midwives love to share their wisdom and knowledge to support your best story.

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