If there is space between the baby’s head and the pubic bone that is a high head. The head should be able to engage down into the pelvic inlet and there shouldn’t be any space between the baby’s head and the bone.
you mention (around 9 minutes in) in reference to Sciatica – about wanting to avoid standing or sitting postures that cause increased pressure of the sacrum anteriorly and also mention wanting to avoid posterior rotation so the coccyx can be freed. You speaking to two different ways pelvic positioning may present itself – for some with an anteriorly tipped pelvis / sacrum and for others posterior pelvic positioning? And either orientation being one we want to bring awareness to so the client can shift out of that habitual pattern – or am I not following what you’re saying about the sacral pressure and posterior positioning of the pelvis? thanks
Increasing pressure on the sacrum in sitting is posterior rotation of the pelvis. Basically I would want to encourage more anterior rotation then posterior rotation. Just help your clients become aware of what they are doing with their pelvis. Where are their pressures they are placing on it and can we help avoid those that will close up the pelvic outlet. I also doing want to get too nitty gritty with my clients. I look for more extreme positioning and rarely is anterior rotation a problem for labor. It may be contributing to some back pain in pregnancy but it won’t make labor more challenging. Hope this answers your question.
Jamie, the client will report that it feels like a bruise when you go to palpate it. So yes to the client reporting it. I don’t feel the bruise, they do.
what do you mean by “high head”?
If there is space between the baby’s head and the pubic bone that is a high head. The head should be able to engage down into the pelvic inlet and there shouldn’t be any space between the baby’s head and the bone.
you mention (around 9 minutes in) in reference to Sciatica – about wanting to avoid standing or sitting postures that cause increased pressure of the sacrum anteriorly and also mention wanting to avoid posterior rotation so the coccyx can be freed. You speaking to two different ways pelvic positioning may present itself – for some with an anteriorly tipped pelvis / sacrum and for others posterior pelvic positioning? And either orientation being one we want to bring awareness to so the client can shift out of that habitual pattern – or am I not following what you’re saying about the sacral pressure and posterior positioning of the pelvis? thanks
Increasing pressure on the sacrum in sitting is posterior rotation of the pelvis. Basically I would want to encourage more anterior rotation then posterior rotation. Just help your clients become aware of what they are doing with their pelvis. Where are their pressures they are placing on it and can we help avoid those that will close up the pelvic outlet. I also doing want to get too nitty gritty with my clients. I look for more extreme positioning and rarely is anterior rotation a problem for labor. It may be contributing to some back pain in pregnancy but it won’t make labor more challenging. Hope this answers your question.
Are you talking about the CLIENT reporting a bruised feeling, or about something YOU are actually feeling?
Jamie, the client will report that it feels like a bruise when you go to palpate it. So yes to the client reporting it. I don’t feel the bruise, they do.