Anyone else have their cervix behind the babies head?
I am 41 weeks 2 days and stressed. I have had three attempts at sweeps and each time the babies head has been in front of my cervix and the midwife has really struggled to get to it. So it’s been a week of this and no change.
Has anyone else had this and what ended up happening with your birth?
They said they can try a balloon but I’m worried it won’t work due to the position of the babies head. Not to mention it’s probably going to be horrible trying to even insert it if they can.
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Are you able to get the pessary, it’s like a ribbon that goes in the same place as the balloon, it looked alot more comfier ( my first baby so unsure what the balloon is actually like) but I had very similar situation to you, I had the pessary and within 24 hours I had my little girl
I was 41 and 3 days, and I had also had like 4 cervical sweeps, I dilated to 1cm from one of them but at the next I wasn’t dilated at all
I had this and it got to the point where it was too painful for them to go in as the cervix was so far up and behind his head
They offered me rods which is where they put you in the leg things and tilt the bed and try and insert rods to slowly bring your cervix down and open but again the cervix is so far up and behind that alone would have been hard to get to and then your like that for 16/18 hours and they advised it still might not work so other option was c section with spinal block
I opted for the c section as I was in that much pain from them attempted to get in and contractions for 4 days along with it all
I had 4 sweeps and the baby’s head was low and the cervix wasn’t that underneath his head really, they managed to get me to 3cm though. I was in latent labour for days but never progressed and I was due to be induced but I did finally get something like regular ish contractions so I went to hospital and we agreed to break my waters there and then as otherwise I only would’ve been going back the next day for the same as I was 9 days over by this point. Baby boy arrived 2.5 hours later after my waters were broken in the pool, active labour was only recorded as 50 minutes! Once my waters gone I finally had enough weight to open my cervix more, it was still a bit thick when I first went in and they broke them x
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