These are pictures of me and a colleague doing a Mexican rebozo technique on a heavily pregnant client. This technique can successfully turn a baby from a posterior position (baby’s back to mothers back) to an anterior one (baby’s back to the front). It is a highly successful technique that works for a myriad of baby positioning. Plus it’s great fun and relationship building for mothers and midwives alike.
This can be done at home with your partner on a regular basis to encourage your baby into a great position for birth.
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Wow, my baby belly looks so big from that angle lol! I loved this technique and was surprised how quickly it helped my baby to turn too, will be interesting to see if she has stayed in the best position.
I know this is an older post, but would you mind sharing what you’re doing in the pictures above? Is mom rolling or are the midwives rolling her? Are her hips raised off the floor? Thanks for the pics…I’m so interested in learning more about rebozo.
The midwives are using the rebozo to roll the woman back and forth. She is laying flat on the floor and rolling from side to side.
My partner did this for me quite vigorously as my boy was lying ROP, and it felt great! I was a little concerned when my baby didn’t move for a while afterwards, but he started moving in a couple of hours. Maybe it had just lulled him to sleep. Anyway, next day I had a show, and 4 days later I gave birth at home before the midwife could make it there. My partner caught him. It was too quick to be as spiritual as the birth of my previous son, but it was marvellous to know we’d done it all by ourselves – with helpful advice from this site, obviously.
It would be great if the video clip still worked to see how vigorously it is safe to do it.
I didn’t realise the clip didn’t work. I’ll make sure it gets fixed. We had so much trouble when we changed the blog from blogger to word press, copying everything over. I obviously overlooked this.
That looks pretty interesting!
How do you know if it as worked?
The Mexicans look like they are onto some good stuff.
If this works, it would be a great technique to have in your arsenal. I guess the only issue would be, is it safe to do?
Dear AP I think more women have died from an adverse reaction to antibiotics than have suffered from Rebozo, however I think you can manipulate stats to suit your point of view so maybe the jury are still out.
Thanks so much I’m a doula and always looking for new tools to help comfort my moms.
I brought a rebozo at a conference and have not used it yet, but this gave me confidence to try it especially with a posterior positioned baby it was good to hear how fast and effective it worked. Please share more with us on how we can use this in labor. Hope you hurry and get the site running again so we can see the demonstration. The pictures were great.
Loving Birth,SJ.