Is the right occipital anterior position a pelvic engagement?

Pregnancy is a very happy thing for women, because it allows them to complete the role transition and experience the feeling of being a mother. However, the process of pregnancy is very difficult, and many women are easily frightened by this process. For example, the labor stage is the most dangerous, and you need to know the position of the fetus at all times. Let’s see if the right occipital anterior position is in the pelvis? I hope everyone can understand it.

Right occipital anterior position is a type of fetal position, which is quite an ideal fetal position. Schematic diagram of right occipital anterior fetal position. The fetal position refers to the relationship between the designated part of the fetal presenting part and the front, back, left and right of the maternal pelvis. The normal fetal position is mostly occipital anterior. During prenatal examination after 30 weeks of pregnancy, malpositions such as breech presentation, transverse presentation, occiput posterior presentation, and facial presentation are found, among which breech presentation is the most common. If malposition of the fetus is not corrected, it may cause dystocia during delivery.

Don't panic if you find that the fetus is in an abnormal position. You can take the following measures to solve it:

1. Before 28 weeks of pregnancy, you can do knee-chest exercises to correct the fetal position, once in the morning and once in the evening, each time for 10 minutes, for one week, and the fetal position can be corrected. The posture is to lie on a hard bed with chest and knees on the bed, hips raised, thighs perpendicular to the bed, and chest as close to the bed as possible. But be sure to loosen your belt before doing it.

2. Use moxa roll to burn the Zhiyin acupoint on the outside of the two little toes once a day for 1 to 20 minutes each time, and do it continuously for 1 week. Be careful not to bring the moxa roll too close to the skin to avoid burning the skin.

3. If the above two methods are ineffective, you can consider turning the fetus over from the outside, allowing it to flip 180 degrees, and then wrap the abdomen with cloth to maintain the head position. The specific method is to touch the fetal head on the abdominal wall with your hand, then slowly turn the fetal head into the pelvic cavity, and then push the buttocks up. Of course, this treatment must be performed by a doctor. If you do it yourself, it may cause the umbilical cord to be wrapped around the fetus' neck or fetal abruption to occur. If the fetus's buttocks and feet have already extended into the small pelvis and inversion is difficult, or if there are changes in the fetal heart rate during inversion, you cannot force it and you will have to give birth to this "stubborn" child standing up.