Let the 'Optimal Fetal Positioning' begin...

... or put simply, this girl has a fully inflated gym ball and isn't afraid to (look like a tit) using it! Thanks to Al's dad, I now have a fully inflated ball to wobble about like a tw*t on, as per the midwife's advice. She suggested it to try an encourage Dyl to engage better i.e. for his head to drop down further into my pelvis so I can have some of my lungs back, though probably at the expense of my bladder no doubt!

"There's nothing new about trying to get your baby into a good position. Reports of 'maternal posturing' go back to at least the 19th century (Andrews 2004). It's known today as optimal fetal positioning (OFP) because of a midwife called Jean Sutton who publicised the technique in the 1990s. She advised pregnant women to get into upright and forward-leaning postures as often as possible in later pregnancy (Sutton 1994, 1996)...So far, studies into OFP show that adopting a hands and knees position for 10 minutes, twice a day, towards the end of pregnancy can help move your baby into an anterior position in late pregnancy." BabyCentre

So there we go. The gym ball is just another method which I blatantly am favouring over the 'on all fours' version as a) my leg injuries won't like it and b) I'll look like a complete pillock! It is not my idea of fun to look like a grazing dairy cow, even if I have the udders for it! So the ball it is! In fact, I'm sat on it as I type, leaning over they keyboard and rocking like a loony. What a mental image eh...?