Normally babies emerge from the birth canal with their face pointing towards the mother’s back; malpresentation occurs when the baby faces forward or fails to turn into the head-down position in the last few weeks of pregnancy. The face-forward or occipito-posterior position usually causes prolonged labour and severe backache, ‘backache labour’; the buttocks-down or ‘breech’ position can make delivery extremely difficult since the buttocks do not enlarge the birth canal sufficiently for the head to follow easily. In these and other forms of malpresentation the baby may have to be delivered by Caesarean.
Specific remedy to be given hourly for up 3 doses
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