What does this mean?

[cs22]

Hi all,
Ive just noticed in my midwifes notes that she has wrote next to presentation ; LONG CEPHALIC. Does anyone know what that means? Thanks x

 

[Kayleigh09]

Cephalic is head down, not sure why she's written long cephalic

 

[cs22]

Cephalic is head down, not sure why she's written long cephalic

Thank you. The midwifes writing is a bit squiffy hard to read but thats what it looks like anyway. Thank you x

 

[Rah]

I would guess long is the lie so longitudinal not transverse ???

 

[Pixie]

It means head down with babies back outwards (rather than babies back to your back) It's a great position for baby to be in xx

 

[Mum2b_Claire]

Hmm, confusing, my midwife wrote 'long cephalic' yesterday but he told me my baby is back to back, from googling it seems that 'long' just means 'longitudinal lie' so lying parrallel to your spine.

 

[Kitten]

I've had fun googling all this, my notes said "long lie" "cephalic presentation" "ROA/ROL".

Apparently long lie just means baby is like in a standing position in your womb (whether it's on his feet or head) as opposed to transverse when it lies across your womb like it's lying in a bed sleeping.

Cephalic means head down.

ROA means its on the right had side facing your back
ROL means right hand side facing side on

so my baby must be half facing my back, half facing my left hand side.

It's good fun working out all this stuff