I know that many twin births have proceeded well at home and elsewhere especially when the mother was encouraged /enabled to assume an upright posture or move off her back. This would surely enable gravity to do its job in aligning the baby more favourably and then bring it down more quickly (if that seemed necessary)? An epidural would, in this case, be most undesirable, as the first casualty of an epidural is the loss of mobility for the woman. Even with the so-called "mobile" or "walking" epidurals, it can be hard to manoeuvre when there is a drip, monitor etc attached as well. As twins are also usually smaller than a singleton baby, there should be less concern about the second twin being breech as the smaller baby will have more space as it progresses through the pelvis. This seems to be common sense to me .... surely these issues could be made known to the woman who should have the final say anyway, without any undue pressure or loaded emotional statements from scared medicos to try and sway her thinking? Stray thoughts from Andrea -- This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. Visit <http://www.acegraphics.com.au> to subscribe or unsubscribe.
