OMP Guide to Labor Progress

OMP Guide to labor progress

‘If it ain’t broken, don’t fix it!’ If labor is progressing, you can choose to use OMP Pelvic Alignment Protocols as a ‘just in case’ whenever the mother is able during labor, and definitely utilise OMP Active Birth Positions together with OMP Pelvic Mobility Protocols and OMP Comfort Measures during all stages of labor whenever possible. However, if you suspect based on abnormal and/or asymmetrical labor patterns that labor is not progressing, you can use the OMP Guide to Labor Progress to assist you.

Unfortunately, like all things when on paper, the guide follows a linear process however, as we all know labor and birth is NEVER linear and no two births are the same, so do exercise your common sense and creativity by ALWAYS trusting yourself to read in-between the lines.

1. Where is this baby and what is this baby trying to do?

2. Is there a road block?

3. Has the labouring mother used any OMP Pelvic Alignment Protocols to align her pelvis to increase pelvic mobility?

4. Has the labouring mother used any OMP Active Birth Positions and/or OMP Pelvic Mobility Protocols to CHANGE THE ORIENTATION of the pelvic openings?

5. Has the labouring mother used any OMP Active Birth Positions and/or OMP Pelvic Mobility Protocols and/orOMP Comfort Measures to MODIFY the pelvic openings?

Remember that the concept of OMP is to enable a mother’s hot air balloon to maintain dynamic equilibrium in order for the ‘key’ to have a straight forward path into the ‘keyhole’ so the first aim is to always get the hot air balloon in dynamic equilibrium before we use OMP Active Birth Positions , OMP Pelvic Mobility Protocols and OMP Comfort Measures to optimise the pelvis.

By the time the mother is at (3) onwards, you will find that whilst all these exercises are very comfortable and manageable during pregnancy, its relatively uncomfortable when utilised during labor and birth, so often steps (3), (4) and (5) are not done in a linear fashion, and are inter-exchangeable instead, depending on what the mother is able to do.

It is important to note that when using (3), (4) and (5) during labor and birth, that these have to be done during contractions in order for it to be effective and used for 5-10 consecutive contractions to ensure they are enabling labor to progress.