Occiput Posterior - Abnormal Labor Presentation

What is Occiput Posterior?

The most common position for a baby during labor is head down with the back of the head (occiput) facing the front of the mother (anterior). When the back of the head is facing the back of the mother (posterior) the baby's position is called Occiput Posterior.

Mechanisms of Birth - Complications of Labor
http://w3.palmer.edu/oneill/OBPEDS/PPT%20FW%2007/Complications%20of%20Labor%20(c%20fw06).ppt

Abnormal Labor
by Barbara M. O’Brien, M.D.Women and Infants Hospital, Brown University
https://wiki.brown.edu/confluence/download/attachments/25952305/Abnormal+Labor.ppt?version=1

Pregnancy, Labor and Delivery
by Calla Holmgren, MD, University of Washington
http://faculty.washington.edu/tracyj/Rehab%20400%202008%20Unit%201/pregnancylaboranddeliveryDelivery.ppt

Assessment of Complications During The Labor Process
by Prof. Unn Hidle
http://faculty.lagcc.cuny.edu/uhidle/SCR270/MATERNAL/sixlaboranddeliveryproblems.ppt

Pregnancy Childbirth and Postpartum at Risk
http://www.mccc.edu/~martinl/documents/MODULE4garysp11.ppt

Electronic Fetal Monitors
http://elearning.najah.edu/OldData/pdfs/1156Electronic%20Fetal%20Monitors.ppt


Labor and Birth Processes
http://faculty.msmc.edu/hrelic/ppt/Chapters%2018,%2019,%2020,%2021%20(part%201).ppt

Fetal Face
http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/Departments/hlscitp/dms/faculty/lzanin/bulletinboardfiles/213/MS213Lectures/MS213Face.ppt