Baby position

[BettyHoop]

Had the midwife today and after baby being breech for a while she couldn't determine it's position exactly by palpating my uterus. She had to push really hard just above my pubic bone to see if she could feel the head but wasn't sure, and said if it was the head down low it was very far back. Has anyone else experienced this? Does it mean the baby could be head down and back to back perhaps? I'm so impatient to know! I have a consultant appointment on Tuesday so will know more then and will update xx

 

[Piglet's Mama]

Didn't want to read and run but since 25 weeks my babe was transverse or breech. The little monkey FINALLY flipped cephalic 2 weeks ago, just before 34 weeks. Hopefully they can tell you definitively at your next appointment. I think as they run out of room it gets harder for them to tell what position they're in!

 

[BettyHoop]

I used to feel sure of the position myself too but as I've got bigger and my tummy us stretched tighter it has gotten harder to tell if it really is a head I'm feeling up by my ribs. The last 10 days or so I have had periods where I'm very uncomfortable and have felt baby spinning around so I know it's possible for it to go head down. I'm so glad yours is head down xx

 

[SpiritedAway]

I'm only 29 weeks, I've been worrying baby will be breech ever since last week funnily enough lol.. so I googled this. I honestly am no expert and I thought my one was head down as I've been getting hiccups below my belly button and low in my pelvic area but doing these things I'm not so sure.

https://pregnancy.thefuntimesguide.com/baby_position_in_womb/amp/

One of the things I used but he squirms so much -

"If you feel a lump near the top of your belly (usually on one side or the other) push lightly on it. Then:

If you feel the whole baby move, he or she is most likely head down, meaning you pushed on the baby’s bottom.
If the lump you feel moves by itself, without the rest of the baby’s body re-situating inside your belly, then that lump is probably the baby’s head, which moves independently of the rest of the baby’s body."

Probably best to wait and see, I remember watching an old One Born and the midwife goes into panic mode saying shes breech, shes breech.. gets Drs in on emergency mode and turns out she wasn't it was head and lips lol.. Sometimes theyre wrong, the consultant might have a better idea or scan you x

 

[BettyHoop]

When I push on the lump at the top it doesn't usually make the baby move! And I mostly get hiccups right at the bottom of my bump all the while it's been breech and even had a midwife say thats normal in breech presentation as it's the babys legs twitching with the hiccups. When I thought it had turned head down I felt hiccups much higher up. Who knows we could have been wrong all along, maybe it has a big bum we have been mistaking for the head!!!!! I hope the consultant will just scan me there and then on Tuesday so I can get a better idea of what's going on! Xx

 

[SpiritedAway]

Yeh I mean I push top, below the ribs and right at bottom of bump to see, and he just wiggles one way and then i try the other and he wiggles too so I can't tell at all.

I didnt know that about the hiccuping so bum.. I was convinced he was head down already. Doppler is one too, if you get a reading down low, chances are that baby is head down but all these things baby can probably defy them lol.

I think if they are unsure you might get a scan you know, I have a private 4D one next Saturday so im going to ask out of interest and then i have 3 nhs ones to check on his size as i have a underactive thyroid so i think it'll stop me worrying as i really want a water birth.

Fingers crossed for you xx

 

[BettyHoop]

Thank you. Hope all goes well with you too. We listened with the doppler today and still couldn't tell as we could heat the heartbeat both above and below my belly button! So frustrating not knowing! Xx