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[thecountrymouse]

I'm curious to know where you all are at with this one.  I am 29 weeks and my baby is still horizontal.  One of my midwifes said they like to see the baby head down around 34 weeks.  Another of my midwifes is really good at turning babies, I'm glad to have that option.  I'm going to try talking to this babe and visualizing him turning head down soon.

-thecountrymouse

[eirual]

At my last appt (27wks) MW thought head was down with the back going up my right side. But apparently there's still lots of room for movement and sometimes I feel weird things in weird places, so who knows!

I do try to keep sitting upright/forward vs. reclined and try to be aware of my positioning in hopes of keeping babe happily head down.

[joyfulmomof2]

At my 24 week appt, baby was kind of in a diagonal position. Then a couple weeks later, I saw my chiropractor, and he said he saw some indication of breech positioning just based on what the rest of my body was doing. Anyway, I'm not sure what position the baby is in now (29 weeks- I just had my 28 week appt a few days ago). I think it was pretty close to the same position as before. I feel kicks and squirms in odd places too. There is an adjustment a chiro can do to help baby turn head down, I heard it's pretty successful, if you're concerned about baby not being head down yet. It seems like this one is taking longer to turn than my previous two. It seems like they were both head down from the beginning of my 3rd trimester onward.

[KristaDJ]

My baby changes position constantly, I'm 27wks. S/he seems to spend a good amount of time LOA but I'm not counting on that lol. My last one was LOA for weeks and then switched to posterior at 37wks and stayed that way until right before she came out. A good friend of mine had a head down baby that flipped to breech right before emerging. I don't care much about position, I think babies will pick the position that is right for them if they are given the space. I watch how I sit and do lots of yoga to give baby room to choose the best position but, beyond baby being transverse during the second stage, whatever s/he picks is good with me. 

[Nicole730]

At my ultrasound at 21 weeks, she was head down.I don't really feel a flip or rotate type movements, so I feel like she is still that way.  I am going to ask my midwife if she can tell at my appointment on Wednesday, I will be 26w6d.

[frioct3]

At my 29 week appointment last week my midwife thought the baby was head down.  She said she couldn't be 100% sure though.  Apparently I have a really deep pelvis?  NO CLUE what that is supposed to mean :)

[swelldoula]

I'll be 29 weeks this Friday, and as far as I know, my baby is head down and seems to favor a ROP position. Ugh... more back labor for me! 

[Veritaserum]

I think he is LOA at this particular moment, but he's a fan of somersaults (especially late at night).  It will be several weeks before he locks into birthing position.

[acordio]

28 weeks and 3 days and at my sono on Friday baby was breech.  I have NO clue what is going on in there. I think this baby is flipping all over the place because I get these odd big movements but then again I can't tell since I have never had a baby breech at this point.  Placenta is in front so I don't know what I am feeling and usually I can. 

[tinams8]

I think mine is usually LOP. She definitely is still moving between that and transverse and this morning when I woke up she was way up under my rib cage somehow... I can't believe how much she is still moving around. I can't wait for her to settle in a head down position.

Feet kicking directly upward, like practically kicking you in the boobs, is a good indication of head down, in my experience.

[OceanGypsy87]

My little man is in LOT, has been since like 16 weeks. He really likes his head way down in y pelvis, and he hangs on my left side like a hammock. 

[thecountrymouse]

Somebody please explain LOP, LOT, LAO, ROP.  Thanks!  And thanks everyone who has posted.  This is interesting stuff.  -thecountrymouse  

[KristaDJ]

Go to spinningbabies.com, you will learn all about the different positions :-D  LOA is left occiput anterior and is considered the "ideal" position for birth.
As far as feeling baby change positions, I don't feel it a lot of the time. I palpate the baby before checking for heart tones and s/he always moves while I do that but it's not anything I feel or would notice if I hadn't just checked the position. They can still rotate around rather easily in all that water so it's not hard at all for them to go from LOA to transverse to breech and back to LOA in a matter of moments without much movement felt by mom. 

[Momo123]

30 weeks and he is still moving around a lot. I think he is flipping between transverse/horizontal and vertex judging from the kicks and jabs I can feel.

[darnegoodmommy]

I'm not sure yet but my doula told me that if your belly button is protruding (rather than inverted) that's usually a good sign your baby is in the right position. Mine's protruding!

[KristaDJ]

The belly button really depends on how much fat you have on your body to start with. Women with less belly fat tend to have their navels pop while those of us with more around the middle don't; mine doesn't pop out even if I am skinny. 
The shape of the stomach can sometimes indicate that the baby is posterior but different women carry differently anyway so it's not reliable. My last two were posterior and my belly was perfectly round like normal rather than the flatter shape you sometimes see with posterior. 

[sraplayas]

My last two were posterior too, and boy was that back labor painful! However, I only had to endure 4 hours of it with DS vs. the 30 with DD. :)

Anyway, I'm doing stretches everyday to help open my pelvis and stretch out my glutes, etc hoping this will ease baby into a comfortable spot for birth.

[thecountrymouse]

Last night I felt the baby in new places!  I felt big movement way down above my cervix and up high below my rib cage.  Yay!  Just hope those were kicks I felt at my ribs and punches at my cervix.  Before last night I had only felt movement at the sides of my belly.  My belly looks completely different.  I had a very wide round belly and now it is an upright oval.  Fun stuff!  -thecountrymouse

[kjourdan]

My LO was doing pretty significant movements at about 3 a.m. last night, and then I was feeling movement in different places today.  I have an appointment next Tuesday so I guess we'll see what the MW's guess is...

[tinams8]

My darn belly button has been inside out for months, regardless of how the baby is lying. I hate that!  I feel like sticking a piece of duct tape on it!