baby positions - Page 2

[Awaken]

Originally Posted by MrsMoe

I have no earthly clue how you ladies know where your babies are... and in such detail

Ok, I'm glad someone else said it, too! I feel left out I have no idea! And every time I went to appointments the mw's sort of sweetly refused to even feel around or make a guess! Really weird. Now that we will probably be using a different mw and I'm further along hopefully she can give me an idea of where this babe is!

I really can't differentiate any body parts. I feel very sharp parts pushing out on either side of my belly button and towards the sides, and sometimes it feels like feet are prying my right ribs upward! I am happy that when I feel hiccups they are down low! It doesn't feel like a head is down low, but I never felt that with ds either and he was head down they whole time.

[BensMom]

Originally Posted by MrsMoe

I have no earthly clue how you ladies know where your babies are... and in such detail

This site really helps - its called belly mapping. You basically take a few things into consideration - head or butt (which a provider can tell you from palpating), where they heard the heartbeat, whether you feel a back along one side and where your kicks are. You basically put it all together and it gives you a pretty good feel for how your babe is laying at that moment.

My MW said that heads and butts feel similar, but when you can grab hold of one, they act different. I can't tell personally, since I swore that bump at top was a head. My confusion right now lies with the fact that all my kicks are down low and I have an obvious back along the left side, which doesnt match up with any of the belly mapping pics. Unless I have a baby with freakishly long legs.

[MrsMoe]

Originally Posted by BensMom

This site really helps - its called belly mapping. You basically take a few things into consideration - head or butt (which a provider can tell you from palpating), where they heard the heartbeat, whether you feel a back along one side and where your kicks are. You basically put it all together and it gives you a pretty good feel for how your babe is laying at that moment.

My MW said that heads and butts feel similar, but when you can grab hold of one, they act different. I can't tell personally, since I swore that bump at top was a head. My confusion right now lies with the fact that all my kicks are down low and I have an obvious back along the left side, which doesnt match up with any of the belly mapping pics. Unless I have a baby with freakishly long legs.

I feel a round object top and bottom - and can't tell which is the head and which is the butt :LOL How do they react when touched?

Thanks for the link btw! I feel kicks high AND low and can't tell which is hand jabs and which is foot jabs and which is elbow jabs and what is knee jabs... she's a regular octopus!

Iam going to try to fall back asleep now... will check out site tomorrow!

[Slackermom]

Head down and posterior here. Working on moving to anterior! Honestly, though, this baby flips around so much during the course of a day that I'm not sure where s/he'll end up.

[PicnicBear]

Originally Posted by MrsMoe

I feel a round object top and bottom - and can't tell which is the head and which is the butt :LOL How do they react when touched?

Thanks for the link btw! I feel kicks high AND low and can't tell which is hand jabs and which is foot jabs and which is elbow jabs and what is knee jabs... she's a regular octopus!

Iam going to try to fall back asleep now... will check out site tomorrow!

The way to tell is to have someone listen for the heartbeat -- if it's down low that that's the head down there. Also, I feel hiccups down there, so that clued me in.

[s_kristina]

Baby is trasverse and high. He is laying right under my ribs so he can kick and punch all over the place. We actually heard his heartbeat almost in my ribs on the right side yesterday. Also since this is the direction he is laying most of the time I did get a worse case scenario talk yesterday about c-sections! For now we are just hoping he moves around to head down. Anyone know a good way to get a very comfortable transverse baby to move head down?

[nataliekat]

My little lady is head-down and anterior-ish. She actually lays on either side, which is supposed to be good for getting her back against my belly button during labor.

She usually lays against my left side, with her butt on my upper left, her solid little back along the left side. Then I feel all her hand movements against my right hip bone. It's pretty funny.

[dancingmama]

Yeah, good news! The baby is now head down. It turns out when I pushed what I thought was the head down out of transverse in the tub, I was right!

Mrs. Moe, if you kind of hold onto the head and wobble it side to side, it kind of wobbles like a head would. But if you do the same to the butt, it doesn't feel as "loose." That's one of the things my midwives do, and that is the way i figured out which side to push down when it went transverse.

kristina, I got into a deep whirlpool tub so the babe would kind of float, and then just gently and persistantly pushed the head down and the butt up. It worked. And with my first dd, she was mostly posterior when i went into labor, and i was able to lie on my side, find her butt on the right and toward my back, and push it anterior. when she got anterior, that's when active labor started. So I guess i have some luck with pushing them! Of course, I never force anything, just encourage

[dancingmama]

Yeah, good news! The baby is now head down -- just saw the midwives to check. It turns out when I pushed what I thought was the head down out of transverse in the tub, I was right!

Mrs. Moe, if you kind of hold onto the head and wobble it side to side, it kind of wobbles like a head would. But if you do the same to the butt, it doesn't feel as "loose." That's one of the things my midwives do, and that is the way i figured out which side to push down when it went transverse.

kristina, I got into a deep whirlpool tub so the babe would kind of float, and then just gently and persistantly pushed the head down and the butt up. It worked. And with my first dd, she was mostly posterior when i went into labor, and i was able to lie on my side, find her butt on the right and toward my back, and push it anterior. when she got anterior, that's when active labor started. So I guess i have some luck with pushing them! Of course, I never force anything, just encourage

[Queen of Cups]

Originally Posted by dancingmama

This past weekend, it moved *ACK* transverse, and honestly I looked like one of those cartoons that swallowed a whole cucumber and it got stuck in it's neck!

Ha! This is EXACTLY the position my baby has been in for the entire pregnancy! Occasionally, the baby will shift so its a little more diagonal with the head down lower, but the last few days especially I've had little feet poking out my side coninually. Its sooo uncomfortable to fall asleep with the little feet pushing on my side. The cucumber image is exactly how I feel about 90% of the time! Everyone says I'm carrying higher this time, and I know its because the baby isn't head down. DS was head down the entire pregnancy, though he was still diagonally across my belly - but the head was low. This time the entire baby is still above my hips, I swear.

[samsmamma]

Mine is evidently head down and low, with its back on my right side. This is a big change from two weeks ago, when it was horizontal across my belly!

[Gunter]

I really am impressed, too that you all know such details of baby positions. I will pretend to not know b/c this is my first babe, yeah, that sounds good.

The babe is definately LOW and hangs around my left side with it's butt/or head to my left. I actually did feel a foot or hand pooking out of my left side yesterday! It was amazing to feel that with my own hand. I called DH at work to tell him and he was jealous to not be with me when such cool stuff was happening!

MW appt. on Sat so we'll learn more then. I gotta check out the website someone linked, too.

[kel]

Just like a lot of others, the reason I know my baby's position if because my midwives told me, and so I know which jabs are feet/knees and which are hands/elbows. When I was laying on my back at the midwives she helped me feel the head down by my pelvis and I can usually feel it by myself, lying down, too. I've read that when you kind of push gently on the head that the rest of the baby stays still, but if you push on the bottom the whole baby will move.