Sooo... WHEN does the baby drop?

[amyleigh33]

While many in our DDC are posting birth announcements! I'm still wondering when this baby is going to "drop" like I read in the books... they say "about two weeks before it's born" in first time mamas. How reliable is this?

TIA!

[~Boudicca~]

Honestly, I think dropping can occur any time. You can drop 3 weeks before or 3 hours before. I don't recall any noticable dropping with my daughter, and I am anxiously awaiting the "drop" with this one, particularly because I am experiencing a lot of pain in my cervix and pelvic muscles. I can't walk by a mirror without looking to see if things look a little lower.

[kdtmom2be]

Feels like it's going to be never. My mom says I didn't drop until the day I was born. I think I'm due a week before you are Amy and this little one is stubbornly floating as high as it can in there and feels like a big BLOCK. I am not looking forward to birthing a square baby!

[LilMamiBella]

I think the baby has dropped like a month ago. Baby is definitely lower..I know she can't get any lower than this lol

[crysmomofthree]

the baby drops then comes back out of my pelvis dozens of times a day

I don't remember the baby dropping in any of my other pregnancies. I think its an overrated indication of labor to come

[amyleigh33]

Hmmmm ... I have NO idea then. I bet even if the baby HAD dropped, I wouldn't even know it. I have nooo idea what's going on in there. My babe also feels more like a "block" most of the time, except when the occasional limb pops out somewhere. Well I have my first appt. w/the midwife in three weeks this Wednesday (@37 weeks) so hopefully she can shed some light on the situation. Heh.

[MoonStarFalling]

I think it can happen anytime and it doesn't mean a thing. This one dropped two months ago. It's engaged now and has been at 0 station or even +1 station for a while.

My first never dropped. He probably would have had I been allowed to labor upright and longer but definitely not before labor.

[BirthInStyle]

I never noticed when my 1st DD dropped. I know at one point my midwife said that she had, but I couldn't tell.

[jakesmama]

Um, my ds "dropped" at around 7:44 am on 6/28/02...which happens to be the time he was born!
Just kidding...but he probably dropped when my water broke the day before.

This babe is still high and I'm glad. I can't breathe very well, sure, but every once in awhile I get banged in the bladder with a head and I am grateful it isn't there all the time!

[BeckaBeth]

With my dd I dropped about 3 weeks before she was born. It was very noticeable to me, I could breath, sleep in a more comfortable position, and most importantly the excruciating pain I had felt from about 12 weeks at the bottom of my left rib was gone.

With this one, I didn't get my hopes up that she would drop but I think she has, the shape of my belly has changed and the rib pain that it seems like I'm going to have to deal with in all my pregnancies is a bit better, still hurts but the sharp knock me on my butt pain has stopped.