Why am I worrying about baby's position so much?

[LoveChild421]

I'm not a worrier and haven't had a moment of worry this whole pregnancy (other than finances) but now I find myself thinking "is he head down?" "is he ever going to go anterior?" often. He has been head down but always ROT and lately he's lying completely transverse- at my last appt she said he was perfectly transverse. With ds he was posterior at this point (33 weeks) but I had the Webster technique done twice and he stayed anterior from that point on. I have an appt with a chiro to get the Webster done on the 27th of Dec. I'm hoping that will urge this one to get into position. I know logically he has plenty of time to turn and get into position, I don't know why I keep thinking about it. It seems like he's much bigger than ds1 and that kind of worries me too...I'm not scared to birth a big baby, just worried that maybe his head is so big he won't engage in my pelvis or something...

Calm me down mamas! Psychoanalyze me! Why am I worrying about this? I'm going to try to make a point of it to not think about his position today. I really believe focusing on things makes them worse so I definately do NOT want to do that!

[Justmee]

Try to calm down. This little bugger likes to hang out transverse also. My friend (a doula / midwife) told me that going on all fours like a doggie opens the pelvis and is particually successfull with babes who like to hang transvers. It certainly couldn't hurt to try and as she pointed out to me, the kids will get a kick out of mommy crawling around on the floor.

Rivka was breech until almost 39 weeks. She turned at some point between my 38 & 39 week appointments (I couldnt' tell but the dr. could tell by feeling) and was born vertex, at 39 weeks 3 days.

[flapjack]

Anecdotally (I started a thread down in B and B about this too) it seems that longer babies are less likely to drop neatly in position because they need that extra space to accommodate their length. Skye and Alex were both wandering around all over the place at 36 and 37 weeks, and they were 23 and 24" respectively. Oh, and Skye was only 8lb 5, so not a big baby at all...
At the risk of being rude, you may not have the muscle definition necessary to hold a baby in an anterior position for weeks at a time these days, either. At some point between pregnancies 1 and 90, your muscles tend to surrender.

[smokeylo]

I am going through the exact same thing! I'm totally obsessing over position. My baby is still moving around a lot (head is def. not engaged) -- although he is usually head down, he seems to be all over the place (oblique, transverse, vertex). Like you I logically know he has plenty of time to settle in (I'm only 31w), but I am obsessing anyway. And I know that once he does engage and settle into vertex, I will then obsess over anterior/posterior basically until he comes out.

[Dea]

I've been wondering a lot where mine is. I don't know where she is, but I can only feel her on my left side, sometimes on the right and never high, so I'm worried that she's transverse. I do a lot of pelvic rocks to try to encourage her head down, and I've been assured that there's lots of time.

[Gunter]

my babe is posterior right now, too.

let's just remember that baby's are born posterior all the time. at that, we are not in labor, yet.

i totally understand though. it's on my mind a lot, too. esp. b/c i feel the babe moving so much!

[Poppy Bee]

I'm having a vbac this time... my last baby was breech. You can bet your ass i'm worried about position, too!

As long as I can feel back on the left side and foot-ish movement high on the right, I'm okay. But have you looked at Spinningbabies.com yet? There are lots of time-killing exercises to help get baby into position. They're good for you, too.

[LoveChild421]

thanks mamas! Glad I'm not alone! I have been doing the exercises on spinningbabies.com and I finally made it to Walmart to get a birthball to sit on instead of the regular computer chair. I still feel like he is doing a lot of shifting and its hard for me to make out exactly what's going on because my stomach feels hard all over.

it seems that longer babies are less likely to drop neatly in position because they need that extra space to accommodate their length.

I'm thinking that could be the case with this one. I was a long baby and dp was a long baby (24 inches!) so I think this one could be too. Ds was 20 inches but had a placental defect and a very small placenta so I easily could be growing a bigger baby this time if the placenta is healthy.