Can you tell baby's body parts?

countdowntolockdown · January 2012

Good morning ladies!

I'm just wondering if any of us can tell where certain baby body parts are chillaxin' in our wombs. I THINK I can feel little feet kicking my upper right side. It's even kind of tender over there. So that would mean the baby is transverse and the head is turning down?...OR it's little hands punching my upper right side. Can't wait for the u/s next Friday!

What can you tell?

mamabear0813 · January 2012

As it gets farther along it becomes more obvious. Right now I'm PRETTY sure I can tell the difference between feet and hands when she's moving, but I can't tell, yet, how she is sitting when she's not being active.

Towards the end with DS I could feel his little butt when he was just chilling out and asleep. It's crazy how big they get in there! LOL

adamstodrake · January 2012

I assumed she was head down, so I was pretty sure which was hand or feet when I was getting beat on :0) Yesterday at our OB appt she kept swatting the doppler with either a hand or shoulder, so I was right about her being head down. I loved with DS when I knew exactly what part was which. Usually I could find his back and follow it to either his butt or head and knew if it was arms or legs going at it in there. That wasn't until closer to 32 or so weeks though I think.

JFH2010 · January 2012

I'm excited for this! Right now I think I know where his feet are, but I'm not sure. Last night my belly was totally lopsided and I could feel his general body on one side, but not specific body parts. But even that was cool. It was like, THERE he is! Right there! Yesterday was the first time I knew his exact location.

dixee.deluxe · January 2012

Nope. I could never tell with DD either. Heads and butts feel the same. Hands and feet feel the same.

shouldbworkin · January 2012

RIght now I can only really tell where the head is. This LO is fond of sticking it out right under my ribs and it's undeniably a little round skull that I'm feeling. After that I can pretty much guess where the hands and feet are moving. But, as I get further along (when baby is head down) it will be easier to tell elbows and knees from each other.

LDW80 · January 2012

dixee.deluxe:
Nope. I could never tell with DD either. Heads and butts feel the same. Hands and feet feel the same.

This! I had no clue. Even when the dr. told me "this is where her butt is" it still felt like it could have been the head. I guess I realized she was head down because I felt the hiccups in the crotch area.

Wildlandwife · January 2012

All I can really tell right now is his butt. He'll poke it out on the right side every now and then and it's hard as a rock.

SoonToBeMrsDTS · January 2012

This baby likes to hang out transverse (head on my left side, feet on the right) so I can usually tell what's what just based on the baby's position. It's hard to tell the difference between hand/feet elbows/knees at this stage but it's easier once you get further along.

When I was 35w with DD I told the dr. that she was breech because I could feel her head up by my ribs. She kept saying "oh i'm sure that's just the butt, 95% of babies are head down by now." Low and behold I had an u/s and she was breech! She flipped to head down, back to breech and then finally back to head down at 37w.

krystalxyz · January 2012

Sometimes I can. I think he likes to hang out on my left side, head down and facing my spine, and then push out with all his strength because he will make me look all lumpy. Depending on if he is kicking or tickling (what I think it feels like when his hands are moving) I can tell where his head or butt is. Sometimes there is a little hard spot that I know is either is foot or knee that I can poke and move sideways. Poor kid, all I do is bug him already!

xproudxnerdx · January 2012

I know baby is upside down, so I can feel when his little butt is chilling on one side. Presumably the little lumps are his knees and feet.

ninjabridemom · January 2012

Sometimes it's easy to tell -- like last night, Leftie was pushing his foot so hard against my belly button area (the thinnest part of me) that I could feel clearly it was a foot.

Other times it'd hard. I actually have no idea how Rightie is situated right now b/c he's kind of all over the place. He also get bopped by his brother sometimes and moves hard.

Sclines2595 · January 2012

I don't have a clue what I'm feeling!! I always get this hard rounded shape to the left of my belly button -- I dont know if it is a butt or a head???

Tambcat · January 2012

Sometimes I think I can tell which side is the feet and which is the head. I can tell where her body is now by feeling my stomach and sometimes just by looking.

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