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Anyone's midwife or OB have trouble determining position of baby?

wheelsonthebuswheelsonthebus member
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My last few appointments, my midwife has been completely baffled as to what position the baby was in. Two weeks ago she said breech. Yesterday I went in for my 34 week appointment and she said that she thinks the baby is still breech. She was completely confused though so she asked another midwife to come in. The other midwife has been a midwife since the early 70's. She was also confused, but listend "the old fashioned way" and thought the baby was actually head down since she could only hear the heart beat in the lower right side of my stomach. They asked if I wanted them to do an internal to make sure and I said to go for it. The older midwife said she for sure feels a head by my cervix and that she has never had a baby that was so hard to determine. Apparently my LO has a hard bottom! They said it's pretty rare to have such a hard time finding position. Anyone else have trouble? I wonder what factors make it harder to figure out?

In the end, I'm glad my baby is head down! :-)

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Re: Anyone's midwife or OB have trouble determining position of baby?

  • BonidiebabeBonidiebabe

    A few apt's ago we saw a newer Mw that could not tell. She said the baby was head down, but I told her I did not agree based on his movements. She consulted with a much more seasoned MW that knew right away he was breech. We ended up having an US because if he was still breech we were going to schedule a version.

    If you are not confident with their guesses I would go for the US. That way you would be able to try different spinning techniques now before the baby gets too big.

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  • tokenhosertokenhoser member
    My sister's doctor told her the baby was head down... but she delivered a breech baby shortly after that! So I guess sometimes it's harder than others to know.
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  • Temp76535187505890Temp76535187505890
    I was told by a midwife that my son's head was hanging out on my right side but at my next appointment an OB was like "uh, that's not his head, that's one of your fibroids." Guess the midwife thought one of my very large fibroids (they get around the size of softballs during pregnancy) was his head. The OB did a quick ultresound to be 100% sure and sure enough, that wasn't his head but thankfully he was head down. 
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  • MycrimsonheartMycrimsonheart
    My last appointment the MW guessed he was head down (as did I). She asked if I had been in shape with before the baby and while I wasn't a gym rat I still for some reason had a good set of abs when I got pregnant. She said the tone of your stomach muscles can sometimes make it hard to determine where baby is. Maybe you just had some kick a$$ abs!
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