How do you know?

ippichic · March 2013

I see a lot of posts from you mamas who know the position of your baby. How do you know this? Are you guessing? Are you having ultrasounds every week? Can your doctor tell somehow?

I have absolutely no clue how this baby is positioned. I haven't had an ultrasound since the anatomy scan at 18 1/2 weeks. If I feel my belly there are hard parts in different places every day, so I can't tell if it's a rump or a head or a foot.

mommy0411 · March 2013

My little guy hasn't moved position in a really long time. I am also a pretty small person so its easy to feel his butt and back across my stomach

It was the same with my first DS.

KtrynReu · March 2013

I had a 3D ultrasound at 31 weeks. All the movement I've felt has stayed pretty much in the same area. And, the baby's heartbeat has stayed in the same region too.

MaggieMooMom · March 2013

I had a growth u/s this weekend at 33 weeks and that's when I was told baby is head down.

Blueyed228 · March 2013

I know from weekly ultrasounds.

SandiaPinaMama · March 2013

Weekly US, NSTs, my MW palpating, and my own feel of what's what.

eco+ri · March 2013

The doctor touches and feels and then tells me.

trmptr18 · March 2013

Hiccups are low and the doc said she is head down. Plus I can feel all her limbs on my left side and a little booty on the right.

GraceUponGrace09 · April 2013

Your Dr can tell by feeling. My LO is head down and kinda off to the right side. I had no idea until my last appt and once my MW told me, I could totally tell and now I'm pretty sure I would know if it changed positions. I don't have any more ultra sounds

AllieAGame · April 2013

Ultrasounds here (we get one at every appointment- my doctor just likes to do them!). But also, he can feel the positon just by feeling around externally.

Lolalipsy · April 2013

My MW told me. She's been routinely checking baby's position externally and fundal height and she notes whether she feels the baby move as well.

We spent weeks talking to what was essentially her bum not her head. Tbh I still can't tell eve

BekW2009 · April 2013

I have a weekly ultrasound, but the doctor usually knows from feeling. Also, when they start cervical checks they can feel the head down there sometimes.

MotherMayEye · April 2013

I felt hiccups low, like her shoulders were down. Then I got my doppler out and found the heartbeat well below my belly button. So, I am pretty sure my LO has finally turned into a vertex position.

CRLSMC2011 · April 2013

My MW felt my belly and told me. Also, there is a very clear foot on my left side and a ball on my right (butt) and what feels like a boulder down above my pelvis (head). So I guessed and she confirmed. But the foot I can definitely feel

Plove13 · April 2013

My dr goes by feel. I've tried myself but I can't usually differentiate between the head and bum

burkems · April 2013

Midwife told me. Otherwise I would have no clue!

MommaG123 · April 2013

I have two u/s a week to monitor baby's health so that is how I know for sure but I can tell in a change in pressure on my vagina/cervix when baby was still flipping between head down and head up.

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