Baby Turning Question

kaweegar · July 2015

For those of you whose babies have turned head down already, did you know it had happened? Could you feel it happen or did you just find out when you went for an ultrasound?

My baby was breech at my 24 week ultrasound and I know it is really early, but I worry about baby not turning at all. A co-worker just had her baby and he was still frank breech at 39 weeks when her water broke and she had to have a c-section. I am really not hot on the idea of a c-section.

So I was just wondering if it's possible to feel/know when baby turns. Thanks!

bgriest · July 2015

I had an emergency ultrasound on Monday and our little guy is head down VERY low in the pelvic area. He's so low that they ended up doing an internal ultrasound to look at my cervix.

I never felt him move into that position but I've been feeling a lot of kicks up near the right side of my ribs for a few weeks so I kind of assumed he was head down.

crbpjb · July 2015

I knew when the hiccups felt like they were in my cervix.

But the baby can/will still move positions so early.

briraeh · July 2015

I wonder if my little girl has turned, I have been feeling lots of kicks on the right side of my ribs and the only hiccups I have felt have felt very low

margies2010 · July 2015

I swear I felt an alien ripping out of my stomach, and am pretty sure that was my little man turning. I have an ultrasound at least every two weeks, and that happened after a frank breech u/s and the next u/s he was vertex.

rue:D · July 2015

One baby was head down, the other was transverse at 19w, both were head down at 23w, and at 27w one is head down and one is breech. Baby A's head is also quite low at this time. I didn't notice them changing position, but I'm also a FTM so I don't have anything to compare to.

leighann1 · July 2015

I couldn't tell until we did our ultrasound earlier this week. My doctor says she could still turn and flip, though, so it's too early to tell where they'll be by labor time.

crbpjb · July 2015

Do a lot of docs do a large number of ultrasounds? I get two total unless something goes wrong. To clarify, I am not at all upset about this, although when the doctors tell you they seem to brace for anger. I just had the 20 week and now we wait to see the live and in person version.

leighann1 · July 2015

crbpjb said:

Do a lot of docs do a large number of ultrasounds? I get two total unless something goes wrong. To clarify, I am not at all upset about this, although when the doctors tell you they seem to brace for anger. I just had the 20 week and now we wait to see the live and in person version.

I did an elective 3D ultrasound at 27 weeks, otherwise it would have only been the 20-week anatomy scan.

SarahAnne1101 · July 2015

I could tell when my little one turned last weekend. He had been breech since 16 weeks and still was on Friday at my 29 week ultrasound. I kept feeling something weird and seeing his head rock from by belly button back towards my hip. He did that for over an hour and then I felt a huge roll and then it felt like lighting through my pubic bone and crazy pressure on my pelvis for a few minutes. I figured it was him turning, and sure enough on ultrasound Sunday he had flipped.

BBaires · July 2015

I couldn't tell. At my a/s Bebe was breech, but today I went in for measurements because I failed the glucose challenge and Bebe was head down -- albeit with feet swung up by the face. Odd little gumby.

SarahAnne1101 · July 2015

@BBaires - My little one was so folded up when he was breech. The ultrasound tech thought that I was having twins because there were feet behind his head and hands by his rear. It took her a minute or two of scanning to realize he was butt down, and had his feet behind his head. I couldn't figure out how in the world he bent like that.....

zaclina · July 2015

I have not felt any huge turns yet but I think there is a lot of info out there on ways of encouraging baby to turn in utero when you're close to your due date. Id talk to your doctor or a midwife/doula about your options and what is safest for you and baby (e.g. Spinning babies, believe that was mentioned before).

CCasey2015 · July 2015

crbpjb said:
Do a lot of docs do a large number of ultrasounds? I get two total unless something goes wrong. To clarify, I am not at all upset about this, although when the doctors tell you they seem to brace for anger. I just had the 20 week and now we wait to see the live and in person version.

My doc does an US at every appointment & I'm not high risk. But that's the standard practice at the office/hospital that I go to. I thought that was the normal until I got on here & noticed a lot of ladies don't get one every visit.

kaweegar · July 2015

crbpjb said:
Do a lot of docs do a large number of ultrasounds? I get two total unless something goes wrong. To clarify, I am not at all upset about this, although when the doctors tell you they seem to brace for anger. I just had the 20 week and now we wait to see the live and in person version.

My doctor did one at every visit, but I just moved 4 states away so I have to find a new doctor now. Its not a preference of mine, but my previous doctor had been my gyno since I started having to go to one, so if my new doctor may not do any more.

batmom05 · July 2015

It depends how far you are when they turn. I was 34 weeks the first time and there was no question! It was a little terrifying to watch tbh. This one is still breech and the midwife told me time in a swimming pool may coax it to move!

BabyOIsComing · July 2015

At 27 weeks Baby O was breech, but at 29 he was head down. He's wriggling like crazy, but the Dr says she doesn't expect him to go back up (fingers crossed!). When he was breech, though, she said she he had until 34-36 before it became an issue. Until then, he'd have room to move.

millette2015 · July 2015

I can't tell when baby turns, but from ultrasound and my Dr palpating my stomach, had has told me that my baby has changed position every week in the last 3 weeks. You still have time.

waltersmom83 · July 2015

Mine was breech at the 20 week, so we had to go back at 24 weeks and she was still breech. They want yet another ultrasound at 30 weeks to rule out spina bifida. The tech was able to get a look at everything else. In the mean tell my sciatica has gotten better and I see more big movements which leads me to think she's turned. My husband and I think we are going to pass on doing the 30 week since she'll get one at 34 weeks. There's nothing that can be done abt spina bifida now except freak us out! I'm just keeping an open mind about a c section so if it happens, we aren't freaked or upset.

margies2010 · July 2015

crbpjb said:
Do a lot of docs do a large number of ultrasounds? I get two total unless something goes wrong. To clarify, I am not at all upset about this, although when the doctors tell you they seem to brace for anger. I just had the 20 week and now we wait to see the live and in person version.

I'm having to go to a high-risk MFM, and they automatically do either a growth scan or a biophysical profile to watch breathing, movement, flexion and monitor amniotic fluid. I haven't had an u/s at my regular OB since 12 weeks because my MFM does them at their office and my doctor gets to see the report and photos and defers to their expertise. Unfortunately, I do skew the norm because of my conditions.

crbpjb · July 2015

Thanks, ladies! I was just curious. As long as it keeps feeling like baby is hiccuping realllllly low I won't worry about it

momming247 · July 2015

I feel the same way. At an emergency scan (thought there may have been water leakage) they scanned my cervix and saw baby girls butt at 23 weeks. I am now 27 weeks and feel almost almost everything down low. The rare higher movement are like thus but the all day low movement are squirms and everything else. I feel hiccups both high and low and according to most it isn't reliable. I feel twitching low and a riny.movement up high which could be a leg or head. Who knows...but it worries me daily praying she is head down. Appointment nt for another 2 weeks

mandy903 · July 2015

At my scan at 24 weeks my little girl was breech. They told me not to worry until 32 or 35 weeks but of course that didn't stop me. I really don't want a c section. I have another scan on the 12th and am hoping she is head down then and stays that way!

violetgin · July 2015

First, stastically speaking, the majority of babies will turn, it's still pretty early. Here is my experience.

With the hiccups, I only felt them down low with my first and he was breech, probably for the last 10 weeks, maybe longer. I guess he wiggled his little booty when he had them; I had an anterior placenta too, so that might've played a part. I felt what I though was an elbow poking my side high up in my ribs (I could feel it from the outside), and it turned out it was a heel bc he was frank breech. I had been getting chiropractic adjustments by a prenatal pro from about 20w, doing yoga, and started spinning babies once we figured out he was breech a little later on during a cervical check, but he never turned. I'm 26w and am currently carrying frank breech again with an anterior placenta. I'm doing all the things on the spinning babies website, skipping the chiro this time bc it just doesn't work with my schedule. I'm resigned that I just may be anatomically prone to carrying this way.

I get ultrasounds every time in the 3rd tri bc I ended up with really low fluid towards the end last time. We discovered this when I went in for an attempted version, so we a had to ditch that plan. AND I'm "advanced maternal age" - which makes me LOL, why not just say "dang biotch, you old" - at 35, so my doctor would have been doing them anyway.

Again, chances are your baby will be in position when the time comes. If not, roll with it and be thankful modern medicine can ensure our breech babies are born safely.

DeeGreer · July 2015

I plan on asking my doctor on Tuesday at my appointment. I haven't had an ultrasound since my anatomy scan at 18 weeks. Wtf. I'm 30w3d. HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO KNOW!?!?! I get so anxious wondering

h3speris · July 2015

Kiddo has been breech since 20w. Last week I had my phone really low by my crotch playing music and I swear he flipped his little head towards it. I've been feeling kicks exclusively down low until that flip, when I started getting kicks above my belly button near my ribs. He has since flipped back to breech.... Meh. It's still early. I'm 27 weeks now. Try playing music to your vag and see what happens

RainNFyre · July 2015

h3speris said:

Try playing music to your vag and see what happens

I think this is good advice in general, baby or not.

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