Baby dropped?

TheHauntedHauswife · April 2016

Anyone else having the baby drop at this stage? (im just about 32 weeks now.)

Baby has definitely dropped, pelvic pain is definitely worse. But definitely nothing that is anything like contractions or anything of the sort. So i think shes just gotten lower. Have any of you felt this? I have the midwife in about 5 days from now, Would you be concerned or wait til the appointment? Obviously a FTM here.

I have SPD and i got to PT twice a week and my PT definitely confirmed baby has dropped somewhat since Tuesday and that my pelvis was a lot worse because of it.

newbabymakes4 · April 2016

No advice, just commiserating. I also think my LO has dropped recently, because my pelvic pain has intensified quite a bit. And when she punches me, I can feel it down at or below my underwear line. I'm just over 31 weeks. This didn't happen with DS, so it's all new to me. I am going to mention it at my next appt in a couple of weeks, but I am not really concerned about it. Just uncomfortable.

TheHauntedHauswife · April 2016

newbabymakes4 Its bizarre, i keep feeling her in my hip bones, which is obviously not possible that shes over there but shes just so low its radiating there. Mine is definitely transverse still, midwife did give me the flipping exercises because i stressed i was concerned about a breech baby so i think I may actually start doing them just to see if i can get her vertical.

CopperLane · April 2016

This sounds right to me. I'm 32 weeks and my ovia app said baby is working on lowering itself down.

As far as the transverse thing goes, do those exercises!!!! Mine likes to mess with me and go transverse, which really feels very uncomfortable. I started
doing exercises to spin him and it has worked every time. I think the longest it took to get him into a more comfortable position was 10 minutes because he was being particularly stubborn that day. The relief of having him "normal" again is amazing! I like to use FTM mom lingo and say that he's stuck, I should stop saying that though because it freaks DH out.

kbequette08 · April 2016

Mine dropped about 3 weeks ago. But he really loves hanging his little feet and legs on the right side of my stomach.

TheHauntedHauswife · April 2016

CopperLane I have a bunch of youtube videos open in the other tabs, Im definitely starting today! I was breech and i am so adamant not to have a breech baby so i will be getting her in the right position!! I just have to!!

CopperLane · April 2016

I'd be adamant about that as well!!! Luckily mine is mostly head down but it freaks me out when he goes transverse this late. I know that it doesn't really matter until we get closer to go time, but as a FTM it's so easy to freak out about.

I'm very serious about getting him in the right position now when he does go sideways. It's probably crazy, but I can't stop!

TheHauntedHauswife · April 2016

CopperLane Is there any specific methods or anything that you are following. Baby has almost always been transvere, she hasnt been head down in many weeks.

CopperLane · April 2016

I'll get on all fours and bend my front arms so my head is touching the floor and my butt is sticking up. I haven't had to do a full inversion from leaning forward off the couch yet.

I I try to do 20 minutes of an all fours position a day to help position him so he doesn't come out sunny side up (anterior placenta) and I noticed it helped him not be transverse one day. So I modified that to where my head is lower and noticed it was may more effective at turning him head down again.

Sydvicious08 · April 2016

You can also find a chiropractor that does the Webster method for turning babies

lolonvive · April 2016

This will possibly be the dumbest question I've asked on the board -- how do I know which way the baby is?? I'm at 30 weeks now. I feel her moving pretty regularly but have no idea how to tell if things have changed directionally, besides for pain in my right ribs....
Am I missing something??

goldie987 · April 2016

lolonvive said:

This will possibly be the dumbest question I've asked on the board -- how do I know which way the baby is?? I'm at 30 weeks now. I feel her moving pretty regularly but have no idea how to tell if things have changed directionally, besides for pain in my right ribs....
Am I missing something??

I actually asked my doctor this at my last appointment. She basically said if you feel kicks higher up, they're likely head down, if you feel kicks lower down theyre not. That being said, I have no idea how my baby is actually laying because I feel simultaneous kicks on my upper right side of my belly and my lower left side of my belly so clearly one of them is not feet, I just have no freaking clue which.

alysemci · April 2016

I can't tell which way the baby is but the doctor told me he was head down from an ultrasound. He also told me the baby is low. I don't think you're supposed to drop until after 36 weeks though so maybe you're just carrying low ?

WinniethePoohsPants · April 2016

At my check up yesterday my midwife was feeling my belly and told me I hadn't dropped yet, I asked her when I would and she said that typically it's not until 36 weeks or later. With my 1st pregnancy, when DS dropped (around 37 weeks) I felt like I had a bowl ball resting on my cervix and it would ache soooo badly.

HighFive16 · April 2016

I never had a clue which direction baby was facing with dd and I am the same this time round. I had a scan the other day and they showed me the head is down but I don't feel like he has 'dropped' as of yet and I am perfectly okay with that for now!
What this post has highlighted to me (as if I needed reminding), is that if the babies are getting ready to come out we are far too close for my comfort!

AmberLiz99 · April 2016

With my first I dropped around 38 weeks (while riding the metro home from work. No one would give me a seat

). It was a drastic difference, with lots more pressure. Sometimes it can seem like they are super low and it's just position.

My my modwife felt around at my appointment Wednesday and she is pretty sure baby is already head down, but at 30 weeks she was checking more out of interest than anything else. It's too early to worry about it for another month or so.

HighFive16 · April 2016

AmberLiz99 said:

With my first I dropped around 38 weeks (while riding the metro home from work. No one would give me a seat ). It was a drastic difference, with lots more pressure. Sometimes it can seem like they are super low and it's just position.

My my modwife felt around at my appointment Wednesday and she is pretty sure baby is already head down, but at 30 weeks she was checking more out of interest than anything else. It's too early to worry about it for another month or so.

Sorry to go off topic, but this used to bug the crap out of me with my last pregnancy. I am sorry but a pregnant person should be given a priority seating especially if you are 38 weeks. One time when I was on the train at 35 weeks it jolted and I fell. No one even helped me and stayed in their seats. People are ridiculous.

CourtJack · April 2016

HighFive16 said:

AmberLiz99 said:

With my first I dropped around 38 weeks (while riding the metro home from work. No one would give me a seat ). It was a drastic difference, with lots more pressure. Sometimes it can seem like they are super low and it's just position.

My my modwife felt around at my appointment Wednesday and she is pretty sure baby is already head down, but at 30 weeks she was checking more out of interest than anything else. It's too early to worry about it for another month or so.

Sorry to go off topic, but this used to bug the crap out of me with my last pregnancy. I am sorry but a pregnant person should be given a priority seating especially if you are 38 weeks. One time when I was on the train at 35 weeks it jolted and I fell. No one even helped me and stayed in their seats. People are ridiculous.

Yep. Agree. I take the bus every day and have been offered a seat a total of one time. Public transit makes people jerks.

HBamama2B · April 2016

HighFive16 said:

AmberLiz99 said:

With my first I dropped around 38 weeks (while riding the metro home from work. No one would give me a seat ). It was a drastic difference, with lots more pressure. Sometimes it can seem like they are super low and it's just position.

My my modwife felt around at my appointment Wednesday and she is pretty sure baby is already head down, but at 30 weeks she was checking more out of interest than anything else. It's too early to worry about it for another month or so.

Sorry to go off topic, but this used to bug the crap out of me with my last pregnancy. I am sorry but a pregnant person should be given a priority seating especially if you are 38 weeks. One time when I was on the train at 35 weeks it jolted and I fell. No one even helped me and stayed in their seats. People are ridiculous.

A man had the gall this morning to get frustrated Bc my belly was blocking his view of the phone. (Like I could do anything about it with people wedged behind and beside me.) Excuse me?! If you don't like it, stand TF up.

AmberLiz99 · April 2016

I commuted every day while pregnant with my first. I had to stand a LOT! The very few times I was offered a seat it was almost always from either another woman, a construction worker, or teenage boy. Just a weird random observation.

Rosehip15 · April 2016

HighFive16 said:

Sorry to go off topic, but this used to bug the crap out of me with my last pregnancy. I am sorry but a pregnant person should be given a priority seating especially if you are 38 weeks. One time when I was on the train at 35 weeks it jolted and I fell. No one even helped me and stayed in their seats. People are ridiculous.

That is atrocious. I'm so sorry.

TheHauntedHauswife · April 2016

Wow im so glad i dont commute, i have noticed that people have actually been more rude to me since ive been pregnant, whats the deal with that! They hold doors so much less and i have had multiple people almost walk into, hit thier cart into, or just otherwise be totally inconsiderate of my belly.

About the place they are, I dont know, im a FTM and i have known where she was every since i could feel her. I just press around on my belly and try to get a sense where she is, and then compare that with where the movement is. I have been correct the entire pregnancy (i have had the midwife check my assumptions mutliple times). I dont know why i am able to tell, i just am. No one showed me or anything, I just kind of got a sense for it. and have maintained it. She was on my left side, up and down for quite a while and then a few weeks back she slid down and went transverse and has remained transverse ever since. she used to just be transverse and higher, but now shes transverse and lower. I know she is lower because the top of my belly (under my boobs) is no longer feeling like a stuffed turkey and its easier to breathe, while my hip bones and pelvis are hurting more than normal, the spot near my underwear line is much harder and more full feeling and i think i actually feel some more pressure on my cervix, or atleast inside.

lolonvive · April 2016

Wow and people have the misconception that New Yorkers are rude! I virtually ALWAYS get offered a seat on the subway, and people smile at me, ask me questions, and 'god bless' me.The only time I don't get a seat is if I get on the train in and it's very crowded and get stuck by the door where seated people can't see me. And even then ppl always make room for me to have a place to hold on to. I feel super lucky!
@rosehip15 do you have a different experience??

CopperLane · April 2016

My midwife has started feeling for head down since 28 weeks. She showed me how to feel where his back is and what his butt feels like. He constantly has his butt against the bottom of my ribs, so it's pretty easy to tell where he is. But that being said, I don't have much in between my skin and uterus so it's easy to feel for certain parts (this makes me sound way underweight, but I've had a healthy weight gain, it just went other places). If he goes sideways it feels like I'm being stretched out all weird and I can see a general outline of him laying sideways.

I had to ask about his position because I get kicks all over and he sticks his back out a lot. I'm too curious to know where he is and what he's doing at all times so she took the time to teach me how to palpitate for what he's up to. And this is why I love her!

peregrinefalconx · April 2016

www.spinningbabies.com

This site has a lot of info in it.

Bear14+ · April 2016

I feel hiccups super low...that's how I've always judged where baby is. I can feel her feet in my ribs too. She hasn't dropped yet, but I'm sure it's coming anytime because she's getting lower and lower.

Tawny87 · April 2016

I dropped a few weeks ago, not fully though. 32 weeks Monday.

PBear93 · April 2016

I never dropped with my daughter and was induced at close to 41 weeks. Long story short, we figured out she never dropped because the cord was wrapped around her neck and she couldn't get any lower than she was.

26pointrunningfor2 · April 2016

I'm 32 weeks, and while I don't know if I've dropped, my ultrasound yesterday was hilarious. My kid has been head down the whole pregnancy (I've had 5 ultrasounds confirming that), and his poor little face was smooshed up against my uterine wall in every 3D image. Like face pressed to glass. It's silly in ultrasounds, but sadly, he likes to smoosh that face against my bladder, which I do not enjoy

newbabymakes4 · April 2016

TheHauntedHauswife said:

newbabymakes4 Its bizarre, i keep feeling her in my hip bones, which is obviously not possible that shes over there but shes just so low its radiating there. Mine is definitely transverse still, midwife did give me the flipping exercises because i stressed i was concerned about a breech baby so i think I may actually start doing them just to see if i can get her vertical.

Someone recommended the website spinning babies to me when I was trying to flip LO a month ago (because of sciatica). Is that what your midwife suggested? My mom sent me a link that says doing the happy baby yoga pose should help open up the hips and relieve some of the discomfort. I hope you start feeling better soon!

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