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June 2017 Moms
mezalune
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Movements
mezalune
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Can anyone describe the movements you are feeling, particularly if you know for certain that your baby is head down, footling breech, frank breech, etc? My first pregnancy was frank breech all the way and the piece I remember vividly was feeling pressure on one of my hips pretty much constantly. This time I feel more pressure towards my bladder but it also feels like appendages are poking my bladder too, so I'm questioning footling breech. I go in two weeks for an u/s but I am impatiently wanting to know where we "sit" here at 30 weeks!
Re: Movements
This one is head down I believe (as was my second). I feel a lot of pressure on my pelvis and bladder. I can maybe make out her butt on the left side of my stomach and feel kicks to my right. I also feel hiccups down low. I feel like she likes to kick her feet out and her butt out at the same time and I feel pressure/kicks out of both sides at once. It's a weird feeling.
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5/9/09
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My wonderful unique son is in a very weird position and I'm stressing because of it. His head is my left rib and his feet switch from my right hip to feet down. My midwife showed me what to look for with his head and it's very obvious since it's in such a weird spot. It's like a little tennis ball where my waist used to be. I feel lots of movements about 2" above my belly button and I can feel his feet move around too. I'm only 30 weeks, so I'm praying he gets his act together and gets head down soon.
Her butt always stays out in front of my rib cage so I don't feel any compression on my lungs or shortness of breath. My son was the same way.
This one is head down and I can feel rolling movements, but I'm not really sure what body parts I'm feeling where. I have tons of pressure on my cervix and butt. She also gets the hiccups a lot and i feel them in my pelvis.
I haven't had an ultrasound since 20 weeks. I feel almost all the movement In my upper right abdomen. I sometimes feel large lumps toward the middle upper portion of my uterus, above my belly button.
I'm also starting to get the more uncomfortable movements that come with the third tri. Less of the "ahhh how cute, he/she is moving!" and more "WTF is happening!" Anyone else?
DS had been head down for a long time by this point!
DD1 was head down most of the time by this point (29w4d), but this baby is still moving a ton. Sometimes she chills in a breach position and my belly bulges out my sides. It is weird. Other times, she is head down, and puts a lot of pressure on my pelvic area. Most of the time I feel lots of jabs all across my belly and my bladder just might be bruised.
My husband remarked last night how it seems like I've been pregnant for a really long time. Tell me about it lol.
Just happy I'm not a giraffe! Poor things! :-D
@shmarpler I think my baby was using my bladder as punching bag yesterday. I went pee 3 times in 5 minutes.
DD was breech at 26 weeks but had flipped by 36. I had anterior placenta and didn't feel her much in the center of my belly, so I had no idea what was happening until I realized around 34 weeks that the giant mass that seemed to be constantly in my ribs making me uncomfortable was probably her butt. And it was.
I have no idea what this baby is doing either...I suspected up until about a week ago that she was breech, because 90% of the movement I felt was still down really low. But this week I'm feeling movement up higher, and occasionally feeling a mass getting closer to my ribs, so I suspect she has either already flipped or is transverse on her way to going head down right now. Yay. I asked the doctor last week and she said they don't even try to feel for position until 36 weeks, and if they can't determine it on feel alone you have a scan at that appointment. I needed a scan last time, so we'll see how this goes.
I also had a scan at 38 weeks last time, because my blood pressure started to elevate, and I was told that the baby was "just in perfect position!" but then by the time I was in labor a week and a half later she had turned sunny-side-up, so I guess you never really know how it's going to shake out until it's happening. I just really want to avoid a CS this time, so I'm hoping she goes head down and stays there sometime soon.
I've been told at my last 3 appointments that baby is already head down, but I can't really tell what movements are hands vs feet vs whatever else beyond guessing. I feel things in my lower/mid abdomen but haven't felt anything up high like my ribs or anything. Most of the moves that are actually visible through my belly seem to be on the right side, even though I still feel similar on the left.