How do I know what position my baby is inside of me, and where will I feel movement?
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- You wanted to know how you can tell what position your baby is inside of you. And ultimately, you can only tell this for sure by having an ultrasound done. An ultrasonographer or a trained doctor can look and see what position the baby is actually in. The position we want them to be in is the vertex position, and that is where the baby is head down in your pelvis. Now, a baby can also be breech, or head up with feet down, foot down, or bum down.
So another question you had was where would you feel movement based on the baby's position? And if you imagine the baby being head down, they're in the fetal position, if they're laying in your belly like this, then you're likely to feel lots of kicks and punches on the side the baby isn't sitting in, because the side that they are sitting on will have the head down low, and the backbone, and the bum on top. And you'll also feel some shifts and movements in the bottom of your belly. If your baby is in the breech position, the movement may feel a little bit different, because the baby's arms and legs are up top.
So around 28 weeks, 25% of babies are breech. At 32 weeks, only 7-14% are breech. And by full-term (or 37 weeks), only 3% are breech, meaning 97% of babies have figured out that they need to be head down. So it's not cost-effective to ultrasound everyone and see what position the baby is in. In the latter end of the 3rd trimester, your doctor will look for position when they're checking you at your appointments, and they can do this a few different ways. One is called Leopold's maneuver, where they feel the woman's belly, and they try to feel for the head, and the backbone, and the bum, and get a sense for how the baby is oriented. When we check your cervix, we can also feel for a head (if you're dilated at all) and get a sense for what position the baby is in. If there's any questions about it, then of course the doctor will ultrasound to determine if the baby is indeed breech or not.
Now, a lot of women also want to know, if my baby is head down at the end, are they likely to stay? And it depends on what baby this is for you. If it's your first, then it's likely. But if you've had babies before, the uterus is more stretchy, and of course, that's defining the space your baby can move around in. So if it's a little more stretchy, the baby will have more ability to move around and flip. So a baby could possibly be vertex at 37 weeks, breech at 38 weeks, vertex again at 39 weeks - I've seen that a lot in practice over the years as a Labor & Delivery nurse. There are many other factors that go into the position a baby will be in. The umbilical cord, the placenta location, and also the shape of the woman's uterus will determine how they're lying. A baby can actually also be side-lying. That's called transverse position.
Now, if your baby is breech at the end of pregnancy, what can be done about that? There's a lot of different things out there that you might read about that you can try in order to see if your baby will flip spontaneously, but there's not really any science behind that. I've heard putting a bag of cold peas on your belly to scare the baby into the head down position, but you have to remember, there's a lot of layers between your skin and the baby, so they're not really feeling that. Some people have talked about acupuncture or standing on their heads. I definitely don't recommend standing on your head, because that's a hazard for anyone who's not pregnant, but especially when you're pregnant and your center of gravity has shifted.
Talk with your doctor about it, and if they've determined that your baby is in the breech position, they'll talk to you about the plan for delivery. In some cases, the doctor determines that an external cephalic version (or ECV) might be appropriate for the woman, as long as the placenta is in a good location, the umbilical cord is not around the baby's neck, there's enough fluid surround the baby. They might say, "Let's try to rotate the baby." So we bring you into the hospital setting, goo up your belly, and from the outside, the doctor tries to manipulate the baby into the head down position. So if your doctor talks to you about that, then you can ask them more specific questions and decide if it's something that you would like to try.
In the end, if your baby is still breech when it's time for delivery, then your doctor will recommend a C-section, because complications can arise by delivering a baby vaginally that is breech. If you have more questions for me in the future, feel free to ask them on our Facebook page at / intermountainmoms , and recommend us to your friends and family too.
WOW! This is so helpful and informative. I am 25 weeks pregnant with my first child and my baby kicks me quite a bit towards the pelvis. I am due for my next sonography appointment on 29th of February, 2020 and I am hoping for the best. At the age of 39 to be pregnant with the first baby is quite exciting as much as makes me nervous too. Please do keep me in your prayers and your thoughts for a healthy pregnancy and a safe delivery. Thanks!
Hopefully you will have a safe delivery, good luck.
@@habibashaikh1317 yes I had a baby boy on 28th May, 2020
K know nnnjbbv vv
Baby and i are birthday mates…All the best Mama
@@Nightwing2022 Wow, cool!
I’m 28 weeks and my doctor just checked by feeling my belly (super uncomfortable) and said she was head down. I’ve felt most movement lower in my belly. A few times higher up. I definitely feel her head down there Pushing on my bladder. It’s a different feeling from being kicked in the bladder. A lot more pressure and lasts longer than that quick punch to it.
Please visit Spinning Babies for more information (with research behind it) before you resign yourself to a C-section. "Standing on your head" is not the recommended position, but forward leaning inversion has solid research behind it. Just because it doesn't involve a hospital doesn't mean it's ineffective.
The different positions seems to be how a lot of babies who are breech once labor begins actually flip to the correct position by the time the mother pushes. This lady gives a lot of biased advice, she seems to know only of what the hospital accountants want the patients to know, I hate medical professionals like that, like did you not go into medicine to help people? Stop kissing up to thieves.
Sometimes baby is breech for a reason doctors can't see until afterwards. I tried spinning babies, I was doing handstands in the swimming pool, even wormwood on my big toe. I did everything except version technique. Had a c section, there was a fibroid preventing my baby from turning. It is sometimes unavoidable so yes, try everything you can but don't beat yourself up because not everything is in our control ❤
@@Moonlightlove31 Agreed. The problem is the belief that you cannot have a breech vaginal delivery. The mandatory c-section policy is to try and avoid having their butts sued. I know, I've asked them.
She keeps saying “talk to your doctor”. So guys really TALK TO YOUR DOCTOR
she provides the information so that we can be smarter when we come to see our doc, we can ask what she mentioned and our doc didn’t say vice versa.
That’s what our ancestors hollered across the jungle 🤣
I'm keep trying to figure that out if she want us to talk to someone eles insted of anwsering the question why post the video
You are soooo resourceful!! Thank you for sharing!
I’m 28 weeks, and I feel movement eeevvveerrryyyywhere. Left, right, top of stomach, close to pelvis. I guess he likes to keep his momma guessing 🤷🏻♀️😂
Same girl
Same here.. 35weeks pregnant..😄
Same ! That's why I clicked on this video
32 weeks I feel same too😂
Same here..I'm in my 36 week
30 weeks and I have no idea.. i feel movements down low a lot still but also up top a lot.
And sometimes in the middle 😂
Yes I have a question, can you be my L&D nurse when I give birth? Your so amazing.
u r sooo pretty as well... with loads n loads of info...
I love the way how you talk. GOD Bless....
I was head down up until about two weeks before my due date, then I breached myself in one night and put my poor mother through hell. She went to the doctor the next day who told my mom if he hadn't seen her last week he never would've believed I did what I did (I was also her first child). Needless to say they scheduled the c-section for my due date and, well, here I am =D
Almost 28 weeks here! I feel baby kicking mostly on the Right side of my belly!
I'm 30 weeks right now and feel mostly on my right side as well? Was your baby head down when you could feel it on the right side? Hope everything went well for you@
Your are having boy or a girl??
I am 35 weeks pregnant, I can feel the movement in right side only,in previous scanning baby was in breech
same here. ultra said my baby is in transverse lie position. hope for good in next days....
I’m 25 weeks and 4 days pregnant and my baby has been moving all night so I feel sleep deprived today.😩 I’m happy he’s healthy and moving but would prefer him to move more during the day and sleep with me at night.😊 Thanks for sharing this informative video! ❤️
This is my current situation am 28 weeks 😔 can't sleep because my baby has been moving left, right and at the upper abdomen all night 😢
Great information! Thank you ❤️🙏🏿!
This is soo helpful as a first time mother
I feel all movement at 27 weeks down low and off slightly to the sides where I had Round ligament pain
29 weeks next Wednesday and my baby head was down from 26 weeks and went for my 28 weeks scan and she was head down still . This is my number 4 baby God whiling
Tks for sharing !
If I were pregnant, I would give birth to a breech baby vaginally and try to get the baby rotated if it is transverse and if that doesn't work and the baby is still transverse during labor, I would get a C section. But C section for breech when vaginal birth in the hands and knees position can work just as well(In fact I have heard this recommended for breech babies instead of the prone position to avoid a c section(that is laying down like you usually do in a hospital bed is not recommended if the baby is breech))
I watched a series called "Virgini River" the actress Mel actual made a woman to give birth while it was in breech position. I really wondered if it was possible or it only happens in a movie🥺
I managed it and I really wish doctors would stop going straight to recommending sections.
I'm 33 weeks pregnant and feel pressure in in pelvic or lower belly. can you tell how the baby is positioned???
very high level professional
I'm 31 wks, and all I feel is still flutter-like movements. It's tickles alot, if I can stay like this the reminder of my pregnancy, I'd be very delighted.
when my aunt went into labor with her first he was breech and the doctor was getting ready to do a c-section but he flipped before they could do anything
Shea Goff 😂😂 funny he like nope . I just made five weeks I'm so ready to find out what I'm having. I'm praying for a girl lol
alexis frierson aww I hope you get a girl!!! I'm only sixteen but I would love to have a little girl someday❤️
me 2 I definitely want a baby girl I'm due in January 4th. and good grads to you as well.
alexis frierson Thank you!!!! Do you have like an instagram or anything?
Shea Goff yes I do I know by December I'm deleting a bunch of apps thats on my phone I gotta record my delivery and get lots of pictures this my first baby
I'm 28 weeks pregnant and I've been feeling kicks near my ribs for quite sometime now so I wanted to know if you knew where the baby was positioned I'm a first time mommy as well thank you so much hope to hear from you soon
Same, on my left side
So beautiful😍
very informative,,thank u.I'm also 5 months pregnant lady n doctor said that my baby is breech
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Im 8 months pregnant & i only feel movement under my belly button / lower abdomen... Is she breach?
Breech is normal. It’s a shame so many women are pressured into a c section for no reason
I'm 31 weeks I feel kicks all over my belly towards the top at the bottom hitting my bladder on the sides. I have no idea what position he's in but I think he's doing karate in there 😅
I was pregnant with right side on my first pregnancy,and I feel all new type of pain in righteous side,I have a boy,,,
do u feel right side movements in 6 month
Omg sooooo beautiful
Since my pregnant was twenty weeks my doctor told me that my baby head is down and I fell kicks side of my stomach thank for sharing this video
normal delivery is possible if total 9 months of bed rest due to incompetant cervices&cerlage procedure?
I'm 25 weeks and my baby is already head down. Hope it's okay
Am feeling too much pain in my pelvic area and back pain.is my baby head down?
I’m 34 weeks and baby is still breech. How likely is it that they will be this way at birth ?
So nice... Doctor..... I love this video.. Get lots of knowledge. Thanks for this nice vedio
I’m 38 weeks and I only feel movement sideways the top of my stomach is not filled out or the bottom
Ultrasound is not the only way to tell position. I was able to learn what the head felt vs the the butt so I could tell you what position my baby was in
Mary Beslin Ultrasound is the only way to be absolutely sure.
Your right
I only feel movement on my lower belly and i am 21 weeks and 5 days pregnant
My baby kept flipping around and icing my stomach where the head was at helped her flip.
I'm 36 weeks and my baby still breach. Second baby. Confident he will flip but we have a csection lined up incase
Ashley Bellerose hey, what was your outcome? :)
You didn't talk about transverse situation at all you just mention it and I think it should be more to say about it
It will is the same procedure and protocol as the breech position. Theres not much more to be said.
@@moneymagnet7345 is not the same as breech 🙄 there s a huge difference between them
@@moneymagnet7345 people need to know that that's why I told her she should've said more about it
@@meelauramee I did not say breech and transverse are the same thing - I hold a BA Midwifery degree by the way*. I stated that the procedure and protocol is treated the same such as ECV or a C-section. Transverse hold more serious risks but the likelyhood is any serious fatalities is less than 1%.
Just 22weeks but my baby shows up as a breech, but the doctor told me to give it time it would change position
My baby kicks like in the center of my stomach what position could this be 😭
wat was the position of ur baby then??im feeling the same and im 34weeks
Is it center, up high or down lower? Head-down will likely give you kicks higher up... you want to try to feel the big, hard, round bump that is the head.
@@srm4christ yea..feeling the kick just abv my bellybutton n on my extreme left side..so my baby's head is down now
@@manasahegde2617 hooray!
I'm 22 weeks pregnant and i had my ultrasound last week. Which is my baby is in breech position. And i feel a lot of kicks in my bladder but these past few days i feel some kicks beside my belly button an sometimes on the other side. Does my baby turn its head down?
what about if the baby is transverse at 30 weeks?
(S)he has 10-ish weeks to rotate a mere 90 degrees! I understand your nerves, but I'm concerned that you didn't absorb the info presented in the video. Baby can rotate 180 degrees from week to week, possibly till the end of the third trimester. Hope you spoke to your *physician* for reassurance. It would be great if you could give an update about how your L&D went! Congrats.
I feel alot movement side to side and kicks in my ribs.. is he head down?
Me too
joanna Garcia kind of obvious the baby would’ve head down if u felt kicks in your ribs
Savvy Maharaj lol
Savvy Maharaj not really. I feel them in my ribs and baby is breech.
I'm 24 week Pregnant my scan report is intrauterine foetus in cephalic presentation... if there any problem...pls reply me as soon as possible
Sirisha sannaila,did u have your baby ? Am also facing the same my dia pliz reply me
I am 30weeks I don't know if my baby is down
My first pregnancy was twins , I was 32 weeks and they were both head down , and then one flipped all the way around ! It was painful. 😑
I wish you could be my nurse
Thanks for sharing my baby is breech i m on my 3rd trimester already😘😘
habibty grace did it turn?
@@Keepinitreal55 all is ok my baby turn normal delivery. But i have to be induced on my duedate as my cervix doesn't dilate and it the worst pained i ever experienced.. thanks God finally it over.
I'm currently 29 weeks and 4 days and my baby is Breech I am worried the baby won't turn
How to knowWhich position in baby head down
Just a question I just had my baby and now there’s a ball in my stomach that movies around what would that be ?
So plz tell me what to do baby head down? My delivery date is 25/05/2018 but know baby is not down pls tell me
Please pry for me to have healthy and safe baby
my baby was head down a few weeks ago but I feel like he is sideways or something now. it hurts so bad. my sides are killing me
hii madam very good morning
Madam I am pragnent last month was 8th month my baby was in Head down position
but this month I went to check up Dr.said baby is breech I am in lots of stars what to do ? how can this happen to me only ?.
Madam my first baby is Normal born
sekend baby was also breech he got a Clubfoot problem I was very sad for my son's pain
which he have undergone
Madam i am Scared what to do now ? if my this baby also will have physical problem so I will me mad . please help me Ma'am tell me how to sit and should I do walkiby a all......
Is there any exercise for shift the breach position to vertex
Salah
How about transverse baby position?
When baby start poistioning Bec I go for Nt scan they said now baby poistioning is not clear
Am 28 weeks I don't no d baby gender as yet
im 26 weeks and feel my baby on both sides. could that mean he lies horizontally?
noelle101 Mine too !! But she is already upside down . It's crazy! Maybe because they are in a small space ? 😯
Same here
Am 21weeks but fell movement down
my baby is breach but i feel hos kicks in my pelvic area
my baby is cpehlic shape so is it ok to normal dilvry at 33wks????
Am 24 weeks 1 day and my baby breech at 20 weeks
I’m 27 weeks my sons currently breech...
my baby is transverse lie im 34 weeks pregnant im so worried and a little bit stress 😣😣😣
Joan Woo my baby was transverse lie from 27 to 35 1/2 weeks. I went in for ultrasound and he was transverse lie and 2 days later had to go back for another ultrasound and he was finally head down. I'm now 37 weeks now and he's still head down, so try not to stress too much.
Kassi Bartlett
that's great news what exercise did you do?
Joan Woo he turned on his own.
33wks still my baby's head is on my right tummy:( trying many ways to turn his head down
Joan Woo try putting ice pack where ur baby's head, then put ur phone below ur belly and turn on soothing music.
37 weeks and my baby is transverse (sideways). We scheduled a c-section... The doctor said "It doesn't matter, I'll get her out!"...lol
Ur so beautiful
My baby moves around a lot since 32 weeks. I'm almost 37. She tends to shift around some nights and it's really painful. She switches from transverse to up or down, and the other day my OB was pretty sure she is breech. Waiting on an ultrasound, but soonest available is over 2 weeks away and I'm afraid she'll be born before then.
Hi how did you go? Did baby turn head down in the end?
@@tahneewalshamofficial At the advice of my Midwife, I paid out of pocket to get an ultrasound sooner. It revealed my baby was transverse breech (butt down, head & feet up). I did some inverted positions to get her to flip and also saw a chiropractor. We ultimately got her head down, but found out after delivery that her umbilical cord was only 9 inches long. It presented some difficulties for the delivery and is likely why she had such a hard time flipping on her own. All of the painful movement I felt at night was likely her attempting to flip, but not successfully 🙃
My placenta is in posterior position and my baby is breech is it possible to change my baby's position?????
I'm also same situation reply any answer
I knew the baby was transverse and I was watching videos to flip the baby
I have tears in my eyes as I'm losing hope to be able to deliver vaginally
My placenta is low-lying
I don't want c section scar on my belly😥😭
I'm feel a lot of movement At the top of my belly by my breast . Does that mean he face down . It almost feels like it's his feet up there
Amanda Portes then he may be in cephalic posterior position..
Mine is 37 weeks and he's vertex so he's in the correct position but I feel the most movement where his feet are tucked up by my breast
I used to feel my babies feet shoving into my ribs he loved rubbing his feet against my rib it felt horrible but now at 6m he still loves rubbing his feet on things
How powerful are the movements up top? I've actually felt movement simultaneously at the top right and bottom left, my baby was definitely head down my not in my pelvis, the much stronger movement I have was in the top right. When baby kicks her feet sometimes its so powerful it actually moves things off of me, you can easily see the movement even with me wearing layers, the bottom movement is only something I can feel and not one else can see or feel it.
3:14 I don't know how she can claim babies in utero don't react to the temperature of things on or in the mother's body. Clearly, she's never been pregnant herself, lol.
Babies move around every single day thyr not in one position throughout the pregnancy
My baby has always been sideways lower belly during pregnancy. I don't know where he is now, but I will find out tomorrow because I am 34 weeks.
So when the baby sorts out they should be head down, is that subject to the infant's IQ? 😂
36 weeks & baby is still breech :(
Provided everything else is normal, like baby weight and position, can I have a natural childbirth if I have diabetes and have to take 4pts of insulin?
Please pry for me
Wow that women is finally smilling... unlike other videos
At 36weeks now my baby head is up, pls can it still turn on it's own?
Should I do breech exercise to flip my baby turn. Now m in 6th month. Is it a right time. I m vry much worried abt it.
my baby is transverse at 32 weeks, i hope she turns on her own :(
I just kept getting distracted by your eyebrows 😥😥
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Some hospitals do caffeine shots
Don't let the nurses put anything in you or your baby
According to ACOG, 37 weeks is NOT FULL term. it's EARLY term... this should be something you should know...
Early term: 37 0/7 weeks through 38 6/7 weeks
Full term: 39 0/7 weeks through 40 6/7 weeks
Late term: 41 0/7 weeks through 41 6/7 weeks
Postterm: 42 0/7 weeks and beyond
Data from Spong CY. Defining "term" pregnancy: recommendations from the Defining "Term" Pregnancy Workgroup. JAMA 2013;309:2445-6.
For all you who cannot acknowledge that this was changed in 2013!! Research for yourself. 37 weeks is NO LONGER FULL TERM. It's EARLY TERM. Babies may do ok but they are still developing. Just b/c your OB says so doesn't mean it's evidence based. Use your brains and look I to things on your own too. You'd be surprised how they refuse to use current research and putting mom and babies at risk by using old dated practices.
Jennifer krogman while you are not wrong, you are also taking that information a bit too literally.
Early term, full term, late term...it's still at term.
The point if the distinctions is more for the doctors than for the moms. Doctors realized that it is not good to schedule c-section or inductions before 39 weeks becsuse the baby may still be developing. HOWEVER, they will not stop spontaneous labor that occurs between 37 and 38+6 weeks. That is because this is still FULL TERM or AT TERM.
For example. I went into labor spontaneously with nt second at 38 weeks and my baby was perfectly healthy. Whereas my roomate when i had my first, she was induced at 40+3 weeks and her baby couldn't breath on his own when he was born.
So as you can see, these terms don't really give the whole picture. Honestly there is no way for doctors to know whether your baby is ready or not until they are actually born.
Basically, for the layman or the expectant mom, it is much easier to say 37 weeks is full term rather than go into this whole thing about early term etc etc. She gave the simple explanation. That is all. Now if this was a video about whether to schedule a c section at 37 weeks and she said the same thing, THAT would be a whole different story.
melodramatic7904 by that logic "pre term" is also "term". A baby born at 27 weeks is preterm. Are you saying that's the same as 37 or 40?
37 weeks is 9.25 months.
LogieTheBEST "pre" means "before".. so it means before term, therefore not at term
Handstands in a swimming pool worked to turn my baby. Unfortunately, she'd flip back breech a few days later.
I m 33 week pregnant but now my baby don't go to head down position
Those eyebrows 🙈
Tru Artist insecure people will always point out other people’s flaws, you must hate your eyebrows.
Beautiful Disaster-la please spare me! Lol her brows are horrible
@@truartist5379 True Artist, your piece of art is reflecting sadness... Try to stay positive it's not hard.
Wait! You said that the doctor has to do a ultrasound my doctor told me after I find out the gender they won’t do anymore... and what if I didn’t dilate yet how would they figure out my baby Is head down I’m 35 weeks
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Hi I'm 37 weeks pregnant n I feel baby movement mostly on my left side..n I can feel my baby's head on the right side..so is this an accurate position of my baby??
Hi some of and which baby you get
I feel bump on the right side only. And movements are still below the pelvic region. I'm 20 weeks preg. Should I be concerned
Those eyebrows!
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Useless
you are pretty with a beautiful smile...
Yes! and very articulate 🙃
I knew for a fact baby was head down when i felt hiccups down by my pelvic area.
I didn’t think of that!
What does baby's hiccups feels like?
@@humaskitchenvlogs9178 rhythmic tapping almost like a pulse feeling. My daughters hiccups are very faint but I can feel them down there
Same
Hiccups don't come from the mouth like we do, they hiccup from the stomach. Remember, they aren't breathing in air from your nasal & mouth area so was less likely to be hiccups in your pelvis.