Baby's Position

[Ana Gram]

Stupid question but it is a long time since I gave birth and I can't remember this.

How do they find out the baby's position before birth or during labour?

[workin'mumof2]

Most "Good" doctors are able to tell you just by feeling your stomach. my doc this this right up untill 40weeks. most of the time head down. If u are worried and your not sure you can also check via an ultrasound.

[Rainbowbrite]

My midwife just felt my stomach & told me.

[Bron]

Yep, just some poking and prodding of the belly followed by "there's the head, here are the feet and there is the spine".

[Ana Gram]

Thanks guys, I must have had some people not doing their jobs well as no-one actually did that with me. They had no idea what position DD was in until several hours after I arrived at hospital.

[Chickadee]

Ditto to what the others said. My ob checked by feeling my belly and also based on where the heartbeat was. It was confirmed by ultrasound.

I suspect that checking head position (up or down) is a bit different from checking whether bub is posterior.

[Ana Gram]

Quite possibly, I don't know how they check that either. But there were no ultrasounds and there was no feeling of the belly at the end of my pregnancy. Actually the only thing they did with my belly apart from two ultrasounds during my whole pregnancy was measure it.

[stellarella]

Abdominal palpation. During labour a good midwife will know from the sounds you make and where you are feeling your contractions.

If they do internals they can feel the skull bones and can tell.

In pregnancy mums can often tell by the kicks.

An anterior baby will make your tummy hard and firm (spine facing out) but a posterior baby will make tummy kinda squishy with limbs facing out.

[Ana Gram]

Abdominal palpation. During labour a good midwife will know from the sounds you make and where you are feeling your contractions.

If they do internals they can feel the skull bones and can tell.

In pregnancy mums can often tell by the kicks.

An anterior baby will make your tummy hard and firm (spine facing out) but a posterior baby will make tummy kinda squishy with limbs facing out.

Well that confirms the fact that i had a cr@p midwife , she told me to shut up.

My belly was hard all the way through pregnancy, even when she was stuck posterior, and I refused an internal.

[stellarella]

Well that confirms the fact that i had a cr@p midwife , she told me to shut up.

My belly was hard all the way through pregnancy, even when she was stuck posterior, and I refused an internal.

Not good. I would be so angry

Yep my tummy was hard too. First babies, tight stomach muscles and all that