how do you know if baby is breech?

[Anonymous]

Just curious, since I haven't had an ultrasound since 20 weeks, now 35 weeks. How do you know?

[Anonymous]

Your doctor will feel your belly at your check-ups and can approximate position. If they suspect baby is breech, you'll get an ultrasound to confirm.

[Anonymous]

They can also confirm with an internal exam.

[Anonymous]

With my first, the dr made it a point to check where the head was as I got closer to delivery (36 weeks or so). He did it just by feeling my belly. I assume if he thought it was breach then he would have ordered an ultrasound to verify.

[Anonymous]

i could totally tell myself -- he wa a big baby and i'm a small person so he got stuck early on and really didn't move. you could see the area just under my right boob swell up whenever he decided to stretch. on the sono you could even see his little legs crossed at the ankle most of the time (i had many sonos). he's over 2 years old now and when he sits he still often crosses his ankles!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They can also confirm with an internal exam.

Really? I thought that last internal exam was to check for dilation/effacement and the mucous plug was still in place.

Is the doc. really able to reach and "tickle the baby's toes"?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They can also confirm with an internal exam.

Really? I thought that last internal exam was to check for dilation/effacement and the mucous plug was still in place.

Is the doc. really able to reach and "tickle the baby's toes"?

Seriously? They are feeling for position.

[Anonymous]

Doc can tell a couple of ways: externally, by feeling your belly and through using the doppler for heartbeat--it will be stronger toward the head region; ultrasound if they have any doubt, and finally, internal exams.

[Anonymous]

Yep, your doc/midwife will note suspected presentation at each of your visits starting at about 30 or 32 weeks. They can often feel the positioning of the baby's back, head and butt by external abdominal exam at about 32 weeks, 34 more clearly. Supected presentation is supported by where on your belly the doppler detects the strongest heartbeat. My little girl is currently breech (at 32 1/2 weeks) and her heartbeat is strongest up right underneath my right breast. That's also where we feel her hiccups -- the little, regular hiccup-induced bounces are up high, just underneath my breast at my lower ribcage, where her head and upper chest are. My midwife will order an ultrasound in 2 weeks to confirm presentation if this little one doesn't appear to have flipped into vertex by 34-35 weeks.

[Anonymous]

For what it's worth, my kid was head-down from about weeks 22-28 and breech from 28 to present, and I can't *personally* tell any difference. Her feet have been in the same place either way, and there's where I get most of my movement. The OB definitely CAN figure out which is which, even just by feeling my belly. I just thought I'd be able to tell as well, and I haven't.