to wonder why fetuses are comfortable head down and how come when they get turned up the right way they don't explode?

[TheYuleLogLady]

If a person out of the womb stood on their head for months they'd get a banging headache and be all weirdy. So how come foetuses don't?

and when they come out and their delighted parents turn them head up how come they don't explode?

I have asked midwives and doctors this and nobody can give me a reasonable answer.

Ds1 was breech and I always thought he should have something to show for being 'the wrong way up' for 9 months. He is nearly 18 and I am no further forward with my musings. No obvious differences with Dd and Ds2 really.

Also babies are not born and then have to stand up. They spend the first few months lying down (unless they have reflux). So they are not "turned upside down" from their perspective, they are turned on one side.

this could be the answer?

Friendly paed reckons it's something to do with amniotic fluid. I'm not so sure.

TheMeow - your sister-in-law is 6 years old??? [totally ]

My kids are ALWAYS upside down.They watch TV on their heads on the sofa.It must feel good to them

loonyrationalist it still works with mine (4.4 and 2.6) but made my PIL look at me a bit when I was doing it this weekend

But they're only upside down for the last few weeks anyway, its not as if they're like that for months!

(and pmsl @ a MN'er turning a 4yr old upside down to check a mental interesting theory!

this reminds me of when my youngest was born, his twin brothers called him an upside=downy for weeks untill one day one of them turned round and said "he's the right way up now" ooooooooh it got me so mad when they called him it.

You can get very disorientated when diving - there is much less of a sense of up and down.
Especially if your eyes are closed and you are doing forward rolls

jacksmama

if my mil had not had a miscarriage 4 years ago then her baby would have been my sis in law, 25 years younger than my dp.

my mil is 45 and my dp is 29

But they aren't proper upside down are they? Not until really near the end I always thought it was a bit like being in a very snug hammock, or lying with your back up the wall which is weirdly comfortable. Plus you lie down at night time so they aren't upside down then.

Hairymclary...what?

I want to know how they cope withthe boredom and feeling of being trapped in there.

THere is only so much cord twanging and rib kicking you can do.

What the hell do they do with themselves all day? And don;t say "sleeping" becasue I think we all know that is rubbish clearly not the case

HairyMclary, have you been upside down too long? Blood rushed to your head?

jacksmama DP's third sister is FIVE. DS was born the day before her third birthday! She is 22 years younger than DP.

I'm the oldest and have a sister who is 6 - if me and bf ever get married she'd be his SIL.

Funnily, bf is the youngest by far and his eldest sister is 47! It's like 3 generations in the same generation... (we are both in our 20s).

Lots of uncle/aunt/niece/nephew relationships in our families who appear more like cousins...

This is fascinating

I had two breech babies out of three and two of them watch tv upside down. One hangs off the sofa and the other stands on his head on it.

But it's not the same two who were breech. Ponders.......

My mum tell me that when she was pg with me, the forewaters broke 2 weeks before I was born so my head was very squished with nothing t support it. (This is 41 years ago). Apparently I came out looking like The Missing Link. Still have a ridge in between my eyebrows