how often do babies turn?

[feekerry]

I'm nearly 29 weeks and baby is currently back to back and transverse meaning I can see some interesting things from my bump! I know she still has plenty of room to turn but how often do they turn generally at this stage. Do they turn every day for example or is it just once in a week? Only asking as I felt her turn transverse last week and it was odd but she aint moved back!

I'm not so sure, I was told today that my baby is transverse but I'm only 23 weeks so I no there's plenty of time for him to move. But I did do a little googling and saw somewhere that if the baby is transverse at 30 weeks they may try to turn it round as its harder for them when their in that position, but I also read that babies can turn in labour.

I don't think there is any set rules on how much or how often they turn, so far mine has been very well behaved and got head down weeks ago, I'm 33weeks now, and has stayed there but there's no saying it won't turn breech or transverse in the next few weeks!

Am 36 weeks and baby is breech- was told about a 10% chance of it turning. That isn't to say babies don't turn but generally the further along the less likely they are to turn.

My LO is a mental case and "turned" a lot at your point...between full breech, ceph, transverse and oblique...depending on, I dunno, whatever the hell she liked at the time. At 37wks her bum is still amazing active...proper alien like scenes. Noone's telling this one to slow down, she's still bashing at 60-100 movements a day.
They shouldn't try turning a baby until about 36wks as there's still plenty of room for LOs to flip about (even if it doesn't feel it).
If you want to gently encourage LO to be in a good position, the spinning babies website has good tips and techniques. Sitting on a birthing ball's surprisingly comfy, so that might help, as will swimming and not sitting leaning back.

Oh! I forgot to say. SIL's beautifully ideal presentation baby turned full breech at 38wks having been 3/5 engaged for a week...so nowts guaranteed!

40+2 now and this morning she was head down engaged, this afternoon she was lying diagonally, at 38 weeks she was breech........you notice when they turn at that stage She's like a yo yo with the engaging/disengaging at the moment.

I have disagreed with the consultant from the start about the due date which might explain why she is still small enough to turn as she's doing

I'm hoping that she'll procrastinate for another couple of days, make her mind up and just bloody go for it just like her Mother does

I was wondering how you know which way your babies are lying?? This is my 3rd and I still have no clue which end is which

I have a very hiccupy LO. To begin with I could feel her head and bottom bashing with the hiccups. That along with her feet being stuck in my liver...
Generally, her feet feel like proper proddings, whereas her hands feel like pushings/scrapings. Elbows are like a softer version of feet, and less frequent. A few weeks back LO would poke her bottom out when I rubbed my belly around that area...tres cute... Now (37wks), with hiccups all I can feel is bum-bops and shoulders hiccuping into my left hip and the hissyfits that come with them...

You can always ask mw, or check your notes for presentation...that might give you a good starting point at figuring out what's where, try playing with LO with rubbings and tappings and see what you feel then. I found I just generally had a feeling she was "x" and when MW prodded, I was usually right.

I can tell as I can actually see feet sticking out when she kicks me. Agree that hands feel like scraping. Not always sure on what is head and what is bum tho. Midwife asked me at recent appt where I thought she was and confirmed it. The reason I asked how many times they turn is midwife was kinda making out it might only be a once every few days type of thing where as I imagined it might have been several times a day?

Totally depends on the baby I'd think. Mine's a mover, and I coudl feel her go oblique to ceph or transerse to oblique fairly often...others aren't...MWs even commented that mines a mover, especially if you try hooking her up to a CTG. She is flipping about less..mainly from her left to being on her front at the moment, but then there isn't that much room in there any more. I'm still getting the kind of movements that make me "OOOF" with the voilence however.

Does anyone else find transverse position very uncomfortable? I'm 23 +2 and he is transverse and so painful at times. All across the bottom of my bk, my sides, and the whole of my belly has been really hurting me past few days, to top that off the nausea I've been getting is unbearable.

ye i do yummi, well, def noticed the a difference since she turned transverse. sometimes get some weird vibrations in my side!

It just hurts with me. I have been getting a lot of pains as it is but this just increases them. I've lost my appetite because everytime I eat I get pains and feel unbelievably sick. My back is killing and I don't understand why, I never felt all this with my first, sorry to be winging...feel completely fed up and like cr*p

no whinge away yummi thats what MN is here for!! my friends bub was transverse until 36 weeks and she found it majorly uncomfortable, bad back like you say and when it turned all her aches and pains went!
i had and still have hyperemesis so know where your coming from re sickness.xx

I haven't been sick, but I have a phobia of it so really will do whatever it takes to not be sick. Pretty sure if I let my body do what it wants I'd of been sick 1million times by now. I'm only 23+3 so hoping he moves soon because I don't think I could put up with him being transverse when he's bigger!