Baby turning (and turning and turning) at 39+ weeks. Normal?

[BummyMummy77]

Is it 'normal' for the baby to be turning SO much now? (39+2)

He's gone from loa to roa to transverse back to roa and now I think he's loa again but still turning and it feels like he's trying to get into a completely new position. In one afternoon.

I'm at my wits end, it's so painful all I can do is lie in bed and yell!

Is he coming out?!

has the pattern changed suddenly?
if yes call the ward and peak to a midwife.

Oh gosh I'm not sure, hopefully someone who knows a bit more will be along soon but I'm just a few days behind you and can imagine how uncomfortable that must be....

Would it be worth giving your mw unit a ring? Just thinking that they do say to report an increase in movement as well as decrease, I hope that doesn't worry you but just to make them aware maybe?

Thank you.

Unfortunately he has been ridiculously active all the way through.

I'm going to call her but have a horrible feeling she's going to tell me he's just being his lovely active self.

He'd calmed down the last few days though and this cartwheeling is preventing me doing anything but lying around like a stranded whale!

I wondered if sometimes they do this before they come out. (Obviously he's coming out at some point but I mean coming out soon.)

I would have thought (and this is my first so definitely no expert!) that he would be more inclined to stay head down if he were wanting to come out?

Hope you managed to get hold of your mw.

I think they'll be interested about him moving positions at this late stage anyway due to the potential cord issue if he wanted to stay transverse as I had that for a while.

I wouldn't worry so much if I wasn't having a home birth on a sodding island. He flipped from loa to roa to what I think is ROT during the night. Gah. I have an anterior placenta so that also makes me worry about him being pushed into a sucky birth position.

I would care so much if I was having lovely drugs lol.

It would be unusual for them to flip from breech to head down or vice vers at 39 weeks unless you have a lot of amniotic fluid.

Spinning on their head isn't so unusual... Babies can actually start labour say back to back and then flip round to LOA/LOP as it progresses.

Good, that's the main thing I guess.

I worry about his chin too.

My first midwife said I had a weird shaped pelvis and would probably need a c-section. My new midwives said that's rubbish.