How would you describe the feeling of the baby being engaged?

[Firsttimetrier]

I’m coming up to 37 weeks with my second but first baby didn’t engage until labour started, but baby is head down and I have the strangest sensation when I walk.

It almost feels like something is scratching/rubbing on my cervix, but doesn’t feel like too much pressure.

I wondered how others would describe the feeling? As everything I read is about pressure but that’s minimal.

I didn’t feel anything at all and head was engaged from 36 weeks. Came at 37. In hindsight, the day before my bump dropped massively and my pelvis looked really swollen but as it was my first I just thought that was normal for the gestation. Didn’t clock that he’d be making his arrival within 24 hours!

I didn’t really feel any different.

Increase in waddling and heaviness very low down. subsequent babies can Bob in and out of being engaged though, so that makes it more difficult to know if it means anything will happen anytime soon.

Suddenly felt like the only way to walk was to waddle (rather than just being an effort up to that point) and that i had a huge weight that had slipped down inside my pelvis…which sounds a bit like what you can feel

Waddling.

My second never engaged, even after my waters had broken. Super quick labour,

I didn’t feel anything. Went in for a plan C and he was so engaged they had to use forceps to wrestle him out 🤣

Apparently that’s not even common for women in active labour on emergency Cs

The waddling and pressure mentioned by pp, also the very unnerving feeling like the baby might just fall out at any moment (if only it were that easy 😂).

I was 4cm when I had my planned c section and I had no idea, the surgeon told me afterwards!

As others have said, waddling.

I could walk perfectly normally one day, the next I could only waddle. Baby arrived four days later. This was my third baby.

I’m not waddling too much tbh, but it’s just the strange sensation, feels bit like the sensation you get if you have a smear test, if anything?

Hopefully, it all kicks off in the next week or after Christmas!