26 weeks. Transverse baby. Anything I can do?

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Title says it all really.

DS1 was head down the whole way through my pregnancy. Just been to the MW who says baby is transverse which explains my size and discomfort apparently.

Is there anything I can do to encourage the baby to move?

I know I have weeks before needing to worry about a c/s and the baby has ages to move but was just hoping to not have to stress about this over the next few weeks.

Any ideas? Thanks

DD was transverse. God, what a pain.

However, one night I woke up and she just MOVED, right there and then. It was about 7/8 months I think as I recall she was still transverse at my ante natal class.

Mind you, next morning my whole centre of gravity had shifted and I couldn't walk properly, I staggered to the door to answer the postman and he must have thought I was drunk, I couldn't stand.

Got used to it after about 30 mins though.

I used to sit on one of those birth balls but whether this contributed to her moving I really couldn't say.

MW said she would move when she was ready...and she did.

Horrible to put up with though, I sympathise!

How do you know when baby is transverse?

I have a very large bump although I am measuring slightly small for my dates. I feel most of my movements on the right side just below my ribs but I also feel movements on the opposite side too.

Get on your hands and knees and spend as much time in that position as you possibly can!! Lean over a birthing ball, scrub floors, weed the garden, whatever - gravity will help baby turn the right way round.

always lie on your left side. keep your hips tilted forward (no reclining on the sofa etc)

thedollshouse I wouldn't have been able to tell exactly what position the baby was in but I knew it wasn't the right one.

DS was head down the whole way through and this just doesn't feel the same.

The midwife said she thought the bottom of by bump felt empty and that she could feel the head and bottom to the middle/sides...

miggsie I didn't have a birth ball last time round - perhaps I'll get one this time. Do you have to go to mothercare or can you get cheaper versions elsewhere?

I haven't managed to get to my yoga class yet this pg (did it from 14 weeks with 1st) so maybe that has contributed. Am hoping to start tomorrow night! But have been 'hoping to start' for weeks - various traumas have got in the way so far...

Ds was breech and it didn't feel that different than this time really.

When the midwife examined me she said that this baby is breech, she said that the head was on the left side with the feet pushing downwards. I'm not she is right though because all of the kicks I am feeling are on the right side in the exact opposite position to where she said the head is.

ds1 was transverse at this stage, then breech, before finally righting himself at about 36 weeks. Didn't really do anything, so no real advice other than there's plenty of time!

My DD was transverse, oblique and breech before finally turning head down at 37 weeks before my ECV

i used a birth ball - a lot plus reflexology and moxibustion to turn her (and i am sure it worked)

there is a great website called spinning babies which has a lot of tips

yeah - just been on spinning babies and am about to try the leaning over the sofa trick! hehe

This baby was lying completely sideways right up until 32 weeks when he just went WHOMPH (the sounds I made) into head down position. The midwife said at 28 weeks that they don't start worrying until much later.

Now he likes to scratch his back from side to side on the front of my tummy. Looks like a freakin' alien.

rubyslippers what is moxibustion??

I know how you feel. My DC is transverse too and I'm 32+3. DD1 was head down all the way!

I get lots of wriggly movements on both the right and left hand sides, low down sort of under my hip bones. Larger movements are central.

MW said it's perefectly normal at this stage (is it?) and what she would expect.

I'm not worried because I'm booked in for an elective section this time, so doesn't matter to me if this one doesn't move.

Good luck getting yours to shift!

boo. still no movement. i wish she'd move - this is so uncomfortable.

I sympathise. I'm 32+4 today, and my scan last week showed that my boy has his head up near my ribs, one foot up by his face and the other down by my bladder! I'm starting to panic about the fact he's not in the right position yet. Giving the upside down stuff a go, as well as the headstands in the pool. Lots of colleagues keep telling me how late their baby's moved, so I'm praying he still decides to move if only for a bit more comfort. A head in the lungs is NOT comfortable!

Its frustrating when people keep telling you that you still have ages for the baby to move.

Apart from the worry that they might not(!) move it's not much fun. I lie in bed and think 'god she must be uncomfortable - it feels like she's trying to fight her way out of a sleeping bag'!!

Fingers crossed the scrubbing of the kitchen floor I just did on my hands and knees might have helped!

DD2 was transverse right up until 37 weeks when she decided to turn. I was heading for a c-section which went totally against the grain of the homebirth I had planned so I was terribly anxious for her to turn and thankfully she did.

You have ages yet so don't panic, there is still plenty of room inside your uterus for baby to turn aound on a daily basis if desired so could quite easily be in many different positions between now and it's birth.

Keeping your hips higher than your knees (so no lying on sofa or putting your feet up on it, keep feet on floor) and spending time on hands and knees/bouncing on ball will all help baby settle into a good position.

Having said all that, mine still ended up back to back so I didn't have the most pleasant of labours but at least it was at home