help! at 30 weeks i can feel my baby's head 3 cms away from coming out??! advice please!

[beth07]

hi, i know this is really weird,but i can already feel my babys head is engaged about 3cms into my vagina..i have had twins,6 years ago,and heard that the head being engaged early doesnt nessesarily mean anything in subsequent pregnancies- but my twins came at 33 weeks,the layer of skin is very thin around the head,and im getting nervous.should i get checked out? does this mean labour might come early? I have also been getting really uncomfortable braxton hicks since 20 weeks,about 20 times a day,but my midwife said not to worry. please any info would be appreciated! thanks xx

I think you need to call an ambulance and explain that you think your baby is in the birth canal. Call 999, get off here. Don't walk around.

I am guessing you have been checking yourself? Go and get checked out, but if you are going to go into premature labour, prodding around down there really isn't going to help, you could trigger it.

engaged means the head is on top of the cervix, not 3cm down the vagina, you need to call an ambulance and get medical help now. How long have you been like this?

yep belle is right, I read that as 3cms dilated but if you can feel your baby's head then you need to call 999

Farking hell, my stomach's doing cartwheels now.

I hope you're on the phone pet.

Have you called 999 Beth are they on their way?

am off to bed now, but hope you have called 999 and they are on the way. Fingers crossed you are ok

thanks for your messages, i called up the midwifes at the hospital and they said it doesnt mean im in labour but i should go and get it checked out,so im off there now. xx

Good luck, hope all goes well

Do you mean you can feel your baby's head but there is skin/something covering the head and you can feel it through that/in the uterus and not that the actual cervix is open and you can actually touch your baby's head directly?

If so, I think that is pretty normal. I felt all of my babies heads during pregnacy via my vagina after my mum had told me it was possible, so I checked. however, the heads obviously weren't actually in the birth canal and the cervix was closed.

I hope everything is alright.

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Any update on this? Is the op ok??

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Hope OP is ok, hate it when these threads go quiet.

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Maybe she has been kept in?

30 weeks delivered - is that relatively okay?

hoping it is not prem labour as 30 weeks is v early.

it would be unusual for the baby to be that low, with the cervix dilated enough for the head to be so low, without serious pains and waters breaking or at least bulging i would have thought

layer of skin around the head - not sure what that means..

the cervix could be thinner /effaced early.

thre is no layer of skin aroudn teh head, so i presume OP means the cervix was effaced..

also, the cervix can be a couple of cm dilated after a vaginal birth, for ever more. ( multip os)

the head being engaged, is v ery differnt to being in the vagina

the baby can feel v v low, but actually not be in the vagina

anyway, if a pregnant woman is worried about prem labour or anything else, the best and really only course of action is to contact her midwives/delivery suite immediately for medical advice

hope she's ok xxx

Thanks for your concern and advice everyone, apparently there's no need to worry - I was told everything's normal down there except that I'm carrying the baby very low..which is unusual; but then I am only 8 stone, 5'3" and carried twins, so maybe my body's just usedto being squashed around and can't give much space?! I don't look 30 weeks, even though baby's normal size,so it makes sense she's pretty low. unless I get any signs of labour or unusual pains we should be fine and go to term. Thanks everyone!
xx

beth Glad your ok, good luck with the rest of your pregnancy

Phew!

That is great.