Low Baby
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Topic: Low Baby
Posted By: Guests
Subject: Low Baby
Date Posted: 01 June 2006 at 3:09pm
| I just had my midwife visit this morning and was told ellas head is very very low in my pelvis. Is this engaged? and from your own experience how long after did you go into labour? |
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Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 01 June 2006 at 4:11pm
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Check your midwife note thingys and see what she put your number out of 5 as...
I'm pretty sure 5/5 is in labour, so maybe 4/5 is engaged?!? Where is someone who actually knows about this stuff?? |
Posted By: stevie_88
Date Posted: 01 June 2006 at 4:13pm
Not here- haha... Think they might of had a day off  ------------- http://lilypie.com">  
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Posted By: daikini
Date Posted: 01 June 2006 at 4:15pm
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I thought it was 1/5 that was engaged? Don't quote me on that - my normally great memory lets me down when I'm pregnant! ------------- Becca, mum of 2 girls & 3 boys |
Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 01 June 2006 at 4:24pm
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crap, maybe i got it backwards.
i'll look in my notes when i get home |
Posted By: daikini
Date Posted: 01 June 2006 at 4:30pm
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I'm pretty sure you're right about 5/5 being in labour, Nikki. ------------- Becca, mum of 2 girls & 3 boys |
Posted By: jax
Date Posted: 01 June 2006 at 4:54pm
Our girl is sitting at D2, which my midwife said was good, but say if she was at D4 then she would be doing more than just having a feel of my tum from the outside LOL  ------------- Jacquie - Mama to Erin, 13.07.06 - Chief Cat Chaser & Marmite Sammie Eater 
Love many, trust few, harm none. ~Anon~ |
Posted By: my2angels
Date Posted: 01 June 2006 at 5:02pm
| I think they can sit there for ages and even come back up. My friends baby was engaged for about 2 weeks I think from memory. I dont think its an indication of labour starting but I could be wrong. |
Posted By: emeldee
Date Posted: 01 June 2006 at 5:05pm
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Yep, they can go down and then come up - Andrew went from D2 to not at all engaged and then bck down again over the space of three weeks.
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 01 June 2006 at 6:11pm
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She didnt do an internal but she felt really low and i even felt a clunk when she was feeling babys head, she didnt mention anything i dont think all i have in my preggy journal is:
Under Presn: A down arrow above CEPH Under Posn: ROA Anyone got any ideas? I only saw it after she left lol |
Posted By: fattartsrock
Date Posted: 01 June 2006 at 6:39pm
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Jacob was at 1/5 for about 6 weeks or so, and 2/5 until I was about 2 hours from pushing him out, they gave me a drip with sumthin' in it to remedy that... ------------- The Honest Un PC Parent of 2, usually stuck in the naughty corner! :P |
Posted By: jax
Date Posted: 01 June 2006 at 8:44pm
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As far as I'm aware they don't do an internal until you're in labour, unless there is a very good reason otherwise. ------------- Jacquie - Mama to Erin, 13.07.06 - Chief Cat Chaser & Marmite Sammie Eater
Love many, trust few, harm none. ~Anon~ |
Posted By: emeldee
Date Posted: 01 June 2006 at 8:47pm
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It's more of an american thing - you hear about loads of internals on US websites. Here they tend to leave all of your girly bits well alone until someone is pushing through from the other side. The down arrow above CEPH means that you are still pretty high. Also, if you can still feel the head then there is a fair bit of engagement to go. She'll bounce up and down a wee bit yet. There is important growing to do... ------------- |
Posted By: Kim
Date Posted: 01 June 2006 at 10:33pm
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I went to the Dr on Monday night and was told Zac wasn't engaged and then went into labour on Tuesday night and had him on Wednesday morning! ------------- Zac Mark - 30.11.05 Samara Ailsa - 13.08.07 |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 02 June 2006 at 7:53am
| Oh yep cool thanks girls, i can feel her sitting low in my pelvis im waddling everywhere lol feels uncomfortable hehe |
Posted By: baalamb
Date Posted: 02 June 2006 at 10:25am
| A friend of my sisters was engaged for near on 4 weeks! Or so she said... I don't know if this is medically possible at all, but it seemed every week she would drop even lower and still went a few days over her due date. |
Posted By: Kazzle
Date Posted: 02 June 2006 at 2:54pm
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Rhiannon was engaged for from 32 wks and i had her at 38wks, so its swings and roundabouts really, as everybody is different, my first internal was when i actually went into labour, so things here are nothing like you see on tv.
Oh i so remember feeling her bounce everytime i walked,  ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 02 June 2006 at 2:56pm
| Shes been squirming lots today feels like shes trying to get lower the little minx lol the kicks and punches feel alot lower my ribs arent getting a hiding anymore, its really bliss hehe |
Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 02 June 2006 at 6:43pm
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CEPH means Head Down and ROA means she is anterior(spine along your belly) on your right side. Which is all good.
Maya didn't engage until I was well into established labour, she was posterior and had to turn her fat self around before she could get her head down. -------------  Maya Grace (28/02/03)
 (02/01/06)
The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: my2angels
Date Posted: 02 June 2006 at 7:38pm
| all the movement I have felt is at the bottom of my tummy, always has been really. Im sure she must have dropped a bit because everytime I move I feel like Im going to wet myself. |