Modern medicine today helps in various aspects of pregnancy and child bearing. A pregnant woman is worried about many questions, one of which often arises by the end of the term. In the ninth month the child is fully formed and ready to be born, so the question "how is the baby in the belly?" Is very concerned about the future mother. A lot depends on what kind of life a pregnant woman was in this period. The position of the fetus before birth is very important, because it depends on how the long-awaited delivery for mother and her baby will take place.
From 32 weeks, the baby starts to spin, as if determining how it would be more comfortable for him to be before his birthday. In some cases, the ultrasound may show the wrong position of the fetus, but the child at any time can turn over and change his place. At the request of a woman, a gynecologist will tell you how to determine the position of the fetus.
How to determine the position of the fetus on its own?
To determine the location of the child in the abdomen, try to pay more attention to his tremors. Take a calm, relaxed position, lying on your back and gently try to find the baby. The legs of the crumb are where you most often feel strong tremors. Feel his small, rounded heels with gentle stroking movements. Wherever you feel a slight stirring, there will be child's handles. If your baby turned over his head to the bottom, then his legs will be under your ribs. Very often, moms take a convex belly patch behind the child's head, but in fact it's his ass.
Since in the early years the fetus still has an unstable situation, its place is better defined in the last months of pregnancy. Women often ask what the unstable position of the fetus means. This is when the child can still spin and take different poses in the stomach, changing one position to another.
Types of fetal position
- The most correct position of the fetus is the head presentation of the child, in which the baby's head enters the mother's small pelvis and gradually moves along the birth canal. In such a classic situation, a child quickly and easily is born, because he does not interfere.
- If the baby has taken a pelvic presentation (popka down), then doctors should pay special attention to this and carefully weigh everything to ensure that the birth was successful. Here you need to take into account many different factors: the age of the mother, the height and weight of the baby, the position of his head and a variety of poses. In most such cases, doctors tend to perform a caesarean section to avoid injury. But, if the child is small, and the mother has a wide pelvis, such births can also take place naturally.
- If the child lies down across or lies obliquely in the abdomen of the mother, this is called a transverse presentation , and the birth can be heavy. Most often, doctors also decide on a cesarean section.
But what is to be done by the future mother, whose child has taken the wrong position? In this case, gymnastics will help to return the correct position of the fetus, which is recommended to begin with 24 weeks of pregnancy.
Exercises in the wrong position of the fetus
- It is useful to lie on a solid surface on one and the second side alternately, turning every 10 minutes 5-6 times. This exercise can be done 3 times a day.
- You can lie with your feet, resting against the wall, and the raised pelvis (you can put a pillow) for 30 minutes 3 times a day.
- It is useful to stand on your knees, resting on the floor with your elbows for 15-20 minutes, 3 times a day.
If the child has taken a classic presentation, the doctor may advise you, abuse the bandage or continue to do gymnastics for the correct position of the fetus to anchor it. In the event that it was not possible, and the child did not take the head presentation, the expectant mother should go to the hospital in advance. She should prepare for a planned operation by caesarean section, because in such a situation deliveries naturally, can lead to serious complications.
A pregnant woman should understand that in many respects the appearance of a healthy and strong baby depends only on herself, on her way of life, nutrition and inner mood.