When does baby's head drop in pelvis during pregnancy ?

Question

Hi,
I'm 33 weeks pregnant and my baby's head hasn't dropped down yet. Sometimes I can feel it in the upper part of my stomach; sometimes I can feel it sideways.
My doctor told me that the possibilities of head dropping down are very less after 36th week and that we should consider turning the baby manually or go for C-section if we see no change in position after 36th week.
All the elderly relatives in my family however are saying that baby can turn the head down even eight-ten days before delivery.
Please share your knowledge. Is there anybody who's baby did take the head down position very late in pregnancy ... say around 38th or 39th week ????
Will be grateful to receive some genuine answers.
Lisa

PS: This is my first pregnancy.

Answer 1

congratulations on your pregnancy :) the baby can change position right up until birth, the chances do go down after the 37 week time frame due to the baby getting too cramped to move around as much. but it's still possible. the only breech I dealt with was my twins so they got stuck much earlier than a single baby would.

Answer 2

My little one turned head-down at about 31-32 wks. I've been afraid that she will flip back, but she seems like she's going to stay that way.

It is less likely for the baby to turn after 36 weeks, but it can still happen. I've heard that you will definitely know when the baby turns if it turns that late - it will be big enough to hurt when it does the flip. I've also heard that having the baby manually turned can be painful, and there are risks involved. One of my pregnancy books also said that the procedure is only 50% successful, because often the baby turns itself back around anyway.

I would wait as long as you can to see if the baby is going to turn on it's own. You still have plenty of time for it to happen naturally.

Good luck with your little one!

Answer 3

I was upside down and the doctors turned me. They just like to wait until your a bit father in your pregnancy, because when they turn they baby you have a greater chance of going into labor. I was born 2 weeks after they turned me. You shouuld be fine, and C-sections are the worst thing in the world.

Answer 4

Well, mine never dropped. Not until the actual delivery and my water had broken, but was head down Hang in there! Don't rush to have a c section. Sounds to me like your dr would rather schedule the delivery. I never had a c sec, but why put yourself through this if you don't have to? If your baby is healthy, there is no need. Is your baby breech? If so, they will not determine a section until you are in labor. They could try to manually turn it....I would encourage this first. Dob't fret, you still have time!

Answer 5

Hi,
I am 28 weeks, and my baby dropped at 25 weeks. I found this odd... I asked my doctor about it and she gave me no real feeback. So, Now she has me monitored for an every 2 weeks appointment. Other than that I cant really answer much.

Answer 6

i do no longer undergo in concepts precisely while now, yet i became possibly 34 weeks. possibly earlier 30 weeks nevertheless. I do undergo in concepts the precise 2d while i found out he had dropped nevertheless...it became approximately lunch time and it unexpectedly dawned on me that I hadn't had any shortness of breath all morning and that i had to pee lots greater! It only ability the toddler is making waiting for hard artwork and their head is shifting down into your pelvis and getting into place to pass down into the start canal. In first pregnancies this many times happens a number of weeks earlier hard artwork certainly starts off, besides the actuality that for the time of next pregnancies it many times would not ensue until eventually only earlier or perhaps only as hard artwork starts off. reckoning on your toddler's place you will possibly experience much less circulation than earlier. For me, no longer in basic terms had my toddler dropped into my pelvis yet he became additionally circled so as that he became dealing with my backbone (it incredibly is sweet, on account that it incredibly is the placement they're meant to be in for start) and it made it extremely no longer hassle-free for me to experience fetal strikes. I even had a panicked 2d at 2am one night that i could no longer tell if the toddler became shifting or no longer and woke my husband as much as count quantity kicks with me (he became chuffed that for as quickly as he have been given to experience the toddler shifting yet I in basic terms extremely felt possibly one out of each 3 or 5 strikes that he felt).