Re: 26 weeks and baby is still head down: normal?

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---I'm on baby #3 now and I've carried diffently with every single one - one high, one low, and the current one switches back and forth. As far as head up/down - they do flips! I'm 27 wks now but haven't noticed this one doing sommersaults (yet) but, the baby does move a lot while I'm asleep and I don't notice it at all - my belly is just shaped funny when I wake up :-). With my first, when she went from head up to head down it felt like I was on a roller coaster (and she did that about 5 or 6 times a day until around 35 weeks or so). The reason they say baby is head down as your edd approaches is because the baby's head engages in the pelvis and he or she is pretty much "stuck" that way - plus the farther along you get the less room there is for baby to move around anyway. I don't think any position is better or worse for the baby's circulation, each one moves differently and its not up to us anyway - they're already their own little people :-) --Christie

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