twirly twins

I had a regular midwife appointment today and it went very well- but the biggest shock was our Baby B has turned again!

At around 31 weeks or so- both were head down, backs together up the middle and legs out to either side- then when I got booked into the hospital for pre-term contractions they saw on an u/s that baby B had gone breech- so yin and yang in there. and with the very little free belly that I can feel, and knowing twins don't really turn much after 32 weeks I was busy wrapping my head around the idea of the added joy of having to have baby B turned manually after delivering baby A.

so- today when the midwife was feeling a bit exasperated trying to locate both heartbeats w/ the doppler she walked me over to the u/s room and did a quick scan for heartbeats- but we saw Baby B had indeed turned! now they're making a circle round the womb. both heads are down (B's nearer my left hip & A still in the middle atop my cervix) and A's body goes out & up on my right side and B is bum to bum (B's bum is near the top of my belly but more to the right than in the middle). sooooo... looks like there's more room than we thought and there is also potential they'll move again-- but the midwife is encouraged and thinks that even if B goes breech again that once A is out she'll turn head down on her own accord pretty easily.

we shall see.

anyone else have twirly twinny tots?

 

I did.. Baby A stayed head down the whole time, but every ultrasound Baby B would be flipping. In the end she was beech and delivered by breech extraction, so it all worked out, but it is amazing that they do all that turning and I didn't even know.

 

yay for being head down again!! Hopefully baby B will stay that way. Glad things are going well for you

 

Baby A is head down and stuck, but my Baby B is all over. Right now transverse, but who knows in a few minutes where she'll be? It is stressing me out as they were both head down at one point. Now I don't know if she will be able to get there again. I am praying for it! Lisa

 

Baby A is my twirly one. She keeps alternating between vertex and breech. Her sister on the other hand, has pretty much stayed transverse this whole time, only changing to breech once before going back to her spot. My Dr's and nurses say Baby A probably isn't letting Baby B do much moving around in there. My DH says Baby A is being a " uterus hog" lol

 

Same here! I had baby acrobats right up until the end!! I remember being 30-ish weeks (34 or 35 I think) and both were transverse (is that the right term, lying sideways?). Anyway, they were one on top of the other and just the week before A was head down and B was breech. My OB was amazed that mine switched positions as often, and as late, as they did.

 

sounds like the textbooks maybe need some updating as it seems to happen so often!