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I had an anterior placenta and couldn't really tell. I kept thinking she was breech because I could feel hiccups near my ribs but turned out she just moved alot when hiccup ing and it was her feet bumping into me.

My friend had a posterior placenta and you could tell exactly what was feet, hands, etc. I was super surprised at the difference

Where have your placentas been located?

No clue, ever! Even if I felt a big round bump, I couldn't tell if it's the head or the bum, and I couldn't tell knees from elbows either!

I was really convinced I could tell. I even tried belly mapping. Ultrasound confirmed I had no clue.

I had no clue and just felt kicks EVERYWHERE. He was sunny side up which no one knew for sure until the c-section. That is except for the first (very horrible, no good) midwife who I saw in L&D triage who told me he was sunnyside and then mocked me for wanting a painkiller-free induction. The thing I’ve always wondered is how did she — and no one else — know?!

I could never tell. I was always surprised during 3rd trimester ultrasounds.

With my first my midwife showed me how she felt her and where the head and back and bum were. Once she was head down she didn’t move very much so I’m pretty sure I could tell exactly how she was (she kept her legs up under my right rib cage and kicked me after every meal).

With my second she definitely moved around a lot more and I was convinced she was sideways for a while, but she got to head down and the midwife felt it and there was no problem with delivery. So I have no idea if any of my guesses were right.

I had a low posterior placenta with my son. I knew exactly where he was for at least the last 12-14 weeks; I was able to confirm from 31 weeks on too because I had weekly ultrasounds (yay complications). He was transverse with his head on my right side and butt on my left side with his legs folded over kicking himself in the forehead fairly often. Then he turned breech at 37 weeks, then head down at 38, and then beech again at 39 when I had my c section. I had so much extra fluids I was measuring 5 weeks ahead of schedule from 31 weeks on, so he had plenty of room to move.

I had access to ultrasound at work during my pregnancy with my LO. Seeing his movements a few times made it much easier to correlate what I was feeling. I always had a very clear idea of positions and movement.

My son was head down for most of the pregnancy and I could tell bc his butt was sooooo skinny, it would poke out of my stomach in a literal box shape. He had hiccups every.single.day, still doest was basically in my throat so I never felt them in the "birth canal vicinity".

I couldn’t tell, but my doctors always could. LO’s head was pointed down. Thinking back on it I probably should have figured it out since all his body movements were on the middle to upper part of my belly.