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I could tell how she was, but I also knew she was breech.

I didn't pee quite as much, but had trouble breathing. Her legs were under my left rib cage and head under my right.

If I poked her butt, her whole body would wiggle. If I poked her head, just her head would move.

Do you feel hiccups? I think that might help you figure out the position. I think my little guy is normally head down and usually it feels like they are coming from around my hip or lower belly.
With DS I was convinced he was transverse because I just felt stretching across my belly but his butt was on one side and was just kicking out, head was down on the left side. Same thing most of the time with this pregnancy just the opposite side. I think he still flips at night sometimes but by morning is back in the usual position stretching across the top of my belly.

@Mae: mine went head down and then flipped back up again before 32 weeks and stayed that way. Honestly, she didn't have any room to move. I could tell by her kicks which were below my belly button, her hiccups (up high and to the right), and whenever I would push down on her head--she would butt it out. She had her head up in my ribs and it was so hard to breathe. I carry my weight in my stomach, but I could still tell with her. She had her feet froggy legged up and would stick her head out if she was frustrated. I never tried to move her because I felt like she moved back head up for a reason. She flipped down and went back back. She had more room sitting up I suppose.

@Mae: yes. She was almost 9 lbs 2 weeks early. There was no this baby was coming out naturally. She would have gotten stuck. I had a great experience.

The same thing happens to me and I was concerned that he had turned to breech. I called my midwife and she had me scheduled for an ultrasound to confirm. He was not breech. I think I was just being paranoid. If you are concerned definitely bring up your concerns at your next appointment!

so, update--I just had my appointment (32.5 weeks) and baby has indeed flipped to breech, I was right! I'm hoping she turns again on her own...

@Mae: my dr has an ultrasound machine in the exam room, so she usually does a quick ultrasound at each appointment. She didn't say anything about exercises I could try to do yet--she mentioned that she starts trying to move the baby around 35 weeks--but I might look into them! At my childbirth class, the instructor talked about sitting upright on a birthing/exercise ball as one technique to turn baby, and that def seems like an easy one to try.

I thought I knew exactly where they both were based on where I've been feeling the strongest kicks, but at this morning's ultrasound I found out that Blake's "head" was really both their butts together on my left side. Oops. Alice was back to being head down but her kicks are still really low. Granted, mine have less room to move around, but she's been low the entire time and her kicks are always very low and she's usually head down. Your little girl has always been way down there too, right? It's possible that she's head down but scrunched up down there so you're still feeling her all the way down there!

My second baby was breech and I could definitely tell: her little hard head would poke out around my belly button, and she kicked super low, with painful, sharp kicks to my cervix. It felt like she was tap dancing on my cervix! She did flip, just before my 36 week appointment. Swimming helps flip babies.

@Mae: aaand another update, today at a follow up appointment (for a different issue) baby had already flipped! I thought she hadn't because I felt hiccups at the top of my stomach while I was in the waiting room, but then her head was down in the u/s. I sat on a birthing ball for awhile yesterday while watching tv, played some music down low, put frozen peas on the top of my stomach for a few minutes, and did some cat/cow yoga stretches, but I don't know if any of that actually made a difference. I'm hoping she doesn't flip again!

I was told that this far into pregnancy, if your LO flips, you will know it. It's apparently a massive and uncomfortable movement. So i hope she stays head down!