Engaging?

[RayLou]

My doc told me 2 days back that the baby is presenting, or moving towards the pelvic cavity and is 2/5ths in! I'm so relieved I can breathe better now!

[ladybirdflies]

my third baby engaged early and was born 7 days early. your bub knows you want it to stay put, so it will probably come early!!! hehe

[Kazzo]

So I should start the reverse pshycology on the baby now then .

[ladybirdflies]

You can try.... but like you said yesterday, this is a rolling with whatever happens pregnancy! Who knows what this little one has up it's sleeve!?!?! THis is the first time I have wanted to go a little later, we'll see!!

[Kazzo]

Your so right, it is funny how I have this ideal in my head about how everything should be and how it should go and when it can happen and really none of that is up to me.

I know this, it is my 3rd time and yet I don't really know.

[ladybirdflies]

i can't get over the deep surrender that is required with every baby, just when you think you have let go, the next one sheds the light on your ability to let go again!

[Cassius2]

DD2 only engaged the evening before labour.

DD3 engaged on and off from 30 weeks. i went into preterm labour with her at 34 weeks. but that was when she wasnt engaged hahaha.

She popped back down around 36 weeks and had a bit of a looksie, then popped back out a few days later and stayed that way until I was in established labour at 39w3d.

It is the case that an engaged baby can make conditions favourable, but i like to think that it is not necessarily a hard and fast indicator. especially for subsequent babies as they do tend to be quite mobile in the pelvis. was there any movement in the pelvis at all?? or was she securely locked and loaded? sometimes they can be engaged but still mobile ITMS.