Baby's Position

Okay so this is going to be a little garbled (and quite long!!)... I'll try and clean it up as much as I can for readability!

As part of my studies I've come across a fair bit of info (some reinforced at my antenatal classes) about occiput posterior vs anterior position, and moving from one to the other... It seems babies tend to move more willingly/easily clockwise, so right occiput anterior (ROA) babies often move with contractions of labour to become RO posterior, usually passing through RO transverse (back of the head toward the right hip)... I find I think of them as stations/times on a clock dial... So 12 is Occiput Anterior, then clockwise it's ROA, ROT, ROP, OP, LOP, LOT, LOA and back to OA at '12' again... With me so far?

So I was told initially (and at every appointment for the last 6 weeks) that little CJ is ROT - his back to my right hip - and thought, cool, he's halfway to the front (only 90 degrees of rotation to go!) but now I find out he's more likely to move the OTHER way, meaning he's got 270 degrees of rotation to still pass through!!! So I stopped doing the optimal fetal positioning stuff like sitting forward on a chair/beanbag etc, and tried positions that I felt would encourage him to move BACK around to posterior, so then I could do the OFP stuff again to get him to swing round to the front on the left... Am I making sense?

So anyway - that was all quite a long-winded prelude to my actual question which is - Can you tell from where baby's kicking where they are sitting?? I was told that because he's ROT I'd feel most kicks on my left, but now I'm getting most on my top right side, does that mean that he's turned like I wanted? Or could it just be his feet tucked under him instead of in front of him or something?? My next appointment is just over a week from now... I can't wait til then to find out!!

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Yeah, they do usually tend to move in a clockwise manner to get to OA but some will just do whatever they want LOL. With the kicks it's hard to say as they can get their little arms and legs in all sorts of positions which makes it harder to tell. With my last pg I could have swore that he was LOT/LOA from where I was feeling the movements, but at 38wks a scan confirmed that he was stubbornly OP. Movements can also be from knees and elbows too to further confuse things LOL.

Hmm - that's what I was worried about :( I can SEE him moving on my right side, but I can't figure out what it is... the lumps look too small to be bum or whatever but I can't be sure.