How do you know if your baby is laying posterior or normal?

I didn't know you were pregnant!! Thats great! I will say a prayer, I have no clue how to tell but I will keep you, baby and family in my prayers!

Love,

Kate

Don't be worried!

Hey I found this.

5 Ways to Determine Your Baby's Position Before Birth

As your care-givers examine you during pregnancy, they can tell you what position your baby is in. Is the baby head down? Is he or she transverse, with the back or front facing your cervix? Or is the baby breech with head up, or foodling with his or her limbs out, as if he or she were scared? Though your care-giver can reassure you or induce labor if necessary, it's comforting to be able to find out your baby's position yourself. Here are 5 ways you can find out the position of your unborn baby.

1. If you feel a lump near the top of your belly, usually on one side or the other, push on it. If you feel the whole baby move, he or she is probably head down. This is because the lump you feel is your baby's bottom. The bottom moves the trunk of the baby, too, when you push on it. But if the lump you feel is the head, it will move by itself. You won't feel the whole baby move if it's a head, just that lump at the top of your belly. This is because babies' heads move independently of their bodies until they gain control of them a few months after birth. This is a good way to find out your baby's position.

2. Do you feel hiccups? If so, where are they? If you feel them lower in your belly, baby is head down. If they're higher up or above your belly button, on the other hand, your baby could be head up.

3. Pay attention to where you feel kicking. If it's above your belly button, the baby is head down and in a good position for labor and birth.

4. If your baby isn't head down, you'll probably feel extreme abdominal and rib pain, because the head is close to or under your ribs. If you don't have this pain, your baby is probably head down, not breech. This is another good indication of your baby's position.

5. Use a fetoscope or even a toilet paper roll to have your partner listen for your baby's heartbeat. Listen on both sides of the belly until you find it. If the heartbeat is low in your belly, the baby is head down. If it's either level with or above your belly button, the baby is head up.

Do you mean breech, I thought that's what sunny side up means? Or back to back? Posterior means back to back position. A midwife or doctor can tell you what position the baby is in. Although you can have a baby in the normal position and it turn posterior at any point, even during labour. My son was in the normal position until I went into labour, then he decided to turn posterior and give me back labour, lovely!

A good midwife should be able to feel. Also have a look at a website called "spinning babies" or something similar which shows you how to work out what posiition your baby is lying in. To try and get baby into a better position you need to get on all fours with your bum in the air for around 10 minutes as often as possible!!!!