Hi Archie and all,

I had my regular weekly chekup today I have completed 37w3d. Everything is fine except the baby is not yet engaged,Dr says all we can do is wait, am li'l concerned as by choice donot want to go fr a c-section.Pl suggest / comment.

golden archie replied. Golden,
if you want to have vaginal birth then go and walk no matter how hard it can be.
Soni gave some ideas on exercise along with them if you combine walk you will be fine with ref to labor.

Though for most baby can be engaged as early as 4 weeks before labor during first pregnancy not necessarily each one will have to experience this and this is definitely not a reason to schedule C-section. Advait, my first son, got engaged only when I was in labor.

Archie soni replied. Hi golden though this is address to archie but in my doc. appointment this time baby's head was high too .Doctor will be particularly interested in whether or not the baby's head has 'engaged' towards the end of pregnancy. This is because it is an important sign that the pelvis is going to be large enough to accomodate a vaginal delivery. In a first-time mother the baby's head usually engages sometime between the 36th and 38th week(apply to you )of pregnancy. In subsequent pregnancies, the head may not engage until actual delivery (for shia and me).
And in the mean time all we you can do is walk in your fours cat/dog walk ,clean the floor sitting ,squad etc. i know walking is espcially difficult since you will also get BHC.
I hope things work out for you take care
soni golden replied. hi siha,

tx fr the reply, ya u r v true, walking ia a bit difficult these days, initilly i used to walk fr atleast an hr,but these days it's difficult to manage even 20 min. yes,all we can do is wait but nothing else n hope fr the best. u too tk cr n luv to ur angel.

golden siha replied. hi golden ,though this msg is for archie to reply..i would like to add that even my situation is the same i am 38w 1 day..and sterday when i went for check up doc said the head is still floating..but also assured that it will be like this for the second one..the head sometimes get fixed on the onset of labour..and has asked me to wait...and do regular walking..but its too tiring to walk these days with a huge pot..
lets hope for the best..
take care..and do not get worried..