How to detect fetal position?

Before 26 weeks of pregnancy, the fetal position was not fixed because of the large amount of amniotic fluid. After 26 weeks or later, it can be measured by manual method, which is divided into four steps:

1 Check the fetal position at the bottom of the uterus. The examiner stands on the right side of the pregnant woman and moves his hands alternately at the bottom of the uterus to understand the fetal position. The characteristics of fetal head are round, hard and floating ball feeling; The breech position is characterized by softness, no floating feeling and roundness; Sometimes you stretch your legs.

2 check the fetal position on both sides of the uterus. Push the pregnant woman's abdomen to the opposite side with one hand, and touch the fetal part with the other hand, taking the fetal back as a plane; Then push it to the opposite abdomen, and touch the uneven parts such as the limbs, hands and feet of the fetus with the other hand.

3 Find out whether the fetal position on pubic symphysis is head or buttock.

4 find out whether the fetal presentation has entered the pelvis. Examiners face pregnant women's feet and find out and present them alternately with their hands.