Dear Bärchen, please move into position

Dear Bärchen:

We've just been for another prenatal appointment. That's why you were poked and squeezed a bit, and why that Doppler (which you hate every bit as much as your Daddy and I love) was used.

At our last appointment two weeks ago, the physicians said that your feet were in the bottom left area of my belly and you were sitting down, with your head sort of under my liver. I thought that's how you were, because you seemed to spend a lot of time kicking at the lower left area of my belly and that same area seemed to have a corner, so I wasn't surprised. Then a few days later, your movements changed, that area lost its corner and became more rounded, and a new corner appeared on the lower right side of my belly. Today they guessed that you're sort of lying across my belly, with your head where your feet used to be and vice-versa.

I know this is completely up to you (within reason, of course; I am your mother and I get some say if you stay put for too long!), but we have about eight weeks until we get to meet you in person. Now I imagine eight weeks seems like forever, especially when you've never even seen a clock nevermind learnt how to tell time, but it isn't really. And you're growing bigger and stronger every day - I can tell, and so can your Daddy when you kick him in the back when he's trying to sleep! You can swim around fairly easily now, but soon you're going to run out of room and you'll start to feel a bit crowded. So please get comfortable, because soon you'll have to commit to a position.

And if that position could be head-down and facing back, that would be really great. Ok?

Love,
Mommy