Your baby’s position is changing all the time, but staff at your antenatal visits may start to note which way your baby is lying or ‘presenting.’

The 'PP" on your notes refers to the 'Presenting Part' of your baby - i.e. which part would present itself to the world first.

Most babies are head down by the time labour starts, so this is usually the top of the head. If your baby is breech, some doctors may try to turn the baby using directed pressure on your bump.

Breech

Your baby is bottom downwards; there will be time for your baby to turn for several weeks more yet.

Vertex or Cephalic

Either of these terms means that your baby is head down, the most normal position for labour and delivery.

Transverse

This means the baby is neither head up nor head down but lying crosswise in the uterus.