Leopold's Maneuvers is a series of hands on positions that your doctor or midwife will use to help determine the position of your baby. This is generally done at the majority of your prenatal visits in the third trimester. When your practitioner does this, be sure to ask where the baby is located. This can give you some time to start working on getting baby into the best position possible.

During labor your labor nurse or practitioner can also tell with slightly more accuracy by doing a vaginal exam and feeling for the suture lines of your baby's skull. The cervix will have to be dilated enough to allow this to happen. It is worth noting that some practitioners are more skilled in this technique, both before and during labor, abdominally and vaginally, than others. Sometimes the best information that you can get is whether or not your baby is head down or breech.