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Anyone have a breech baby?
I've been doing all the "home remedies" to get it to flip and if it doesn't in the next week I plan to move to acupunture and the chiropractor. I don't want to do an ECV, especially since I have an anterior placenta. Any recs for an acupunturist near Conshy or Bala or experience with a breech baby?
DD: 6-24-11
EDD: 9-20-14
Re: Anyone have a breech baby?
The last time I was in (34 weeks) the doc talked to me about scheduling a c-section, so that freaked me out. If it has to be that way, then fine, but I'm not comfortable scheduling one at this time nor do I want to schedule it before my due date. However, supposedly it is dangerous to go into labor with a breech baby so they would want to do it at 39 weeks. I just don't even know what to think about it all.
DD: 6-24-11
EDD: 9-20-14
Francey was transverse. She flipped down like once in the final 3 weeks, but it was for maybe a day or so. She did flip 180 often - sometimes her head was on the left, sometimes on the right. My doctor asked if I wanted to set an appt to try to flip her and after review, I thought against it (pain? possibly hurting the baby? possible for her to flip after all that work anyway? no thanks). for some reason I freaked when I was told that i should sched a csection, mostly because I thought that I was failing as a spawner, that I had to try to get her out the vag. But through a lot of counseling from friends, and from my husband, I finally came (mostly) to terms with the fact that a cesction is just fine, all will be alright. And it was. I should also say that I told my doc that I was going to try to do some of the natural ways to flip her and he said 'Oh Good! that is great. but they don't work."
I guess if you ask my advice, I would say get a csection on the books so that you have a good date and see how things go in these coming weeks.
I have never heard it is dangerous to go into labor with a breech baby, but I am woefully undereducated in that area.
34 weeks seems really early to me for a doc to what to get a c-section on the books. I would probably push back on that for sure. I would also press the doctor for his/her personal c-section rates and that of the hospital.
It just seems super early to be pushing you in that direction if everything else is otherwise fine.
What kind of breech is the baby? Footling, Frank, Complete? L was footling for a short time and she turned on her own.
You still have lots of time for the baby to turn b/c it's still small enough. I had an AP as well.
I believe the complication with going into labor on your own is that you can have a cord prolapse where the cord slips down through the cervix before the baby does. A cord prolapse is a true emergency and dangerous to the baby. Contractions cause the cord to be compressed and cuts off oxygen flow to the baby.
I'd probably do everything to get the baby to turn and schedule a csection just in case it doesn't. I will say from experience that an emergency csection AFTER being in labor sucks big time. I would have much rather had a scheduled csection and been mentally prepared for it then to experience what I did.
I can see scheduling it, I think I would just be turned off and skeptical they were pushing it so soon.
I mean, L&D isn't exactly Vetri. It doesn't fill up that far in advance.
My baby was breech. She was pretty much that way the entire time. Because I had a low-lying placenta, I had an ultrasound at 32 weeks to see if it had moved. The placenta did but baby was still breech. Because I had blood pressure issues, I had to see my dr weekly at this point. At my 35 wk appt my dr checked to see if baby moved, but she didn't. I was offered a version, but I knew I from the get-go I didn't want one so I opted for the c-section. My dr's practice also performs scheduled c-sections at 39 wks. I scheduled the c-section for 6 days before my due date; 3 days later my water broke & my daughter was delivered via c-section.
The only info I have to offer is: when my dr discussed the c-section with me, she told me an ultrasound would be performed prior to surgery to see if the baby had flipped; if she flipped, then no c-section. Sure enough, after it was determined my water did break, an ultrasound was performed to see if the baby had flipped (my stubborn little girl didn't flip). I was lucky & my recovery was a breeze.
Like PP said, your LO still has time to flip. You could schedule your c-section but not need it. To make sure I got the dr I wanted for surgery, I went ahead & scheduled my c-section. Of course my baby had other plans. Apologies for the post length. Good luck!
LD's right: a prolapsed cord is a possible complication.
The other thing I would say is if you do decide to schedule, consider when they want to schedule it. I see people being scheduled for 39 weeks and I don't know why dr's do that.
I've spoken to my doc about a repeat csection for eventual baby #2 and she mentioned scheduling it at 39 weeks. I don't like that idea b/c unless you're spot on when the baby was conceived you could be giving birth too early. Even babies born at 37-39 weeks can end up with sucking/feeding problems. I personally was very worried about that b/c I wanted to BF.
It was a null issue for me though b/c my baby was born at 41 weeks exactly.
You are probably right. I just keep thinking of a friend whose doctor told her how "c-sections are so much better for everyone because they can plan their day" when he came to visit her post c-section. Granted -- all parties involved agreed. He had just wrapped one up and was on his way to the golf course (literally) and she and her husband thought that was great.
Regardless, it makes me side eye when a doctor starts talking about them so early. Maybe unjustly, who knows.
This is a totally unhelpful comment, but I just want to put it out there that women can and do deliver breech babies vaginally (I was breech and my mom had a vaginal delivery. she's also a superhero)
a lot of it is so doctors can avoid the possible risk of complications, as previous posters have mentioned. but umm, a c-section is major abdominal surgery. I had one because this kid would have stayed in until his 2nd birthday if given the choice. And ditto everyone-if you're scheduling a c-section, ask why it would have to be before your due date.
I was told it was frank breech, which I guess is the best breech way to deliver vaginally. However, I didn't get the impression that the doctor was willing. I know it is still too early and it can flip, I just freaked out to hear "scheduled c-section" at my 34 week appointment. I guess if it hasn't moved at my 36 week, I will put something on the books for the doctor I want, but it just doesn't sit right; I guess I feel the same way Rum did.
I want the element of surprise of what day it will be here, know what labor feels like, etc. I know all that doesn't matter in the end, but I can't help it.
DD: 6-24-11
EDD: 9-20-14
Yes, it does matter. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. There's nothing wrong with wanting to have a certain experience - whether someone opts for an unmedicated birth or a scheduled csection by choice.
I wanted a med free hospital birth. I got an emergency csection after 40+ hours of mostly med free labor. Your birth experience will stick with you forever, regardless of which way it happens. It's totally normal to have ideas of how you want it to go.
amy I think it's just and un-just because my guess is that at least 85% of this advice is based on the doctor's desire not to be sued if something goes wrong. The cost of medical malpractice insurance is sky high and is actually driving good doctors who want to run their own practices out of the medical field altogether. It sucks, but the doctors do have to protect themselves, too.
Infant mortality rates in the U.S. are also kind of our dirty little secret as Leader of the Free World, and I'm not sure if that also adds additional pressure to just play it safe.
Obviously I don't have any actual figures on whether c-sections really offer that much of a better chance that nothing will go wrong...
Yeah that's right my name's Yauch!
ditto the prenatal yoga on this one. we were breech for a long time (not like it mattered anyway) but there are a few yoga poses that are typically helpful to get a baby to flip.
I was all sorts of freaked out too. But finally calmed down. Scheduling it to get the doctor that you want (or that your OB wants you to have) is good. Of course, we scheduled for the chosen doc for October 12, and we went in, waited 6 hours and ended up leaving and coming back the next day because there was a woman delivering csection twins and the mom had had a lot of complications. The next day they introduced me to Dr SoandSo who was going to do my procedure, and by the time they finally took me in, I can tell you that I have no idea who she was. A short young female Indian.
ETA: a lot of the girls here have great , strong advice on getting the birth you want.
I checked out that site. It's where I got the things I've been doing at home. Thanks.
DD: 6-24-11
EDD: 9-20-14