36 wks, breech baby, any tips on moving it tonight as have scan 2moro?

[HappyGirl1]

Hi,

36 weeks today, found out baby is breech. Having a scan in the morning to confirm one way or the other and have to decide if I want to have some drugs to relax the womb and then they can try and move the baby which sounds quite painful.

Does anyone have any advice / tips?

[Unbuffy]

Have you looked at the spinning babies webside Happy? (not sure of the address, google will know!) (Or someone more cleverer.) They've got some good (if slightly odd-seeming) ideas. Notalotta help here I'm afraid as dd stayed firmly breech and was for a good long time. If yours has turned recently though, it's more likely to have space to turn back (although I'm sure someone will be along to say otherwise any sec...)

[Unbuffy]

ps ecv (trying to turn baby) was uncomfortable but not painful. (Also did not work as i was 38+ weeks at the time!)

[frakkinup]

Collective advice from another thread seemed to be eat chocolate, get on all fours, stick your bum in the air and then crawl around a bit!

[gillykins2011]

I had a breech baby. Got told to lie on an ironing board upturned against the sofa, do handstands!! My ds was in breech at 28 weeks and never budged. I had an ecv which I found quite tricky psychologically as even though I hadn't been massively touchy of my bump I suddenly became very protective when the consultant with the largest hands in the world did a Chinese burn manoeuvre on me!

It wasn't nice and not sure I would do it again based on what I read afterwards about the risks bit it did work and my little bump began to grow again once he was in normal position.

Good luck.

[HappyGirl1]

thanks for all the tips ladies - will have a look at that website now unbuffy thanks xx

[Ghoulysses]

I was breech at 34 weeks and a couple of weeks later she had turned on her own. MW had suggested at the time that I take to scrubbing the floors - well there was fat chance of that!

[BunnyBaby]

Moxabustion sticks from Chinese herbalist burnt by your little toe work on accupressure points. DS1 turned at 37 weeks using this technique. I awoke in middle of night feeling like being stretched sideways and the next morning midwife confirmed he'd moved.