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Did you have a breech baby that turned themselves?

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MooChops89 · 08/05/2020 15:18

Hi all, currently 32 weeks and last time I had a scan baby was oblique breech, and it's only in the last day or two that I'm almost certain he's head down now as I'm feeling kicks more towards the top of my bump, but in these last few weeks he's been all over the place!
Just wondering - if your baby was breech at any point, when did they turn themselves? And when they did, did they stay that way or was there lots of flipping about before full term?
I had a c/s last time and am hoping for a VBAC, his position is currently the only thing that might get in the way of that!
Would appreciate your stories!

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yukka · 08/05/2020 20:46

Yes breech until 36w and went head down and turned. Born at 38 wks.

combatbarbie · 08/05/2020 20:54

Oh god yes, I was very late on and the midwife recommended just going on my hands and knees to read a book or watch ipad and let nature do its bit......

I actually thought I was recreating the scene from aliens a couple of hours later when she turned!

Historyofeverything1 · 08/05/2020 20:56

Yes when I was 36 weeks with Dt one was breach but turned one night was very uncomfortable.

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0DETTE · 08/05/2020 21:00

@MooChops89

It was ok , a bit uncomfortable, its hard not to tense your muscles when someone is pressing hard on your belly.

Here it’s only the consultants who are allowed to do it and they are monitoring the baby all the time and watching on the scanner. So if theres any sign of baby being distressed they whip you off to theatre.

JiltedJohnsJulie · 08/05/2020 21:00

No but I've had 2 very stubborn transverse who both luckily turned, funnily enough around 32 weeks Smile

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MooChops89 · 08/05/2020 21:09

bumblingbovine49 I'm a midwife myself and a colleague has given me some instructions for moxibustion, was planning to try in a couple of weeks. I'm going to get someone to palpate me first in case he is head down and I go turning him breech again!

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Lilithpaws · 08/05/2020 21:29

Yes, mine turned at 36 weeks, 24 hours before I was due to go in to have him turned. He did it overnight while I was sleeping and I woke up feeling like I’d been hit repeatedly and very hard.

Sandsnake · 08/05/2020 21:56

DS turned at 37 weeks, DD at 38 weeks. Both born by ELCS at 39 weeks. With DD she turned on a Saturday night and it was bloody uncomfortable and like she was trying to force her way out!

Troels · 08/05/2020 21:56

I had one breech baby who turned head down at about 32 weeks, then promtly flipped back to breech the next day. It felt bloody weird.
By the time both my breech babies were born. They were pretty wedged in and couldn't turn at all.
The OB I used to see said he wished he'd known, (kids were born befre I met him) he used to tuen babies using some pressure points on your feet and had a high rate of success.

MrsH497 · 08/05/2020 22:09

I think I have a gymnast was breech at 32 week scan, 34 appointment. 36 week appointment midwife said head down had my 38 week appointment yesterday and it's breech again but I didn't feel any huge movement to suggest it had moved. So booked for an ECV on Tuesday and really apprehensive about that and chance of a c section

Wrinklybags · 08/05/2020 22:16

Breech at almost 37 weeks, went to a music concert and jumped around the whole time and felt a sudden uncomfortable movement, walked to the car and realised my bump was a different shape 😂

fussychica · 08/05/2020 23:56

Transverse. CS arranged. Turned. CS cancelled. Turned back. CS went ahead in case I went into labour. He's now 27.

aurynne · 09/05/2020 02:53

Does every woman with a breech baby in the UK end up with a CS? Are there no vaginal breech births in the UK?

managedmis · 09/05/2020 02:55

Yup, DD turned the day before my section. I didn't feel her turn. I still had a section

RhymingRabbit3 · 09/05/2020 03:56

32 weeks seems very early to be worrying about this, you have a while to go and a very good chance they baby will turn by themselves soon.
Mine was breech at my 34 week appointment (midwife wasn't concerned st 34 weeks) but head down by 36 weeks.

RhymingRabbit3 · 09/05/2020 03:58

P.s. he may not even be breech. I had s scan to check at 36+1 and she was definitely head down. At my next midwife appointment at 38 weeks I saw a different lady and she asked if the baby could be breech 🙃 I think she just had a hard bottom - the baby not the midwife

LiveFatsDieYoGnu · 09/05/2020 06:02

Does every woman with a breech baby in the UK end up with a CS? Are there no vaginal breech births in the UK?

It depends on where you are - at my local hospital the midwives are all trained to manage vaginal breech deliveries so if you decline an ECV or it is unsuccessful, attempting vaginal delivery is still an option, but this isn't the case everywhere. As I understand it, for quite a while it was the case that breech presentations automatically meant CS and a whole generation of midwives effectively became deskilled in managing vaginal breech deliveries, but there has been a big effort to reverse this in some areas.

sashh · 09/05/2020 06:27

Me, well I was the breech baby.

This is back in the 1960s so no u/s scans. My mum's GP turned me, I flipped back breech.

GP did it again and had my mum lie still for an hour afterwards, I filpped.

I believe there was a third 'turning' and again I flipped so the GP decided not to turn me again.

Then 2 or 3 days before she went into labour I filpped on my own and engaged my head.

I've always been a stubbon bugger.

GreenLeafTurnip · 09/05/2020 06:30

With regards to baby turning by doctors.....it's not performed in the country I live in any more because of the risks involved for baby. I had a C section because my baby was breech (And I had no amniotic fluid left and an incompetent cervix) but would have been C section anyway.

Bienentrinkwasser · 09/05/2020 06:35

Mine flipped himself at 34 weeks. It was a bizarre feeling!

SpyApp · 09/05/2020 06:37

Yes 2 of them and they turned very late. Both times I was advised to go to the swimming pool and hang about up the deep end. I'm sorry that option isn't available to you now. Sad

SnowsInWater · 09/05/2020 06:53

Acupuncture at 38 weeks turned DS2 as I was told I couldn't have my homebirth if he stayed breech. Nothing happened while I had the needles in but he turned that night.

thewalrus · 09/05/2020 07:47

DT1 turned between my final scan at 36+5 and my ELCS at 38 wks. I didn't feel it at all. I'd been offered a scan to check before the section of I thought he'd turned, but as I hadn't felt anything (and I was offered the 9am section slot or waiting for the scan) I didn't take it.

MindatWork · 09/05/2020 07:56

DD was breech from fairly early on and didn’t turn - I spent hours on my hands and knees, hanging off the sofa, doing yoga - all the spinning babies stuff and none of it worked!

I think her head was wedged under my ribs as my bump was a very weird lumpy shape. Didn’t have time to do moxibustion or ECV as she came early at 34+4 (waters broke and contractions started soon after - I think she ran out of room!)

I think a lot of babies do turn but a lot also don’t, so I would hope the best but try and come to terms with the fact you might need another section. Good luck!

IvyEffa · 09/05/2020 08:25

Mine turned by himself, quite late but no idea when. I didn't feel a thing. No one realised he'd turned until the surgeon pulled him out at the c section. We were all a bit surprised! I think he had a very hard round bum that felt just like a head! I wasn't at all bothered that I'd had a section under 'false pretences', it was all good

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