to be pissed off every time I feel the sodding head at the top of my bump!!!

[CrapBag]

I am gone 38 weeks pregnant. This baby is breech. ECV a couple of weeks ago failed. Last week I am pretty sure she turned and engaged, then popped out that night and turned back again. Now I am going to be having an ELCS (unless she decides to turn again).

Last time I had a 3rd degree tear and forceps birth with DS. I was offered the chance of an ELCS this time but I turnued it down as I healed well and there was no reason for me not to go for a natural birth. I had accepted I probably wouldn't get my ideal birth, hospital birthing pool with gas and air but I was willing to settle for a normal labour and see how things went wrt to pain relief etc.

Then they discovered she was breech at 36 weeks after she has been head down all the bloody way along!!!!!

She keeps 'poking' her head up by my ribs to the point where it feels like she is trying to burst through my skin! Feet are in my cervix, great fun! Sometimes I can feel she moves her head over to the other side but she generally occupies one side of my belly and it is pretty uncomfortable.

It is like she is determined not to turn and stay breech.

I know it is completely irrational, but everytime I feel her head under my ribs I get pissed off and think "why the hell haven't you turned yet?"

AIBU?

CrapBag - yes - I had a second-degree tear and that, plus piles (sorry TMI) was much more painful than the post-surgery pain I had from my EMCS

YANBU. DS1 turned breech at 37 weeks so I did this thing with a bag of frozen peas and a torch (you can google it). It worked but the little bugger turned back at 39 weeks and I was whipped in for a section.

Given that I had a PPH and that it emerged I have group B strep (when I developed an infection and gave it to DS2 during my epic fail of a VBAC) it was probably just as well that DS1 was breech because he was meant to be a homebirth!

My twins were both breech at 37 weeks and had been for a while. The day before my elective caesarian both the contrary buggers turned. I still went ahead with the caesar though.

I gave birth to a breech baby vaginally and it was no big deal.The Drs tried to talk me out of it but the MWs (when the drs were out of earshot)said they had delivered many breech babies.

I feel your pain. Dd1 was breech from 26weeks, wouldn't move at all despite being on all fours for weeks and a failed ecv. She has always been a stubborn one!

I really didn't want an elcs at the time, but it was fine really and the end result was beautiful and that's all that matters.

Good luck, hope whichever way it happens you have fond memories for the future and a lovely little bundle :)

But, you are definitely not being unreasonable!

My baby was breech but no one realised until I was in labour. HOWEVER, I did tell the midwife and doctor that breech babies seemed to run in my family, AND that I always seemed to have kicks very low down and asked if Baby was breech - I was told that it was probably Baby's hands (I always had an image of her with her hands round her head punching me). AIBU to be pissed off with both the midwife and doctor that they never spotted it???

crapbag - Hope everything goes well for you :)