septate womb and breech birth

[Alpinechildcare]

Hi

I'm due in Jan and have a septate uterus.

Everyone keeps telling me that the baby will certainly be be breech, so I'll be booked in for a c-section. I just wondered if anyone here with a septate, or bi-cornate uterus carried a baby who didn't end up being breech at term?

And did any of you who were breech manage to give birth naturally?

The midwife scoffed when I suggested that even if it is breech I don't want a c-section, but my aging neighbour who was a midwife in Poland years ago told me that it was perfectly normal when she was working to deliver breech babies vaginally.

Hi there Alpine,

I have a bi-cornate uterus and I gave birth naturally with baby in correct position.

I'm not sure how separated mine is but I don't think its too deep IYSWIM.

Did you have any trouble conceiving due to the separartion? I have never spoken to or known anybody with this problem.

No apparently it no effect on fertility or actual conception at all.

The main problem a lot of people have is miscarriages if the egg implants in the septum, (the wall between the two halves) because it can't support the placenta. This usually happens within the first few days though so you'd never know, which is why a lot of people with this problem come to think that they might have fertility issues. When in fact they might be conceiving every month it's just where the egg chooses to go.

This time mine implanted on the far right side, so now is just a normal pregnancy, except for this worry that comes much later about there not being space for it to lie in any position except breech. I'm not sure at all though, how likely that is, because everyone I ask has a different answer.

It is a strange one, I was at the doctor the other week regarding my fertility and she said that it can effect it.

I have had 2 miscarriages at 13weeks and ten weeks although I don't know what caused them.

When I was first diagnosed many years ago with the bi-cornate uterus, the consultant told me that a pregnancy could continue as normal, as the side that the feotus isn't in just gets squahed over as if it wasn't there and the side carrying the baby acts as a normal size uterus.

It is hard to find answers when there seem to be so many opinions around.

How many weeks are you now?

Septate - no idea. Did you google Mary Cronk and see hands off the breech?

I have a bicornuate uterus - DD got in the correct position and was born in the normal way, but at 36 + 3 and 5lb2. Possibly she ran out of room.

Am currently 35+0 with DC2, which is transverse, so I am looking at a section unless he/she suddenly turns. It was cephalic for about a day, clearly didn't like it, and turned back again .
Though growth scan today suggested weigth of 5lb9, so that looks OK.

Never heard anyone say bicornuate = breech, though; I thought it was more that they get stuck in the position they're at (whatever that may be) once they get to a certain size...