Odds of breech baby turning after 34 weeks?

[Bumblebeewine]

Suppose I'm after personal experiences as opposed to statistics
I have one DC already, delivered vaginally. 34 weeks now and the baby is 'wedged' right up my ribs. My stomach is still the same at the bottom (soft and flabby), not part of the bump as such etc. Has anyone had this experience and still gone on to have the baby turn/delivered vaginally? Thought of a c section terrifies me

No experience of turning but I had a breach baby. Turned out he was breach all along and the midwifes thought he was head down. Apparently very tricky and by no means at blame. Anyway this was discovered at just under 42 weeks so far too late to turn so I opted for a c section. They did give me the option of an assisted vaginal birth but reading the risks it personally wasn't for me. The c section was fine. All very calm, ds arrived safely and I was out of hospital after two nights. The recovery is hard but the more you move the better it is. I drove after 4 weeks and was able to do a lot of things sooner than I thought so please don't be scared by a section.

It not the answer you want, I was the same as you wedged right up with a soft lower tummy I ended up with a c section but :

• have you been offered an ECV? Mine failed but success rates are higher if it’s nit your first ( it was my first)
• second/subsequent babies more likely to spontaneously turn later in
• my ELCS was a dream, very chilled
• my friend is stubborn and delivered breech vaginally twice

My dc2 was breech until 36 weeks when she turned by herself. Dc3 was breech but didn't turn. We only found out she was breech when I turned up at the hospital 8cm dilated so I had to have her vaginally which was fine.

My second baby turned at 35 weeks after I did exercises suggested by Breach clinic at chelsea and westminster. Apparently, 2nd babies are more likely to turn as your muscles are looser. I've lost the printout they gave me, but it involved kneeling on bed with chest flat against the mattress for 15 min strdtches, so baby dislodges and slides. I was due for manual turning at 36 or 37 weeks if that didn't work

DC2 and 3 were both breach up to around 39 weeks and turned themselves. DC3 then flipped transverse, discovered at 41+2, but managed to get himself back head down by the time he was born. I didn’t particularly feel them moving - maybe helped by them both being small and me apparently having a “saggy uterus”. You can imagine how thrilled I was when the midwife announced that!

www.chelwest.nhs.uk/services/maternity/our-services/your-pregnancy/a-breech-baby

I had a manual turn at 36 weeks and she flipped back as I got off the bed. Turned herself head down at 37

I had the same problem. I bounced on a ball, applied frozen peas, I used those funny little sticks on my little toes that you light. I lay down and climbed walls with my legs.

I really didn't want that turning them around thing they do. He turned

The exercises i did are.on wiki (how to turn a breech baby). Spinning babies website has other options, but i found them a bit extreme. I didn't try moxibustion, but the midwives were excited about it

Typing with baby in one arm anx mob in the other... sorry cor typos!

My first was breech until 37 weeks. I followed some of the positions on Spinning Babies and did moxibustion. Baby turned by herself at 37/38 weeks (such an odd feeling).
Good luck!

baby turned at 36 weeks ...while I was driving at 70mph down the motorway. That was fun!

I've been offered an ECV but not for a while the midwife said. She seemed skeptical if it'd work though as the baby is properly up there, barely in the bottom half at all, all at the top I really want a vaginal birth but I think it'd be too risky to try and deliver breech

How's it going Op? Have you tried any of the exercises on the spinning babies website?

It has turned

Yay!! Anything in particular that helped?

Sounds really weird but I leant over in a really strange way to reach something but rather than bending forward I stretched backwards (not to move the baby, I was just being awkward so I didn't have to get up ) and felt a massive movement. Then few hours later they were like yup, head down. I had been doing the bending over, bottom-in-the-air thing the night before so I don't know if that helped.