transvese baby

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Does anyone know what should happen if your baby is transverse lie, can you try for a vb or is cs necessary?
Thank you

how many weeks are you? my first baby was transverse/oblique until quite late (he kept changing!)- I think he finally went head down and stayed head down at about 38 weeks

i don't know about labouring, i've heard that a c-section is usually offered, but they may let you have a trial of labour to see if baby moves, with a view to doing a section if not

I think that most hospitals will be unwilling to try vb (unless you're virtually delivering already).

My local hospital keeps people in from 37w if the baby is transverse - it is too dangerous to have people go into labour at home. But if you do, get on all fours, put your bum higher than your head and phone an ambulance (my obstetrician's instructions!).

DD was transverse. I believe that, unlike breach, a transverse baby can't be delivered naturally. I may be wrong.

As soon as it was discovered, I was kept in hospital. There's a greater chance of a prolapsed cord - although I also had too much amniotic fluid and this may have contributed.

Well I was allowed home when my transverse baby was discoverd at 40 weeks plus 3 days!?

I am pretty sure the only option is a csection. I, however, begged them to try and do an ECV. I had to wait 2 days for it - not sure why?! - something about we only do them on Fridays!

Anyway when I returned on the Friday the baby had turned the right way round again! Not sure how or when as I hadn't felt a thing. Well to cut a long story short they then induced me before he had a chance to turn again!

transverse babies have to be born by c-section

DD was transverse/breech until 37 weeks when she turned

how far along are you?

you cannot physically deliver a transverse baby vaginally. the presenting part is deemed to be the shoulder AFAIK, and you just cannot do it. a c.section will be done. however, as has been said, it is possilbe the baby can turn even quite late on.

I am sorry, have realised my post may have been quite misleading...
I have an eight year old son vb at 41 weeks, ventouse delivery after labouring for well over 24 hours he weighed 9lb 6ox and was my first child.
It was only after his delivery we discovered he was transvere lie and this was recorded in all my medical notes.
I don't honestly know why I am asking questions now eight years on, he has a severe learing difficulty, is non verbal functions at around 18 months of age and I suppose I am curious as to whether his difficulties could stem form his very traumatic birth.
Could'nt think where else to ask this question but it does appear to suggest that most babies who present in this way are delivered by a cs.

Sorry, thank you for all the posts, reiterates kind of what I had thought...

My baby was transverse until week 36, was told that hospital would try to turn baby at 38 weeks if it didn't move itself. Baby is now head down (thank goodness) but was told if it didn't turn and because this is my first pregnancy I would have no choice but to deliver by c-section.

A baby cannot be delivered in transverse. A baby who is transverse at the start of labour will be an immediate section. However, sometimes the head can be in a transverse position - so the lie is "long" but the baby is facing your side. Could this have been what was in the notes?

Mmm, could have been Noseprawn.
Think maybe I will request the notes just to see. Not that anything will change but just to satify my own curiousity.

My twin 2 was transverse. I was told that it was possible she would move into a more sensible position once twin 1 had been delivered, but then it turned out that her head was stuck under one of my ribs (sooo uncomfortable) I ended up having them both by c-section as twin 1 was breech and didn't move either.