DD1 was breech, now 42 weeks with baby stuck with brow presentation, is there something wrong with me?

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The title says it all really. DD1 turned breech at 36/37 weeks and tried ECV, differnt positions etc but no turning her back. Ended up with an awful c-section where she got stuck and was a bit scary.
This time, desperate for a VBAC but baby is jammed in brow presentation(?), now 15 days overdue and nothing happening, despite three sweeps. Midwife thinks it is because of the bad positioning not triggering labour.

It seems very strange that I have two problematic pregnancies. Could there be something wrong with me?

Hi there,
Sorry I cant offer much advice, but am just intrigued as to know how they know your baby is brow presentation? have they scanned you?
The reason I ask if my DS was also bp and I've always wondered, like you, if there was something anatomically not quite right with me that meant baby couldnt get in position he needed to? So I now worry with this pregnancy that the same thing could happen?
What I would say is don't feel like its something "wrong" with you! At the end of the day a healthy baby and a healthy mum is all that matters and if that means babs coming out of the sunroof then thats not such a terrible thing!
Good luck

If you have a brow presentation at 42 weeks, with your history, you should be assessed by a consultant obstetrician. Has that happened, or are you just seeing the midwife?

Kity -The midwife was giving me my third sweep yesterday and said that she could feel that the head had turned and was now pointing the wrong angle, face first. She manually moved the cervix and hopefully the head into the right position but wasn't hopeful it would stay.

Three Little Frogs - I am also under consultant care but am under both midwife and ob. Am booked in for a section now as am so over, which I really wanted to avoid, so was hoping this sweep would work magic. I have been having cramps for about three weeks on and off, it just seems like everything is trying to get going but to no avail.

I have tried everything to get the position right this pregnancy - being active, upright, on all fours, no sofas, even dangling upside down off the bed (thanks Spinning Babies!) and thought it was all going to be fine but again, no cigar. This is why I thought that possibly something was broken in me? It is so frustrating!

An osteopath sorted the same problem for me and DD, late in my pregnancy - it was my NHS MW who recommended the (private) osteopath, and she was quite right!

Interesting about the osteopath,I've been seeing one for SPD and it's been great.

I've been wondering what will happen with this pregnancy, DS1 was breech. Also tried OFP etc to no avail. Did manage to turn him with ECV but he was still in a bloody awful back to back/ skewiff position so labour was v v long. Am expecting another breech tbh,I had heard that it can be to do with the shape of your uterus.

Hope yours sorts itself out for you

hello, I had one ELCS for diagnosed breech followed by EMCS after unsuccessful VBAC- DD2 was back to back with brow presentation.

Later on I had a scan on my bladder and the sonograhper commented on my 'retroverted uterus'. Don't know if connected, and I'm not havingany more kids, but I do wonder whether it was unlikely that Icould have given birth naturally.

Good luck with your delivery!