Breech - can i request a scan to confirm?

[sunface]

hi all, i'm 35weeks this week and at my 28 week appointment baby was breech, went again at 32 weeks and the midwife (who i'm not that convinced by) said baby had turned. This is my 3rd DC and i don't want to go into labour with an undetected breech baby. Question is, can i request a presentation scan even if midwife has said baby is head down?? Or should i just ask for a 2nd or even 3rd opinion first?

I have had 3 dds all who have been breech at some point. DD2 tuned at 35 weeks, I had felt her turn and the midwife confirmed it the next day by touch. With dd3 I was booked for a scan at 36/37 weeks to discuss options should baby had remained breech, but the midwife felt the baby, told me it had turned but did a scan to make sure.

Hi sunface

My DD was breech until 37 weeks and I am currently almost 40 weeks with another one who is almost certainly breech (diagnosed at 36 week GD scan and subsequently by midwife). Both times I've felt movement very low down - kicks to the bladder and back passage, pain under the right rib (where the head is), a big lump on one side of the belly button (the bum - I assume on cephalic babies it would be higher up - not sure though) and other lumps/kicks lower down (knees??). No kicks to the ribs and nothing much higher than say 5cm about the belly button. And, obviously, nothing going on at all in the pelvis, no engagement whatsoever.

Since this is your third DC your womb is prob quite flexible, and you may well have the DC moving quite a lot in the last few weeks. Definitely worth a second opinion though. Ask the midwife to pay special attention to where the heart is, and the suspected head/bottom (Apparently heads are a bit wagglier than bottoms!). HTH

*heartbeat is (!)