Baby breech at 37/38 weeks?

[Beans1977]

Hi - any advice or similar experiences welcome!

I'm 37+5 with DD#1 and at my midwife appointment yesterday bub was high up and breech. I have top end normal levels of amniotic fluid (19cm) so baby has space to move and is turning cartwheels daily - I wake up and she is head down, then an hour or two later i have a head and bottom poking up each side of my belly button and she's got her feet under my ribs!

I've got to go in for a presentation scan tomorrow and the midwife said the docs may try to manually turn bub or talk to me about other options. My concern is that if they move her, my money is on her changing position again - and again! It doesn't seem to be an issue her getting in right position - it's keeping her there!

Any ideas or thoughts welcome as a bit anxious now that this might lead to an ECS which I had hoped to avoid - but will of course do whatever it takes to secure bub's safe arrival.

My yoga teacher told me to spend time on all fours or leaning forwards. I know that can help back-to-back babies, not sure about breech. I would think there would be no point turning a baby who still has lots of room to move about, although eventually she will get too big to turn so you want her to be head down when this happens.

Also I'd suggest you read the recent threads on Mumsnet about manual turning before agreeing to that option.

Ask the Drs when you see them about the benefits of turning her to head down and immediatly breaking your waters. That's if she's not your first. I've seen this been done in similar situations.

But then you need to know that puts you down the route of induction with hormone drips, etc if breaking your waters isn't enough to make you labour. But might be worth that over a section if you're keen to avoid that?

Thanks BedHog - haven't seen those, will look back. This is our first Viva - I guess the best thing to do is for me to do some reading / research and then be ready for a proper full chat about the options tomorrow. Appreciate the replies x

Beans, I second the leaning forward/all fours approach- I used to watch tv or read my book in the evenings sitting backwards on a dining chair (i.e. arms over the back of it).
You can also try acupuncture and moxa sticks (not sure how much research there is to back these approaches up as being effective so maybe worth investigating first).
Good luck!

Ah, if its your first then its less likely they'll be able to break your waters straight away. Never say never though, stranger things have happened.

To be honest the moxibustion and the all fours/leaning forward I wouldn't say is very relevent here. If baby was just breech and staying breech then I'd definetly say try moxibustion as success rate is about 70%. But I don't really see the benefit when baby is flipping head up/head down.