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transverse at 34 weeks?

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thebeesnees79 · 04/09/2012 13:48

my midwife is gobsmacked that my baby has some how turned transverse since my last appointment. Is there time for movement in anyone's experience?
also if baby doesn't turn can I refuse to have him turned? I have had two normal births so I have no problem delivering and not trying to get out of a natural birth. I don't want them to turn him because of all the horror storys I have heard from family/friends who had their babys turned :(
Thanks in advance
Maria & naughty blue bump

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AngryFeet · 04/09/2012 13:57

I have two friends who had transverse babies at 34 weeks. One ended up with a C section and the other ones baby turned the right way by 36 weeks.

Hard to say what will happen although I hear acupuncture is good for turning babies.

You don't have to have the turning procedure but they will have to do a section if he doesn't turn in time.

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thebeesnees79 · 04/09/2012 14:11

thank you for the reply. I know a few people who had ecv and it never worked, plus its supposed to be painful (yes I am a wimp and given birth twice lol)
I will be 36+3 when I see midwife again so wait and see I guess :(

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Goldrill · 04/09/2012 14:19

hello thebees - I've just had the 34 week checkup and mine is also transverse. My MW didn't bat an eyelid though! She said that they would hope she would be head down by 36 week appointment but that as she is not first baby it wasn't worth worrying about as there's a good chance she'll shift.

I wasn't worrying about it but am now wondering if I was being a bit too relaxed! Not intending to have an ECV either way, so I sincerely hope she does move - you can absolutely refuse it if you're not happy.

BellaOfTheBalls · 04/09/2012 14:31

DS2 was still transverse at 36 weeks & turned at 38 weeks. I was promised repeatedly that there was plenty of time. MW should refer you for a positioning scan at some point between 36-38 weeks if it is still an issue. I was told its more common with subsequent babies as everything is a little looser and therefore they have more room to move

My MW should probably have sent me off for a scan but didn't as at my 38 week appointment it appeared he had turned. He had, but as I found out later even the most experienced MW can struggle to tell the difference between a engaged bum and an engaged head....

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thebeesnees79 · 04/09/2012 14:35

thank you. I am really sure I don't want ecv too so if he is still transverse they will have to section me.
Just been reading up that it can be caused by a twist in the pelvic floor from hip carrying older kids. Makes a lot of sense to me as I still carry my three year old on my hip (naughty I know)

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Thumbwitch · 04/09/2012 14:37

beesknees - my obgyn has told me that it's not really a worry until 36w (currently oblique transverse at 34w) and that hopefully the baby will go head down by then.

You may refuse an ECV if it's suggested/offered - I would after reading a horrendously sad thread on here about a lady who had it and it caused placental abruption and loss of her DD shortly after birth :( :( and hearing about someone in RL that that happened to as well. Avoidable tragedy.
You may have to accept that you may need a CS instead though (as will I, if baby refuses to sort itself out!)

Reflexology can help as well as acupuncture - both/either are worth a go.

Thumbwitch · 04/09/2012 14:37

xposted, sorry.

BellaOfTheBalls · 04/09/2012 14:45

Ooh and try the spinning babies website as well.

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thebeesnees79 · 04/09/2012 14:47

thank you thumb witch & bella.
I looked at spinning babys and had to laugh at some of the crazy positions they suggest! doubt I could manage none pregnant haha

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PollyIndia · 04/09/2012 15:32

I had a scan last week at 36 weeks and baby was transverse. He/she seemed to have moved today so head was down but still not in my pelvis so I have to see the consultant next week to agree on the cutoff date at which point if the baby still isn't engaged then it's a c section. I really want a homebirth so really hoping the baby engages.

I did the spinningbabies exercises religiously over the last week and the mw said it had made a difference. Now head is sort of down, I just need to sit upright and forwards rather than the other exercises. She did say my pelvis might just be too small though. Really hoping not.

Please move babies!

trilottie · 04/09/2012 15:33

I'm 34 weeks on Sunday and transverse too, although she has been all along. Most uncomfy. Before i see chiro/acu/moxibustion type people i'm trying the following:

head on floor/knees on sofa move for 30s a few times a day (from spinning babies site)
swimming when i can

-walking when i can

belly dancing for a few mins a day (!)
sitting on ball instead of sofa
and just generally being on my hands and knees as much as poss.

nothing yet though so i can't tell you these work... I too am trying to avoid an ECV but its my first and I really don't want a C section either :(

Thumbwitch · 04/09/2012 16:01

trilottie, I don't want a CS either - but I'll take one over an ECV. I'm not risking losing my baby. And what beesknees said about it really hurting is what I've heard as well - funny how you've never heard of something before and then you start hearing about it all the time? Well that's what happened to me over the last couple of weeks. Someone I know had her baby in May, she had a failed ECV (and it really really hurt) and then an ElCS; and it was her colleague whose baby was stillborn after the ECV resulted in placental abruption.

I'll have to try some of the exercises but I'm wary because my pelvis is pretty unstable as it is, don't want to muck it up any more!

trilottie · 04/09/2012 16:25

Thumbwitch yes i agree with you - i probably phrased that wrong as i don't think i'd go for an ECV either especially with only a 50% success rate, plus the riskiness, but i'd really not like either. I am trying to think of the positives of a C section if it comes to it. I just had my heart set on a home birth and if I have a C section that makes a home birth with number 2 unlikely (although not impossible). Plus I've also told everyone we're having a home birth and have lots of positive images of us all tucked up in bed afterwards etc etc. Oh well, baby's health trumps all of that so I really can't complain.
I wouldn't recommend the 'breech tilt' from the spinning babies website if you're already unstable as I found it really difficult to get on and off the tilted ironing board without twisting/pulling something and it gave me really bad backache. however there's lots of info on other techniques on the spinning babies site.

Thumbwitch · 04/09/2012 16:28

Thanks for the warning, trilottie! Definitely will give that one a miss then.

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