Breech or transverse baby - tips for turning

[tomatoplantproject]

Hello everyone

I has my 32 week midwife appointment on Tuesday and the baby was transverse. Throughout most of my pregnancy it has been transverse and I assumed it would flip naturally but I'm starting to worry it is comfy the way it is. So far I'm waggling like a dog on all 4s as suggested by my yoga teacher and have started hanging upside down as suggested by the spinning babies website. Neither are working.

Does anyone have any tips for flipping this baby so it goes head first?

Hi, been there! Mine was transverse at 32 weeks and midwife totally freaked me out, talking about C sections and the like and then I spoke to friends who said not to worry as theirs all turned much later on. But, I basically did not sit down from about 32 weeks until delivery! So, if I sat down it was bouncing on my birthing all, or on knees resting over it. I crawled around on all fours like a madwoman, I did the off the sofa pose every day and went swimming a few times a week. It was fairly exhausting.

I used to look at other pregnant women lolling around on sofas with envy!!

He did turn at around 34 weeks and stayed there, maybe because I kept in with the exercises, maybe because he would have anyway. Who knows, but you have got to give it a try right?

I think it's about the frequency of the exercises. Like its no good doing a token ten minutes crawling a day, you have to commit!

Good luck x

Thanks toto. Am now on all 4s!

My baby was transverse at 36 weeks so I did the same as Totobear and at my appointment last week (37+4), the baby's head was down. I am still not slouching on the sofa though - sit on ball when at home, all fours quite a bit. Taking no chances! Can't wait to slouch again when the bambino is born

I've two friends who've turned baby with acupuncture. It's apparently miraculous. Babies turned in less than a couple of hours!

Our NCT woman (who is also a midwife), said acupuncture's supposed to have a really high success rate. Also have heard of it working by shining a torch at the bottom of the bump or a hot water bottle at the bottom and frozen peas at the top!

Thanks for the thread - was just coming on to ask the same question. I'm 34 weeks, DS2 is breech and I have a fortnight to persuade him to shift!

DS1 arrived 2 weeks early, so I'm feeling the pressure - and wondering how to fit any exercise in when I don't really sit down anyway.

Utopian99 i did that (peas/torch) before baby turned. Also played beethoven into my knickers. Sanity slowly leaving me!

I tried everything and none of it worked because I have a heart shaped uterus and ds1 was completely stuck. There was no budging him!

I did moxibustion which produced a lot of wriggling, so had he not been stuck, I think it probably would have worked.

There is a website called spinningbabies (prob dot com?) which has lots of good info.