How to get breech baby to turn?

[Littlebittasunshine]

Hi all I'm 35 weeks and baby is still breech, has been the entire pregnancy. I have 5 days for her to turn or I'm being booked in for a doctor to try to physically turn her ( which I've heard is painful so I want to avoid this) anyone know how to make her turn,?
Thanks x

Hi I think there’s a site called Spinning Babies which gives tips on this.

I just want to say if you end up going in to have baby physically turned don’t worry - I had this done and you barely feel a thing (or at least I didn’t anyway). They monitor you and baby for an hour before, inject you with Adrenalin and slowly massage your gel covered bump to turn baby. Then monitor you both again for an hour after. It was absolutely fine. Painless if slightly uncomfortable but very very minor at that.

The only thing is if they think baby isn’t happy with the new position they could send you for a section so just have that in the back of your mind.

I had a friend who went to an acupuncturist specializing this and her baby turned. I assume it was one that was known for having this skill set, so worth a Google search!

I second spinning babies, there's an inverted position that's easy enough to do that has worked for me in the past.

You could try the old fashioned way of getting down on your hands & knees and scrubbing the kitchen floor.

I turned DS that way. Feeling him flip round was the most disconcerting experience that left me feeling a bit queasy for a while. He stayed put though. I think I was about 33 weeks, so earlier than you.

Not breech but DS was back to back.
As PP mentioned I was 38 weeks and felt a massive what I thought was movement that shocked me a bit. It was cheeky DS moving back to back!
Once I was in labour a doctor managed to turn him around. In my experience i didn't even feel it. That could have been because I was in labour but a friend who had her baby turned also said the same.

I tried spinning babies didn’t work
My daughter went from transverse to footling breech in a week and so both scans showed ecv wasn’t an option. I was admitted to hospital as I started having tightenings and at 39+1 on the day of the seemingly inevitable section, a theatre scan revealed she had turned and was head down. That must have been what was causing the pain🙄

My consultant tried to turn DD at 38 weeks. It was a bit uncomfortable but I was given gas and air which really helped. Unfortunately she didn't turn but I went on to have a breech birth with no complications at all.

Ice pack where her head is and a warm hot water bottle where her feet are makes them want to go towards the heat