Transverse baby 36 weeks

[SassyPants87]

Hey all

So baby is lying transverse and I've tried everything to get her to move and she's just not budging!!! Did anyone have any babies that moved from transverse to head down late in pregnancy? I'm keen to avoid ECV if they offer it to me!

And to those whose babies didn't move did you have to be admitted into hospital earlier just in case your waters went? I don't know if because of Covid they're still doing that

Thanks in advance!

Following, as my kid has been flipping between breach and transverse, and now settling on transverse so far. I am just over 34 weeks, so still have time.

Yep my first DC was

Try spinning babies website? I did Many of those exercises obsessively In the last few weeks!

@Mc3209 such buggers aren't they!

@Gerdticker did your DC move to head down in time for labour? I've been doing some of the exercises on spinning babies. Sometimes I feel like it's worked and then she'll just move to transverse again!

@SassyPants87

Yes - I can’t quite remember which week it was, but she was really late to go head down and didn’t engage at all until labour. I then had a v fast 5 hr labour from the first twinge, in the water at an MLU. Went from 4-10cms in about an hour.

So the transverse thing wasn’t indicative of much!

I've had 2 breech/transverse babies who moved very late on! I'm 40 weeks now and this baby moved around 38 weeks, didn't feel the big movement everyone was telling me I would!

At the 36 week scan on both occasions baby was clearly not head down, given my first turned so late I asked for another scan late on this time rather than book in a section and at 39 weeks we saw that they had moved head down.

I did pregnancy yoga this time which was good to show me some positions to get into, although not sure that's why the baby moved!

DC2 was transverse until about 38 weeks when he moved all of his own volition. I didn't even realise until I went for a scan and the doc confirmed!

I have a friend who had four babies who were all transverse or breech until 40-42 weeks. Lots of hanging around in hospital for her! All cephalic normal vaginal deliveries without any intervention amazingly so it is possible for some women.

My second was transverse at 38 weeks. He didn’t move and I had a c section at 39 weeks. They wanted to admit me at 38 weeks because he was in a dangerous position should I have gone into labour but I hadn’t even finished work at that point so i refused.

Hi! My baby was transverse, was booked in for a C-section at 39 weeks. Turned up on the morning of the section, all gowned up for theatre, and the consultant came and scanned me just to confirm position, and he’d gone head down! C-section cancelled there and then! They did offer me induction though, rather than go home and wait for natural labour, just as he had been in all different positions those last few weeks and wanted him to get out whilst head down! So he moved head down during week 38!