Baby breech at 29+3 weeks. Stories?

[Blxo94]

I know there's a good few weeks for baby to move. What can I do to help that? Also what are the chances of baby staying breech if breech at this stage?

Thank you

My second was breech at the same gestation as you. I was told I had until 36 weeks to encourage her to move, otherwise it was unlikely she was going to.

I watched a few videos on YouTube about best ways to encourage a breech baby to move and did everything it said….. and it worked! She was head down by 34 weeks. She may have moved anyway but it felt good trying to help.

From memory, the things it recommended were:

• Not slouching- always sitting upright or forward of upright. I found this one really hard!
• Sitting on chairs backwards (with legs either side of the back of the chair) to help position our body forwards.
• Doing gentle rotations of your bump on all 4s each day to give baby room to move.
• Doing gentle rotations sitting forward on a birthing ball daily.

The best of luck x

Thank you so much! I will definitely try all these! Hopefully stubborn bum moves! If not, I'm definitely not having the thing they do to try move them, looks so painful ( sorry I don't know the name for it)!x

My dd was breech until late on. I did nothing to try and move her, she just did it on her own eventually

My DS turned himself at 35 weeks. He was quite a big boy too (9lb when born) so we weren't expecting it!

Meant to say I did nothing to encourage it but definitely felt him turn in the middle of the night. It looked like he was standing upright in my tummy as he was turning!

That was me.

I was told to walk loads to encourage DD to flip, which she eventually did at about 30 weeks.

But at 38 weeks I felt her really clearly flip again, and she ended up transverse.

I refused the procedure to try to turn her as it has a low chance of success, and had a c section. I know it has its pros and cons, but I thought that was a brilliant way to give birth.

Baby could turn many, many times before you need to worry. I bounced on a Swiss ball a bit but not sure it did anything. Most babies do turn on their own

Omg @tomatobear that sounds painful!

Here's hoping at next scan they are head down! If they do move I'm not looking forward to the big shift. Sounds very strange and painful 😂 I've actually read a few posts in here about it and woman have said they have actually thrown up because of the feeling of them turning!

I was breech at 35+5 then randomly one night baby did one almighty somersault and decided he wanted to be head down! Very uncomfortable. He's been a pickle ever since