Transverse Lie @ 36 weeks....?

[Anonnnnnnm]

Hi,

Found out our baby is transverse so been pencilled in for C Section.

Does anyone have experience of this? I just wonder why they haven't tried to turn baby etc.?

We were told if Labour starts it's an emergency. I don't understand.... if it's an emergency why risk waiting for him to come naturally at all?

"There was no such thing as C sections when she was born - 1967"

Erm, yes, there were! What an odd comment!

I was TV at 36 weeks. She turned and I went into Labour but she got into distress so I ended having a section anyway!

I was in your shoes and had v calm section at 39 weeks. They talk about the baby getting into the right position as the first developmental milestone. Mine is now 6 and just blinking awkward about doing anything she should 😂. Good luck and sure all will be fine but get yourself to hospital if anything changes.

DD was oblique (sort of diagonal) up til 38 weeks, and had been for a while, I'd been mentioning it since 28 weeks ish but it didn't become a concern to my midwife til we hit 38 and at that point the midwife panicked and sent me to the ward for an emergency scan and potential admission. I then spent a couple hours on a birthing ball waiting for said scan, which convinced DD to stop roleplaying as an upside down banana.

I highly recommend the birthing ball!

I was quite nervous in the weeks leading up to that tbh, as cord prolapse is so scary and I've had a baby come at 37 weeks in the past. They like to start scaring us early don't they.

Fingers crossed your little one cooperates OP 💐

@Juno231 A transverse lie is very common for EDS mothers. In my case the doctors started off assuming my babies would turn, then trying to turn them and finally realising it wasn't meant to be and just leaving them to it! (Separate pregnancies, not twins) Both of mine were transverse and the wrong way round (so spine to spine) all the way through. Both were C-sections by necessity.

How are you @Anonnnnnnm?