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32 weeks and baby still transverse, anything I should be doing?

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redclover79 · 14/02/2008 16:41

I'm 32 weeks pg with my third pg and baby is still transverse, has been for weeks! I'm just beginning to worry a little as I've not felt the baby turn out of this position throughout the pregnancy, I think she may have done once but not even for 48 hours and that was about 6 weeks ago!
At my last mw appointment she said if the baby hadn't moved by the next appointment (in 3 weeks time) she would refer me to the hospital to see if they could turn manually...
ds1 turned like a catherine wheel the whole time, ds2 was head down the whole time and didn't move...
Does anyone have any tips on what I should be doing?!
tia!

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jellies · 14/02/2008 16:43

I sat on a birthing ball for 3 weeks.. It worked well he ended up head down..

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redclover79 · 14/02/2008 16:47

thanks jellies, I've been looking for my birthing ball... been sitting on chairs backwards in the meantime hoping it would have some effect, nothing so far!

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jellies · 14/02/2008 16:50

Tesco's sell yoga balls £4.00 same thing!
I can't remember the other tricks except long walks.. Hope it turns soon!

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redclover79 · 14/02/2008 19:46

I'm planning on sending dp into the understairs cupboard to look for the other one! I can guarantee that it wont turn up though til we buy a new one!

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deaconblue · 14/02/2008 20:13

ds was traverse til about 34 weeks and right up to the end spent a lot of time with his feet sticking out of my right side. Poor little fella had a squashed little toe from poking it in my side for so long

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redclover79 · 14/02/2008 20:53

shoppingbags - did you do anything to persuade your ds to move or did he do it of his own accord?

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littleducks · 14/02/2008 21:26

just buy another one! my dh bought me one then the other one and crucially the plug thing for it turned up before i had even unpacked the new one, so i could return it for a refund.

Im 34 weeks, baby tranverse still, midwife hasnt said anything about it yet but i keep trying to do the optimal positioning stuff but i just want to sit on sofa.

jellies · 15/02/2008 11:08

Don't let them turn her manually without gas and air!!!! IT HURTS a lot!

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redclover79 · 15/02/2008 11:40

gas and air makes me vom!!! that should be fun then!
littleducks - will send dp out this weekend to get me a new one, he's not very good at keeping receipts though!

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biglips · 15/02/2008 11:44

i had a transverse pg all the way thru my pg till i was 36 weeks and she turned by herself

Chaotica · 15/02/2008 14:29

Swimming worked for me (if you can bear to appear in public in a swimsuit the attendants looked very very nervous when I went swimming at 37 weeks ). But he turned back to oblique/transverse anyway couldn't get head down it seemed -- and so I ended up with a cs (sorry - not what you want to hear).

Good luck.

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redclover79 · 15/02/2008 22:08

found the birthing ball! dp turned a funny shade blowing it up as we couldn't find the pump!

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deaconblue · 16/02/2008 18:44

redclover, sorry for very late reply but no I didn't do anything to sort ds out, other than sleep on my left which I think iirc I was doing anyway

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