Any advice please-transverse baby/hospital admission/ prolapsed cord

[Kate140]

Hi
I’m currently 36 weeks and have been having growth scans, baby girl showed breech at 32 weeks & then last week transverse
I have presentation scan coming up on Wednesday. I know her head is still on my right hand side, I’ve tried spinning babies exercise, playing music down there, heat :(
has anyone been/is in the same situation?
the midwife’s are said they’ll admit me after scan in Wednesday if still transverse, I saw a consultant after last scan (who I will see again Wednesday ) who was really quite calm on the situation & said it may not be the case to stay in & some hospitals don’t even admit patients & the risk is low
I’m 40 minutes away from the hospital which is scary to me, I have an option to move in with mum who is 10 minutes away from the hospital.
i also have a 2 year old soon to be 3 her birthday is this Saturday! Who has been waking up every night calling me to check I’m still here & been very clingy to me ;( breaks my heart to think I would have to leave her
please if anyone has any advice/stats on the situation …what would you do?
I can’t stop crying /thinking/worrying about it all

Realistically, ten mins from the hospital is still too long if your waters break with a transverse baby. The cord prolapse risk is high, and the outcomes bad. It would be awful to be admitted, but not as bad as the alternative. The best outcome is you have a very boring few weeks in hospital, an uneventful c section and then a fast discharge.

Gosh that's a tricky one. My DS2 was transverse but it was only discovered on my due date so I didn't have to make that sort of decision - it was obvious at that point to be admitted. Could your daughter also stay with your Mum or do you think that would be more disruptive to her?

Back up or back down? It’s more concerning if back up.
did you labour spontaneously last time, and at what gestation?
I would take a bag to your appointment and have childcare organised so that you can discuss after your scan.

Hey I was in the same situation but live rurally and a minimum of 90 mins from hospital (& rely on a boat so about 3 hrs in the middle of the night when boats are off) due to distance I was admitted. I had to stay in for just over a week until baby was big enough to have a c section. I had a 19 month old at the time. Honestly it was awful having to wait for a week and be away from him. We don't have much childcare so although we had cover for the birth dh wasn't able to come see me every day as the travelling was a bit much for my toddler and we wanted to save his paternity leave until the baby was born. Health-wise though it was completely fine, everyone was healthy and out within 24 hrs of birth. The week of stress was a distant memory pretty quickly. It is a factor in having a 3rd though as I don't know how we would manage if that happened again with two young kids!! Everything crossed for you but tbh the hospital might be the safest place to be

I had two breeches by C-section and my 3rd was transverse then head down then breech then transverse, then head down. I laboured with her but ultimately she turned transverse, got into distress, got the cord wrapped around her neck, and in the end I had her by emergency c-section. There is very little you can do, other than plan for a c-section in the case of a transverse lie. I know it’s disappointing but 17 (24 and 21) years later I promise you, how they came into the world will be unimportant, even though it feels huge now. Your baby still has time to move but work on forming a plan. Your other child will come through m, as will you. I know it’s worrying but whatever happens, try to remember that your goal is a healthy baby and a stress free mum. Best of luck x

Thank you for your replies
my little could stay at my mums but my partner thinks it’s best to keep her at home/ in her routine & she goes to nursery 3 days a week which is 5minutes down the road
I know nobody likes staying in hospital but Its my biggest fear as 4 years ago I had a miscarriage & went in for surgery the surgeon that did it perforated my uterus I had to stay in hospital that night with nothing on me
I keep thinking about my little girls birthday I have to be there for that ;(
i’m so upset about the whole situation

My kids' birthdays are the same week and this year I missed their joint birthday party because I was in hospital. It was shit, but it was where I needed to be. Everyone sent me videos and face timed the cake.

I'm not promising this will happen to you - but my transverse at 36 weeks baby turned definitively head down about 20 minutes before my 37 week presentation scan. I'd literally been at the midwife that morning where she'd felt he was transverse and sent me up to the hospital. He then stayed head down until birth. I also had older DD's birthday coming up, her school nativity, I was really stressing out anticipating a hospital stay and missing so much for her - but then none of that was necessary.

Please do prep a bag, prepare the logistics for a transverse baby. And if that happens, your family will find a way to cope. But babies are unpredictable little things and there's still time.

What was your first labour like?

It’s quite rare for a transverse baby not to move. At this stage they’re more likely to move back to breech but it’s still moving!

Secondly it is very unlikely that your waters would immediately dramatically break and your cervix dilate before you having any early labour twinges. Unless things were VERY fast for you first time around.

Mine also turned head down at 40+1, mere hours before he was born, but I guess the decision has to be made on the 'what if'. Obviously see what the consultant says but I tend to think about these things like any kind of risk assessment - what's the likelihood of the event (about 1% risk of cord prolapse if baby stays transverse I believe) and how bad is the outcome if it does happen. For me that helps give me a feel for the decision I should make.

I was induced the day after my due date last time as had Polyhydramnios they didn’t actually test me but sent me away saying I had G diabetes
have been tested for that this time round…negative & the fluid levels are all good

I had a transverse baby and cord prolapse. I was very glad I was in hospital when it happened.