Breech baby at 36 weeks - Help and advice please!!!

[mum2becks]

Hi, seen my MW today at 36+4 and she is sure baby is breech, I have been booked in for a scan on friday to confirm and then to see a consultant to discuss further, but MW says that I will need a CS if it is breech which will be done at 38 weeks!!! Thats only just over a week away!!!

Has anyone had a breech baby that has turned late? MW did say they may suggest trying to turn it but I have heard mixed reports on this and it worries me that they could hurt the baby!!

Is a CS my only option if it doesnt turn? MW seemed to give the impression that there wouldnt be a choice?

Any help or advice really appreciated as I am now very worried and shocked as a CS was the last thing on my mind!!

So the NICE guidelines are a Catch 22 then?

I thought that was the case with breech, but wasn't sure, I knew you'd know better. My first daughter was caught and her head was bruised from it, but, as you say, she was only 20 weeks. It wasn't for long and she didn't even need any help, my body naturally delivered her even with me pulling (if that's possible) rather than pushing!

TBM - lets say it looks like they'll become a self fulfilling prophecy in the not too distant future . I found this article from AIMS pretty much on the nail with my experience. It was written in 1998, which is pre Term Breech Trial. Nothing seems to have changed.

I do think that another part of the problem is that things are different for pre-term breech babies. More pre-term babies will be breech (because they haven't got round to turning) and they have different body proportions. And because they're pre-term and often unexpected I guess they're more likely to come as a vaginal breech baby so that's quite possibly where your average consultant will gain his only breech experience - which then influences his advice for all breech babies... Speculation on my part, but it seems plausible.

I hadn't realised Tink had been a natural birth - I'm glad it panned out for you both. We get so caught up in the "ifs" and "buts" and medical advances (which do save lives) it becomes easy to forget that women are designed to birth babies and babies are designed to be born and, for the most part, that will happen if its allowed to.

No, Tink was CS with GA because she was footling, 2cm to fully dilated in an hour and my first had been rapid. I think we've spoken about Tink's delivery before, I had to have an extension into the upper segment leaving me with an upside down T. I'm on the NCT CS mailing group and getting some confidence from there to ask about a VBAC.

My first was at 20 weeks (warning, it's weepy) they did a scan to see what was happening but could only see the head which he was puzzled about, got the speculum out and jumped back when he lifted my skirt (I'd thrown the sheet on the floor so only had my skirt covering me) as I'd started to deliver the water.

Sorry for bringing it all up again. I'm sure we had talked about Tink before, but I hadn't appreciated you'd had any other births, or such a difficult experience first time round . Congrats and fingers crossed for this time round, though .

That's ok, I'm rather candid about it all, I think when you've been through things you can sometimes lose the emotion and seriousness of things.

Hoping they'll be OK with me going for a VBAC, but I don't think it's likely to happen as I'm more than likely going to have a premature baby, she'll probably be in the wrong position and I've had rapid deliveries both times so they'll want to do another section and my back is still bad so even if I haven't just taken my Heparin I don't think they'll risk an epidural. But I would like to know if I have to have a section it's because it's the only option not because they're covering themselves with my unusual scar.