Baby flipped breech at 37, ugh!

[Anonymous]

Baby has been head down for weeks only to flip breech this week. It’s my 4th pregnancy, and I’ve had 3 vaginal births already. Really hoping to avoid a c-section. Is ECV at 38 too late?

Any ECV tips solicited. I am freaking out. Any chance she’ll flip back herself??

[Anonymous]

Things are looser if it’s your 4th. I’d ask for an ecv even if they usually consider it too late. Obviously there’s room since she did it herself.

[Anonymous]

I had a baby still breech at 37 weeks, had an ECV scheduled, and at my 38 week appointment, two days before ECV, baby was head down. Very much still a possibility! Good luck!

[Anonymous]

OP here, did you all do terbutaline and the epidural for the versions or no? I’d prefer to avoid the terbutaline if possible (long story)…but otherwise want to give myself the best shot possible. Opinions solicited.

[Anonymous]

Oh man so frustrating. Maybe acupuncture….I've heard several moms having good experience with their babies flipping.

[Anonymous]

I was told that the epidural gives them the ability to push harder, so more likely to be successful. And ECV at 38 weeks can work, if you'd had successful vaginal births in the past, baby isn't big, and you have sufficient fluid. Worth a try!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here, did you all do terbutaline and the epidural for the versions or no? I’d prefer to avoid the terbutaline if possible (long story)…but otherwise want to give myself the best shot possible. Opinions solicited.

I got nothing and it hurt like hell. Actually I wanted something but my provider said no. Same level pain as unmedicated childbirth (long story). But worth it and I’d do it again if I had to.

[Anonymous]

Try spinning babies?

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Anonymous wrote:I was told that the epidural gives them the ability to push harder, so more likely to be successful. And ECV at 38 weeks can work, if you'd had successful vaginal births in the past, baby isn't big, and you have sufficient fluid. Worth a try!

Haha my provider pushed hard without it and didn’t seem bothered! (Not local, don’t worry). My baby was huge and fluid in the low side but successful vaginals in the past so they decided to go for it. I really didn’t want a section.

[Anonymous]

My sil did ECV, it worked,, baby then immediately flipped back....

But then flipped again before a healthy vaginal birth

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Try spinning babies?

This plus ice pack on the head
Also chiropractor

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Try spinning babies?

This plus ice pack on the head
Also chiropractor

Ice pack on the head, heat on the bum.

[Anonymous]

Do and read everything online about what you can do about it - spinning babies, hot and cold, Webster technique… whatever. Realize there isn’t actually good research about it, but if you’re the type (like I was), you’ll feel better about doing everything you “could” do.

You can try ECV, if your practitioner feels there’s a value. They all have their own cutoffs and requirements. There’s some evidence it’s better if you can get medicated during (look into it), so if that’s an option, I’d do it. Mine was not medicated for pain or relaxation, but I would still recommend, again, if yiu wanted to do everything you could.

That said, I can think of worse things than the amazing planned c section I had. It was relaxed, funny, and joyful. My silly breech kid is still looking at the world in her own stubborn upside down way (or as we joke, right side up) 7 years later. She was never in danger, and it was a really good birth story. Not the one I thought I’d pick, but it was and is, our story.

That said, your kid will flip or won’t. It’s not your first, and there’s still time. Do all the things in your bandwidth if yiu have the bandwidth to do them.

Plan for the route you’re not most excited about, and know it will be fine either way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do and read everything online about what you can do about it - spinning babies, hot and cold, Webster technique… whatever. Realize there isn’t actually good research about it, but if you’re the type (like I was), you’ll feel better about doing everything you “could” do.

You can try ECV, if your practitioner feels there’s a value. They all have their own cutoffs and requirements. There’s some evidence it’s better if you can get medicated during (look into it), so if that’s an option, I’d do it. Mine was not medicated for pain or relaxation, but I would still recommend, again, if yiu wanted to do everything you could.

That said, I can think of worse things than the amazing planned c section I had. It was relaxed, funny, and joyful. My silly breech kid is still looking at the world in her own stubborn upside down way (or as we joke, right side up) 7 years later. She was never in danger, and it was a really good birth story. Not the one I thought I’d pick, but it was and is, our story.

That said, your kid will flip or won’t. It’s not your first, and there’s still time. Do all the things in your bandwidth if yiu have the bandwidth to do them.

Plan for the route you’re not most excited about, and know it will be fine either way.

I think this may be the best, most practical child advice I’ve ever read. Applicable to almost every situation.

[Anonymous]

I didn't find out mine flipped back to breach until I was at the hospital for an induction at 39 weeks. They offered ECV then, but I didn't want it and just went for the c-section, which worked out really well for me.