Breech baby tips?

[Anonymous]

Title says it all but I’m about 36 weeks and have a frank breech baby. Was hoping for another vaginal birth but my doctor wants to schedule me for a C-section. He also wants to try a version at 37 weeks but I am on the fence as everyone has told me they are painful and not that likely to work. Anyone have experience with any of this? Or any tips to get baby to turn?

[Anonymous]

Version was definitely painful and not successful for me, but I didn’t regret trying.

Good luck. Not what I’d anticipated, but there’s something to be said for a scheduled birth.

[Anonymous]

I had an ECV and went through labor and my kid flipped back a but so I had to have a c section anyway. If I had to do it over again I'd just do the c section to be perfectly honest about it.

[Anonymous]

I was scheduled for a c-section (my second) before I even found out my baby was breech. I did nothing and she stayed breech.

It took a couple weeks for her legs to truly drop. Sort of like a Christmas tree brought home after being tied up. It was pretty cute. The pediatrician had a standard “breech baby protocol” of an ultrasound at twoish months and X-ray at six months to clear her of any hip issues. All good!

[Anonymous]

Have you looked at spinning babies?

https://www.spinningbabies.com/

It’s been a while but both my kids were breech at 36 weeks and flipped. I tried to implement some of the ideas from spinning babies - like leaning forward and letting my belly hang, lots of swimming (I didn’t lie upside down on an ironing board or anything too crazy). My kids may have flipped anyway but it’s something to try.

With my second, I went in for ECV and cesarean at 39 weeks and ultrasound confirmed he had flipped, so they switched to induction (I was over 40, conservative practice). He then flipped again and flipped back! Ended up with a vaginal delivery but it was kind of wild.

[Anonymous]

What was your first baby? Did you deliver vaginally? My kids were late turners.

I know people say you can feel when they turn, but I didn’t. Obviously could feel kicks in my ribs after that though.

[Anonymous]

Tried a version and would not recommend it. It was excruciatingly painful and did not work. As it turned out, DC was pretty tangled in the umbilical cord (which even had a knot in it).

My c-section went smoothly. My first DC was born vaginally, and I found the c-section to be easier all around, recovery included.

[Anonymous]

My first was breech at 36 weeks (now he's mid-20s, but I remember as if it were yesterday), and what I did, all from the internet:
- went swimming and stood on my head a lot
-put headphones with soothing music low on my pregnant belly
-shined a flashlight up my vagina

No idea of it was any of those things or just nature but he turned and I gave birth vaginally

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have you looked at spinning babies?

https://www.spinningbabies.com/

It’s been a while but both my kids were breech at 36 weeks and flipped. I tried to implement some of the ideas from spinning babies - like leaning forward and letting my belly hang, lots of swimming (I didn’t lie upside down on an ironing board or anything too crazy). My kids may have flipped anyway but it’s something to try.

With my second, I went in for ECV and cesarean at 39 weeks and ultrasound confirmed he had flipped, so they switched to induction (I was over 40, conservative practice). He then flipped again and flipped back! Ended up with a vaginal delivery but it was kind of wild.

I will say I tried everything on the lists of how to flip a breech baby. I tried swimming, handstands in the pool, lying upside down on an ironing board tilted with my feet up, I saw a chiropractor, cold pads, headphones, all that and nothing worked. The ECV was incredibly painful and failed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Have you looked at spinning babies?

https://www.spinningbabies.com/

It’s been a while but both my kids were breech at 36 weeks and flipped. I tried to implement some of the ideas from spinning babies - like leaning forward and letting my belly hang, lots of swimming (I didn’t lie upside down on an ironing board or anything too crazy). My kids may have flipped anyway but it’s something to try.

With my second, I went in for ECV and cesarean at 39 weeks and ultrasound confirmed he had flipped, so they switched to induction (I was over 40, conservative practice). He then flipped again and flipped back! Ended up with a vaginal delivery but it was kind of wild.

I will say I tried everything on the lists of how to flip a breech baby. I tried swimming, handstands in the pool, lying upside down on an ironing board tilted with my feet up, I saw a chiropractor, cold pads, headphones, all that and nothing worked. The ECV was incredibly painful and failed.

I see I'm not the only one who found it painful---pretty sure it's the worse pain I've ever endured (certainly the worst I've voluntarily endured). My OB failed to mention the pain part to me, and I resented her for that.

[Anonymous]

Just get the c section. I've heard nothing but horror stories about versions and they're not even guaranteed to work. A scheduled section is (generally) a pretty easy birth, all options considered. Recovery is tolerable to better than expected.

[Anonymous]

If the kid doesn't turn, it will depend on your birthing hips and whether you want to go through a major event.

A C-section is likely to be better for everyone - the mom, the kid, the surgical staff.

[Anonymous]

My version worked. But yes it was as painful as a natural childbirth. Honestly maybe even worse. Worth it for me though. Go to someone who has a high success rate. My doc was pretty confident. (Not local sorry)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What was your first baby? Did you deliver vaginally? My kids were late turners.

I know people say you can feel when they turn, but I didn’t. Obviously could feel kicks in my ribs after that though.

OP here: she was a vaginal birth and was head down pretty much the entire pregnancy. So this one has been very different!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have you looked at spinning babies?

https://www.spinningbabies.com/

It’s been a while but both my kids were breech at 36 weeks and flipped. I tried to implement some of the ideas from spinning babies - like leaning forward and letting my belly hang, lots of swimming (I didn’t lie upside down on an ironing board or anything too crazy). My kids may have flipped anyway but it’s something to try.

With my second, I went in for ECV and cesarean at 39 weeks and ultrasound confirmed he had flipped, so they switched to induction (I was over 40, conservative practice). He then flipped again and flipped back! Ended up with a vaginal delivery but it was kind of wild.

OP here: I will try this, thank you! Also the story with your second is wild!!