Transverse Baby, 36 weeks - Others had this experience?

[Anonymous]

My daughter was transverse at 36 weeks, breech at 38, and head down for birth (c-section). I am a heavy sleeper and she must have done her turning then.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm a scientist and picked an OB that practices evidence based medicine. He is of the opinion that versions aren't worth it. He is a relatively young doctor so he asked his older colleagues (a large network) who was comfortable and had a good success rate. Virtually no one answered in the affirmative and one doctor stopped doing them altogether when a baby died as a result. I was like, yeah, no thanks.

OP here - yes, I've heard things like that in the scary part of the internet. Not helpful for my brain. I'm not totally sure I'll go through with the version. I may just schedule a c-section for 39 weeks. I'm talking to the doctor at my practice who does them on Monday to make a decision. I'm fine with having a c-section, if a bit scared as this is my first, my husband won't be allowed in the OR with me, and we, obviously due to COVID, will need to navigate recovery alone. I'm hoping that, if we want to, we're allowed to stay the normal course in Sibley to get some extra help recovering/learning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a scientist and picked an OB that practices evidence based medicine. He is of the opinion that versions aren't worth it. He is a relatively young doctor so he asked his older colleagues (a large network) who was comfortable and had a good success rate. Virtually no one answered in the affirmative and one doctor stopped doing them altogether when a baby died as a result. I was like, yeah, no thanks.

OP here - yes, I've heard things like that in the scary part of the internet. Not helpful for my brain. I'm not totally sure I'll go through with the version. I may just schedule a c-section for 39 weeks. I'm talking to the doctor at my practice who does them on Monday to make a decision. I'm fine with having a c-section, if a bit scared as this is my first, my husband won't be allowed in the OR with me, and we, obviously due to COVID, will need to navigate recovery alone. I'm hoping that, if we want to, we're allowed to stay the normal course in Sibley to get some extra help recovering/learning.

I was one of the PPs - my version happened at GW and while it wasn't successful (and many aren't) the baby and I were both monitored carefully throughout, we did an ultrasound before so we knew things like where the cord was, etc (and it was not a terrible or particularly painful experience for me). From everything I read, the factors most correlated with success are 1. if you've had a baby before (not in my control), 2. if the baby has been in other positions during other points in the pregnancy (mine hadn't) and 3. how many versions the doctor does. Someone who doesn't do many is unlikely to be successful and I wouldn't bother. But GW does a ton of them and many successfully, so I felt it was worth a shot.

If I had it to do again for my first baby, I'd still probably still do it, even though it didn't work - I was just in a mental place where I needed to have tried everything to have peace with the section, so the ECV gave me that. If I found myself in the same position with a hypothetical second baby, now knowing that a c-section was also just fine, I'd have no regrets at all going straight to the section. Either is a completely reasonable choice.

[Anonymous]

OP Here -- PP - Thanks so much for sharing your previous experience and insights! They are so helpful to consider. It's good to have all perspectives.

[Anonymous]

I've taught yoga for 30 years and the poses that turned babies were just like the ones pictured in spinning babies. 100% success rate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm a scientist and picked an OB that practices evidence based medicine. He is of the opinion that versions aren't worth it. He is a relatively young doctor so he asked his older colleagues (a large network) who was comfortable and had a good success rate. Virtually no one answered in the affirmative and one doctor stopped doing them altogether when a baby died as a result. I was like, yeah, no thanks.

Uhh, okay. I’m also a scientist and #actually the “evidence based medicine” approach is to do the version. Read Cochrane reviews.
The “ask around a bunch of random doctors I know” is obviously a biased sample and usually leads to “one person I know had a baby die and so I never did it again,” the non-EBM approach...

[Anonymous]

I had an oblique baby. Sibley doc said they hadn’t seen one in that position in a long time. Every nurse got a feel to learn. After nearly 18 hours a new nurse came in and she got on my bed and did a version. I passed out and woke up and baby came out sunny side up about an hour later. Thank good ness for that nurse. Baby had a lot of broken blood vessels (I can’t remember the real name) across the face and head for a few months from the position and delivery.

Good luck!

[Anonymous]

Baby #3 breech, did ECV at 36 weeks, delivered vag at 41.2 weeks.
Baby #4 breech, offered ECV, said hell no, baby slid into transverse at about 28 weeks and stayed there. Opted for c/s at 39 weeks. All went well!

[Anonymous]

DC had what they called an “unstable lie” and alternated between transverse, breech, and head down when they first started checking the position at 34 weeks. Baby was breech at my 37 week appointment so was scheduled for an ECV only to find that baby had flipped head down overnight. The OBs then gave me a belly binder to help hold baby in position until I was induced at 39 weeks. Had baby flipped back, the plan was going to be to do an ECV and then immediately induce if successful (or do a c section if not). OBs were fairly confident that an ECV would have been successful given how much baby had moved and that it also wasn’t my first pregnancy.

[Anonymous]

I am glad I found this thread. I am currently 36 weeks +4 days. Baby is transverse and I am hoping baby turns on its on. I will try spinning babies too. Does any one tried acupuncture and if so, anyone you can recommend?

Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good luck OP! Fair warning - the lower part of my ribs is legitimately like 3 inches wider than pre-pregnancy! She's worth it though!

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am glad I found this thread. I am currently 36 weeks +4 days. Baby is transverse and I am hoping baby turns on its on. I will try spinning babies too. Does any one tried acupuncture and if so, anyone you can recommend?

Thanks!

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[Anonymous]

I had an oblique 9lb+ baby. Didn’t know until week 41 when my water broke. Baby had not been in that position before. Drs tried everything to move baby. Eventually a nurse came on, got on top of me (I swear) and did a version and baby flipped an hour or so later. DC came out with bruises on the head, eyelids and back of neck and also came out sunny side up. No C-Section but I had a 103 fever by the time DC was born so we were split up for a couple of hours. DH was able to be with DC the whole time. They whisked the baby away “to do stuff,” as DH said because of the sunny side up labor. I barely remember anything except that no amount of epidural could hide the pain of the in-labor version. That was our last kid. Baby’s skin bruises took one month to heal. Good luck!