When to start worrying about breech baby?

[Anonymous]

I tried everything starting at 30 weeks with child one (inversions, cold peas, orange juice, vag music, diving into a pool, moxibustion, acupuncture, and finally an ECV where they got her half way and she sprung right back into her original position). I had a c-section and when they pull her out they counted the number of times the cord was wrapped around her neck. It's a good thing that ECV didn't stick.

With #2, I was in a different practice and they did an ultrasound and discovered that my uterus is shaped in such a manner that encourages babies to stay stuck upside down. I didn't bother trying to turn that one, just went ahead and scheduled the C.

All that to say: consider that there is a reason that your baby is breech and should perhaps stay that way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am 30 weeks pregnant. My baby has been breech since an ultrasound at 24 weeks. I know most babies turn on their own, but when do I need to start worrying that my baby won't? Should I start doing the "spinning babies" exercises, or give it time?
And on another, completely ignorant note, why WOULD baby turn? I mean, if he's comfy in there, with his head up, does he just know he's supposed to go head down at some point?

Yes, he knows he is supposed to go head down. But also, a breech baby isn't the end of the world. My planned C section was about a thousand times easier in terms of recovery than my prolonged vaginal labor with my first.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At 30 weeks my baby was breech and everyone said not to worry. At 32 weeks and 34 weeks same thing. My doc said babies flip late all the time. I waited.

Well at 36 weeks I go to my OB and the baby was still breech and my OB was clearly nervous, wanted me to schedule a csection just in case, and urged me to see a specialist for an external version, as well as an acupuncturist for moxibustion.

The specialist OB would not do a version because I had an anterior placenta and the acupuncturist basically said she would do what she could but it was really late in the game. I did inverts and cat cows like crazy. At 40 weeks I had a c section due to baby still in complete breech position.

Bottom line is don't wait to be proactive. Start what you can now - inverts, cat cows, sitting on your core ball, moxibustion, etc. Who knows if my son would have flipped, but I had started earlier I would have spared myself and DH a lot of last minute scrambling and my own second guessing.

I am in this exact same position currently at 36 weeks except the thing is, I HAVE been doing all of those things since 30 weeks and STILL nothing so sometimes...they just won't turn no matter how hard/much you try. This is the most frustrating thing to go through week after week of them saying "don't worry, we still have time" and the weeks go by and nothing. Every night I've laid in a breech tilt position with a bag of frozen peas on top, a heating pad on the bottom, ear buds with music near my pelvis, a flash light down there while DH did moxibustion, ALL simultaneously...I've been going to a chiro and acupuncture weekly. 4 weeks later and nothing.Midwife is NOW starting to throw out "csection, induction, ECV"...I think I've cried every day now that this reality has hit me. She is right, do not wait! Try everything you can as soon as you can, best of luck!

You are making yourself go crazy over something that you can't really control and doesn't really matter. Enjoy your pregnancy as much as you can, relax, and get ready for your baby to come. You will look back in this in 5 years and be like, why was I going insane over this?