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Breech

ohashletohashlet member
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Baby has been head down since 24 weeks, and last night I'm about 95% sure he flipped. Earlier in the evening I had a series of really strong movements and when I watched my belly it definitely appeared to look like what it would if he'd flipped. I was also up from about 1-2 this morning (regular pregnant insomnia) feeling him hiccup way up in my ribs. I even woke my husband up and he agreed.

Besides acupuncture and spinningbabies.com, anyone else know of anything I can try? I'll be calling the midwife when it's a more reasonable hour on the west coast. 

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  • honkytonk_kidhonkytonk_kid member

    Boo =( I'm sorry to hear that.

    I've heard good things about the Webster technique. Hope something works for you!

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  • futuremrscroccofuturemrscrocco

    That sucks!

    A chiropractor that does Webster's technique

    Spend lots of time on your hands and knees to pelvic thrusts

    A frozen bag of veggies/fruit/something at the top of your belly multiple times a day 

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  • ohashletohashlet member

    They're doing paperwork and meetings today so I'm stopping off at the office before going home and she's going to check. She gave me the number for their preferred acupuncturist and recommended Webster, so I'll be doing that at my weekly chiro appointment (luckily mine is trained in it).

    This is such a bummer. 

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  • mesrmesr
    i propped my butt up on a stack of pillows for 20-30 minutes every night for three weeks straight to get this baby to turn.  it worked!  i had to chew a lot of tums beforehand, because the reflux was wretched... 
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  • tchubirubitchubirubi member

    My baby turned breech around the 30th week (I think that was when it happened, though I only found out for sure on my 36th week - when she turned, I thought she was just stretching really hard or something... lol)

    I did the exercises, acupuncture, moxibustion, homeopathy (pulsatilla ch6), meditation and visualisation and meditation to the hypnobabies track on turning breech babies.

    I did get my baby "dislodged" from my pelvis and she turned transverse, which gave us hope for a while (doc said it is rare for babies to stay breech when they go full term, because it is really unconfortable), but then she went back to "kinda" breech (sitting diagonally in the womb). She did however continue to move a lot, which gave me the impression that she really wanted to turn but was having a hard time doing it. That made me worry because it was only going to get harder (she is growing by the minute); by the way she was moving I felt that if she could have turned she would have done so already.

    So I had an external cephalic version. I was reluctant to try it at first, having heard so many scary things about it. But the doc who did it is totally kick-ass. She looked at my ultrassound pics and said that the placenta, the cord and the baby herself were all in optimal positions and that her having being transverse recently meant that we still had some room to manouver, even though my amniotic fluid was on the low side. So she proposed we tried a milder form of version, virtually risk-free (the usual version would have had to be done in a hospital, because of risks involved - which are few and low with a good professional, but still...). It was basically just a gentle massage with acupuncture at the same time - no anaesthetics. And it worked!

    So don't worry about it. I know that is difficult but keep in mind that the odds are that she will indeed turn on her own and that, even if she doesn't, there are other options to consider, some more invasive, some less, but it is going to be ok anyway. Even if all else fails, there is the possibility of having a natural pelvic birth (some docs, like the one mentioned above, specialize on that). Here is a video of a natural birth of twins, one of them being breech :

    https://mais.uol.com.br/view/bo4b4rc5be42/parto-normal-de-gemios-0402E0B973A6?types=A

    And if that still seems too scary, c-section is always an option, and will certainly prove to be efficient even if less desirable.

    Sorry. Maybe you are not even that worried about it and I got all carried away - it's just that all that is very recent to me (and I was distraught over it at first) and so many women just go straight to a cesarean when there are other options.

    Anyway, good luck! Hoping for a voluntary flip!

    All the best!

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