sideways breech?

SoonToBeMrsDTS · February 2012

At my 20w u/s they said that the baby was sideways but not to worry about it. At 24w I was in the hospital for monitoring because of contractions and they did another us/ and baby was still sideways. I'll be 30w on Saturday and she is still in the same position. I mentioned it to my OB on Monday and she just kind of raised her eyebrows and said we'd talk about it in two weeks and not to stress about it right now.

It is super uncomfortable that she's positioned this way but more than that, I'm worried that she's not going to want to put her head where it's supposed to go. On top of everything else, I have a superficial blood clot in my leg so I'm supposed to spend most of my time with my feet elevated in compression socks until it passed and I haven't been able to exercise for 10+ weeks because of risk of PTL.

Does anyone have any stories to share about their baby moving to right position from being transverse? I was telling a woman at church about it on Sunday and she said "oh yeah, my first one was like that from 25 weeks on and I ended up needing a c-section." That was not what I wanted to hear!! I have checked spinningbabies.com and I can't try most of their suggestions until I can be on my feet a little more.

Sofka · February 2012

I am sorry, how stressful and uncomfortable! I don't have any experience but just wanted to say that if you do end up with a c-section, it's not that bad! I had a great experience with 2 c-sections (1st - emergency, 2nd - scheduled) and my recovery was fast and fantastic. I know it's not the way you want to deliver your baby but really, a c-s is not that bad. I hope this puts your mind at ease a little bit.

Useonfire · February 2012

Yep, DS was transverse from I think 30 weeks onward and never budged

I had a c/s. This time around, my LO is head down (at least last we checked) so I'm eligible for a VBAC. I'm a big fan of the spinning babies website that the PP mentioned (though it didn't work for my DS).

WinesNotWhines · February 2012

I did not experience that myself, but I know people who had success getting their babies to turn through acupuncture and a specific chiropractic technique. There are chiros who have a very good success rate, and I don't think what they do is invasive at all, but I admit I have not looked at it in detail. Good luck!

LindseyJW · February 2012

acupuncture, chiropractic and hypnosis are all proven to turn babies into a vertex position, with better and more lasting success rates than manual version.

to the extent that you can, pelvic rocks, sitting forward with your belly low between your hips and tailor sitting may help.

DCtoLowcountry · February 2012

FWIW this little one was transverse at 20w and by 32w he was head down. Good luck!

pixieprincss · February 2012

My doctor successfully moved my transverse LO at 37 weeks with a version. I had a weird pelvic thing going on that enouraged LO to stay in non-optimal positions.

Before the version we tried gentler ways to get LO to flip: moxibustion, all of the spinningbabies.com tricks, doing hot and cold, music and light, going swimming and doing the flutterkick, doing handstands in the water, spending time in the inversion position, etc. We were planning on the Webster technique with a chiro if it didn't work. Also, if it didn't work, we planned to wait for labor to start rather than scheduling a c-section to give LO as much time as possible to turn (provided we were staying healthy) and let early contractions perhaps motivate him, etc.

You are still so early that I would expect your LO to move. Think positive and do the positioning tricks.

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