STMs- breech baby, flipping and anyone still deliver vaginally?

JenBee74 · February 2013

I posted a few days ago about Mixibustion. I am 34 weeks and baby is still frank breech. We are planning a home birth so I am starting to freak that this baby might not turn. We have been doing all the baby turning exercises and inversions, just started acupuncture and moxibustion too. Our next step is trying a version to manually flip baby. If you had a late breech baby, when did baby finally flip and what worked for you? We met with our midwife yesterday and in that conversation she said that if baby hasn't flipped by 37 weeks we may want to consider finding an OB that will do a vaginal breech birth. Has anyone had a vaginal breech birth and what was your experience? Our midwife may still consider a hime birth but she has done 17 and apparantly 3 of them required major ressusitation so we have sime things to think about. I'm just looking for encouragement. Thanks in advance.

JenBee74 · February 2013

Ugh, sorry for the run on paragraph and misspelling of moxibustion. I am on my iPad and have to use the HTML feature which doesn't seem to like paragraphs or allow me to go back and edit. Frustrating..

aylafsu88 · February 2013

I do not have any personal experience but this did happen to a couple I meet and became friends with in our Bradley class. It was their second child and LO was breech up until 38 weeks. The mom was freaking out a bit and ready to try an external inversion. She had some serious cramping one night and thought she might be in labor. The cramping was not time able and really sporadic. After a few hours she felt fine and went to bed. She had an appointment with her MW a couple of days later and found out LO was heads down. She thinks LO turned that night when she was having all of the cramping. She finally went into labor at 41.5 weeks. Our Bradley instructor told the class that babies can turn at any time it is just much harder when they are bigger. Try to stay positive and I hope LO will turn for you.

AmyRI · February 2013

My 2nd LO was transverse at 32 weeks, I saw a chiro who did the Webster technique and she flipped vertex at 33 weeks. She remained vertex until sometime in the last 4 days of my pregnancy, but we didn't find out she was breech (and she had flipped to frank breech), until I was 7cm.

I did deliver vaginally thanks to a wonderful on-call OB, as my midwife wasn't trained to deliver breech babies. My very long birth story is here, if you want to read it:

https://community.thebump.com/cs/ks/forums/thread/71296329.aspx

I had a good experience. Had I known she was breech, I would have tried the ECV. It was an easy decision for us to try for the breech birth because I had no risk factors. If it had been my first baby, I think it would have been a harder decision. I'd wait until closer to your due date and actually talk to the OB first - get a size estimate of baby and see about your pelvis size to make sure the OB thinks there will be enough room. And I'd definitely do it in a hospital so if baby gets stuck you have a much higher chance of getting s/he out in time to not cause permanent damage. They had a whole second delivery team scrubbed and waiting for me in the OR in case something went wrong, and that was comforting (and terrifying, but hopefully you know what I mean...).

Any specific questions about the breech delivery?

JenBee74 · February 2013

Thank you for the responses. AmyRi, I tried clicking on your link for your birth story but it didn't work. I saw a chiro today who specializes in the Webster technique, so I am now adding that to my baby flipping arsenal too.

ldpm · February 2013

I know a lot of mothers who had vaginal breech, including at home. The midwife or doc really needs to know how to handle it. Most don't which is why it becomes a risk. My sister's babies were born in Asia and intervention was not used. She expected to have a vaginal breech birth but both times her baby flipped the day before labor started.

lalafirefly27 · February 2013

My friends baby was breach up her water broke and turned within a couple hours heads down.

AmyRI · February 2013

JenBee74:
Thank you for the responses. AmyRi, I tried clicking on your link for your birth story but it didn't work. I saw a chiro today who specializes in the Webster technique, so I am now adding that to my baby flipping arsenal too.

I think I fixed it - if it doesn't work, try copying and pasting the URL.

JenBee74 · February 2013

AmyRi - I loved reading your birth story. Thank you for sharing, I found it very encouraging. My midwife does know an OB who will deliver breech and the hospital is very natural birth friendly so if it comes down to it I know we have good options. The last two days there has been a lot of movement so I am hopeful my little one makes the full turn.

LaurelBee · February 2013

I had a version performed at 39w (baby was vertex up until 38w) and I was able to have my vaginal HB at 41w 3d. GL mama!

Fionnadean1017 · February 2013

I had a version done at 39 weeks and had a vaginal, medfree delivery of a 9pounder a week later! I had tried everything you've mentioned chiropractor, inversions, not the acupuncture though and nothing worked for me. The version was not bad at all. Lots of pressure, but not painful.

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