Thanks ladies for your posts!

Trillion thanks for the links, very interesting and useful

Bugalug for your story - was glad to hear you were fine with BF afterwards

Jellybean for your birth story - was your bub a breech too?

Purplemamma you have given me hope mine will still turn - do you have any links to stats? Everything I read didn't sound good for vaginal breech, so I would love to read something that indicates VB is safer than CS for breech.

Ellibam - good point about going into labour first and the benefits of the hormones, I hadn't thought of that..My sister won't be there but my Mum and DH will. Mum was also at her breech birth - mum is very instinctive and has very positive feelings about her own births, she'll be calm and reassuring.

Mantaray, thanks for the link, what an amazing guy hey!

Rayray, I must say I'm not totally sure where my OB is coming from. She discussed the study regarding safety of breech birth but then said the validity of it is questionable because most of the participating hospitals were in South America. She said she'll do a VB for breech if asked by parents because of risk of being sued if something goes wrong. I always get the impression she thinks I'm worrying far too much about things (probably true, but hey I'm a beginner!) and she seems very unfazed about everything.

I'm sure she is very skilled - she is the head of Maternal Fetal medical unit at Monash Medical Centre and used to be the president of RANZCOG - she would have seen it all and then some! I guess in the next appointment I'll go through all possible options and pros and cons for each with her.

Also at the hospital prenatal workshop the nurse said that the automatic CS for breech policy at Monash is changing, and they are starting to do more breech vaginal births again.

If anyone knows of any studies with statistics, other than the South American one, I'd love to read it!