I have a friend who had her 1st baby in Germany in frank breech, vaginally. It is the safest of the breech deliveries (although all are possible vaginally, some are riskier) because the hips+thighs folded together are the same size as the head, and once they have passed through the likelihood of the head getting stuck (which is the problem which can occur with full and footling breeches) is pretty much eliminated. My friend had to drive 250km in labour to get to an ob who would do the delivery vaginally but she didn't even tear during the birth. Bubs was fine, her hips were fine, and though her legs were and still are very flexible there was no problem swaddling her right from day 1.

Talk to your ob, tell him you should like to deliver vaginally and ask to be referred to someone who is trained in it and comfortable with it. If there is no-one who can do it for you don't panic yet, keep doing inversions and if you can, try moxibustion. I have heard handstands in a swimming pool have worked well! Keep trying even after your surgery is booked - you never know. And if you have to have the section, do it with a light heart hun - you will have done everything possible to get your vaginal birth and fate or your baby will have decided how it has to be. Sometimes things happen and we can't see why, but later on it's fitting, kwim? I was a planned c-section after an emergency c-section (in 1980, no VBAC, and single layer suturing was still normal) and my mum always used to joke that i gave her the least trouble in birth and in life (she was 43 and had a heart complaint and wouldn't have relished a (7th!) labour anyway). to you, it's hard when life pushes us where we wouldn't choose to go.

Bx