Spinning babies is a good website to check out and as one other person said accupuncture is great also. Moxibustion sticks can be used an certain points on the feet (they dont touch your feet - just close by) and warmth onthe points activates the uterus, and gets the baby moving, thne you can get into certain positon to encourage the baby to turn. Moxibustion has shown nuerous time to be more effective (and certainly safer) than OB trying to manually turn the baby.
RE c/s - not as many OBs are willing (or very experienced) at vaginal breech birth, so if it is something you want you need to do your research and get an OB who is experienced. Yes you can refuse to have surgery, do you necessarily want to have a v. breech with inexperienced staff attending?
The only hospital I know that do enough of them for me to be comfortable with is in NSW.
I wouldn't be worried at this stage. They are often still breech at 32-34weeks and I have even heard of them turning at the onset of labour. We have had women booked for C/S and then presented for the surgery on the day and bub has being head down. Obviously this is not very common but it can happen that they turn at the last minute. They usally don't book you in for a C/S for breech till 36-37weeks. Hope your princess turns for you.
I know how you feel. Baby was breech @28wks. I know it has room to move cause it was head down a few days earlier.
My ob won't do a breech vaginal birth and i wouldn't try argue with him about it personally. That's the way he is, slightly catious. I respect that he is catious about breech as i am pretty sure that he had an unexpected death during one. Which was also a work college's baby so it hit him pretty hard.
I think there is more risk of cord wrapping etc during birth if it's breech.
While i am not really worried yet and he won't be till 34wks. The only thing is i went into labour at 35wks with my first so i am kinda expecting an earlier than due date baby. I am also short so i am worried about room if it doesn't move soon. With my first preg it was bwt 30-35wks that the baby grew the most and she was also 1/5 engaged from 28wks. I was expecting an nice normal size baby 7pds or so from my 30wk scan. I got that 7pd baby at 35wks not 40wks! I always thought she simply ran out of room/my body knew that baby was at max for a vag delivery. (no gd or anything either)
My appts have been bumped up to 2wkly slightly ahead of schedule so i can have extra scan at 32wks to see where baby is. It's still breech atm though.
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