Manually flipping a breech baby - Page 3

Lizzie K · Mar 31st, 2012, 17:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Kat541

What's a pit?

Also, I've noticed a trend on A Baby Story that once a mom's labor goes over 12 hours, they talk her into a section, or some pitocin. They are always saying that the labor is just not progressing as fast as they would like. My mom said she had contractions for over 70 hours with me before I was ready to be pulled out with the forceps. Now days, they would have long before put her out of her misery with a section. I did end up with neck issues in the form of having the cartilage between my 3rd and 4th vertibrae diminished, but I was not breech.

Pitocin

Kat541 · Mar 31st, 2012, 18:01 PM

Duh, sheesh!

Kat541 · Apr 5th, 2012, 12:49 PM

BnB posted an article about this:
http://www.momtastic.com/parenting/f...phalic-version

Sciencegal · Apr 5th, 2012, 22:33 PM

My first was a breech. I opted for the manual turning. They monitored the baby very closely in the process. It didn't hurt very much, but my daughter went into distress in the process and we had an immediate c-section. Unfortunately, I had a bad reaction to anesthesia and developed a spinal headache. Horrible experience.... I definitely want a vbac this time, but not sure if my hospital does it...

Bats11 · Apr 6th, 2012, 01:54 AM

We all learn from our own experiences, i personally prefer vaginal birth, i was lucky to have given birth both times vaginally, but if for what ever reason i had to have a cs, im just glad its available, safety of our babies comes first.

katealim · Apr 7th, 2012, 11:21 AM

My second daughter was delivered naturally as a breech baby....I def. wouldn't recommend it!!!

thestarsfall · Apr 7th, 2012, 22:28 PM

My mom told me this story about how one of the ladies she knew when living in Peru had a breech baby and the midwife told the lady to run around the table clockwise 8 times to turn it...and it worked! lol.

polaris · Apr 12th, 2012, 15:09 PM

My son was breech. I tried ECV but it didn't work - the doctor thought that the position of the placenta was in his way and stopping him from turning. I didn't find the ECV particularly painful although definitely uncomfortable. I had a planned C-section which thankfully went very smoothly and I had a very good recovery. I was devastated at the time but I do think that it was the right decision. My OH's brother was an undiagnosed breech delivery and he was oxygen-deprived during the birth and has very severe cerebral palsy and is wheelchair bound and cannot feed himself or speak. So for me, a C-section seemed like the safer option for baby even though I was really upset at the time and it wasn't the birth that I would have wanted.

Quackquack99 · Apr 19th, 2012, 10:37 AM

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Originally Posted by chuck

Breech is another variation of normal, people have become sacred of it because so few practitioners will advocate it is being normal but with different risks to baby. They opt for CS because to the practitioners it seems more controlled.

I had a young registrar who did the c section, she told me she could do a frank breech vaginal birth but didn't want to risk a footling breech. I admired her honesty. But breech birth are very possible. I've watched a few online x

Quackquack99 · Apr 19th, 2012, 10:40 AM

The only reason why I wouldn't accept an ecv is because my uterus is half the size of a normal uterus and it very unlikely to work x

Mar 31st, 2012, 18:01 PM	#22
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Apr 5th, 2012, 22:33 PM	#24
Sciencegal Pregnant (Expecting) Active BnB Member Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Tennessee Posts: 371	My first was a breech. I opted for the manual turning. They monitored the baby very closely in the process. It didn't hurt very much, but my daughter went into distress in the process and we had an immediate c-section. Unfortunately, I had a bad reaction to anesthesia and developed a spinal headache. Horrible experience.... I definitely want a vbac this time, but not sure if my hospital does it...

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Bats11 Mum (Mom) Active BnB Member Join Date: Dec 2011 Posts: 920	We all learn from our own experiences, i personally prefer vaginal birth, i was lucky to have given birth both times vaginally, but if for what ever reason i had to have a cs, im just glad its available, safety of our babies comes first.

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katealim Mum (Mom) Active BnB Member Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Canada Posts: 677	My second daughter was delivered naturally as a breech baby....I def. wouldn't recommend it!!!

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thestarsfall Trying to conceive (TTC) Active BnB Member Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Canada Posts: 334	My mom told me this story about how one of the ladies she knew when living in Peru had a breech baby and the midwife told the lady to run around the table clockwise 8 times to turn it...and it worked! lol.

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Apr 12th, 2012, 15:09 PM	#28
polaris Mum (Mom) BnB Addict Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Ireland Posts: 7,722	My son was breech. I tried ECV but it didn't work - the doctor thought that the position of the placenta was in his way and stopping him from turning. I didn't find the ECV particularly painful although definitely uncomfortable. I had a planned C-section which thankfully went very smoothly and I had a very good recovery. I was devastated at the time but I do think that it was the right decision. My OH's brother was an undiagnosed breech delivery and he was oxygen-deprived during the birth and has very severe cerebral palsy and is wheelchair bound and cannot feed himself or speak. So for me, a C-section seemed like the safer option for baby even though I was really upset at the time and it wasn't the birth that I would have wanted.

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Apr 19th, 2012, 10:40 AM	#30
Quackquack99 Mum (Mom) BnB Addict Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Lancashire, UK Posts: 2,844	The only reason why I wouldn't accept an ecv is because my uterus is half the size of a normal uterus and it very unlikely to work x

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