breech

[Leila Fae]

My LO was breech from before 28 weeks. Everyone kept telling me he had ages to turn but I think I just knew he wouldn't. I tried all the things you can do at home - ice packs, bottom in the air etc but nothing. I was originally really anti c-section because I wanted a part of my pregnancy to be 'normal' as I'd had IVF and a very controlled pregnancy as I'm diabetic. I spent a lot of time reconciling myself to the section before it was clear I'd definitely have one.

I went for an ECV which didn't work and in the early hours of the morning on the day we were due to go in and book our elective I went into labour. I'm pretty sure it was the attempted ECV which triggered it. Anyway after a middle of the night drive to hospital (which is 40-odd miles away) I ended up with an emcs. Having said that, because it wasn't a mad rush (I laboured in hospital for 4 hours) it felt rather relaxed and my LO came out looking gorgeous. He was 37+3 but totally cooked The doc had to wiggle him out a bit as his bum was firmly stuck in my pelvis - there was no way he would have turned.

I didn't know what to expect regarding recovery and it was a pain not being able to move around comfortably but, it's a cliche I know, the most important thing was that we both came out of it safely.