https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:16:19 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/breech-baby-at-33-weeks#post-2276100 Fri, 28 Aug 2015 14:59:25 +0000 birdofafeather 2276100@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@hilsy85: I'm not positive, but with chiropractic, it's not like an ECV, it's more like getting your body in optimal positioning for labor and that causes baby to get in the right position. So not something where they keep flipping around because they're being forced that way. </p> <p>See if your OB has a rec or you can search here for someone certified in the Webster technique: <a href="http://icpa4kids.org/Find-a-Chiropractor/" rel="nofollow">http://icpa4kids.org/Find-a-Chiropractor/</a> </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/breech-baby-at-33-weeks#post-2275741 Fri, 28 Aug 2015 09:04:15 +0000 Rockies11 2275741@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@hilsy85: for me, her head position was very evident - it was up high and central so I could tell she hadn't moved at all so I didn't worry about it while trying the alternative flipping methods.</p> <p>Even with a positive c-section experience, I still didn't want a repeat of it, so I get where you're coming from. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/breech-baby-at-33-weeks#post-2275733 Fri, 28 Aug 2015 08:57:13 +0000 hilsy85 2275733@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Rockies11: yes my OB said they wouldn't attempt the ECV until much later since it can send you into labor. I guess I'm more wondering about the procedures not done in a dr's office--like what if she flips head down again and then I go to a chiropracter and she then flips to breech--I would never know either way that it worked! I know plenty of people who have had positive c sections, I just really don't want one--I had a great vaginal delivery with #1 and would love a repeat! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/breech-baby-at-33-weeks#post-2275723 Fri, 28 Aug 2015 08:50:15 +0000 Rockies11 2275723@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@hilsy85: they can tell if they're flipping during the ECV, because the procedure is them attempting to rotate the baby from the outside. I could feel and see her legs swinging and her head not moving. Mine was done at 37 weeks. I don't know about everywhere but here they don't do them until you're full term in case the baby goes into distress and needs to be removed by c-section. Also if you rotate them too early, they can flip back.</p> <p>I was scheduled for a c-section at 39 weeks, but my water broke and I had her at 38 weeks. They did an ultrasound before the c-section to see if she flipped. Another fun fact is that breech babies are more likely to cause your water to break. </p> <p>My c-section experience was really positive, and I have subsequently had a vaginal birth. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/breech-baby-at-33-weeks#post-2275602 Fri, 28 Aug 2015 07:08:33 +0000 hellobeeboston 2275602@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@hilsy85: yes, this one is still saved on my iPad: <a href="http://spinningbabies.com/learn-more/maternal-positioning/" rel="nofollow">http://spinningbabies.com/learn-more/maternal-positioning/</a></p> <p>Also, in the yoga class they had us sitting on the floor with our butt on a long bolster pillow Indian style. This allows your hips to to thrust far forward and it is supposed to allow the most space for the baby to move. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/breech-baby-at-33-weeks#post-2275599 Fri, 28 Aug 2015 07:02:31 +0000 hilsy85 2275599@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@GrapeCrush: yeah I'm pretty sure I felt her turn breech on Tuesday night and it was crazy--not painful but my whole stomach was moving from side to side. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/breech-baby-at-33-weeks#post-2275595 Fri, 28 Aug 2015 06:57:20 +0000 GrapeCrush 2275595@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My 2nd was transverse breech up until 39w 1d. At my 38 week appointment she was still breech. I already had a repeat csection scheduled for 39w1d so we didn't car that she was breech. After my csection I asked my doctor if she was still breech and he said no. So she flipped at some point during that week.(it must have been when I was sleeping, because whenever she would attempt to flip when I was awake I felt it and that shit hurt!!) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/breech-baby-at-33-weeks#post-2275575 Fri, 28 Aug 2015 06:19:18 +0000 hilsy85 2275575@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@hellobeeboston: do you have any links to those positions?? </p> <p>@Raindrop: ah ok good to know. I don't think she has been transverse, but hard to tell! I would of course have a c sec if that was my option, but I would prefer to avoid especially since labor with LO1 was such a positive experience. @Mrsk: @Rockies11: how did you know that they didn't flip? Were the methods tried followed immediately by u/s or a few days later? I'm thinking of trying to do something next week but then worry that I won't actually know if it worked til the week after, in which time she could flip back! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/breech-baby-at-33-weeks#post-2274975 Thu, 27 Aug 2015 16:11:54 +0000 Raindrop 2274975@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I found out at 28 weeks he was breech for my second baby. Mine was stubbornly breech till the very end. Like I went in for a scheduled c-section at 39 weeks stubborn then I had a successful ECV (mine was not painful at all - I was told they were super painful but I didn't even have drugs because they were going to give me a c-section soonish) and they induced me right away but I had c-section anyways because of heart rate issues while trying to push him out. </p> <p>Oh well. </p> <p>I want to say c-sections aren't bad! I was super scared of them during this time but now that I have had one, it was very not scary.</p> <p>Another edit : I went in to try to get an ECV earlier but my baby was transverse and they don't do ECVs on those babies because they are likely to turn back but since he was in that position my c-section was moved up to 39 weeks instead of 40 weeks because if I went into labor there was a small chance the cord could get pushed down since there was head or butt blocking my cervix. Probably too much information but I thought I would mention this. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/breech-baby-at-33-weeks#post-2274961 Thu, 27 Aug 2015 16:00:18 +0000 hellobeeboston 2274961@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@hilsy85: this baby was breech a few weeks ago, maybe at 32ish? I was sitting in favorable maternal positions that I read online and learned about in a yoga class, don't know if it helped or I got lucky that he flipped head down. He was still doing a lot of flips at that point so I was trying to sit with my hips forward to encourage him going the right way! It's still early! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/breech-baby-at-33-weeks#post-2274880 Thu, 27 Aug 2015 15:01:17 +0000 hilsy85 2274880@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrsk: hm interesting, thanks! Maybe I will give my dr a call tomorrow and see if she thinks it is worth scheduling something for next week. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/breech-baby-at-33-weeks#post-2274877 Thu, 27 Aug 2015 14:57:21 +0000 Mrsk 2274877@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We were pretty spcertain our baby was breech at 33 weeks and had it confirmed at 34. We tried everything to turn the baby:acupuncture, moxa, chiropractor, spinning babies website, I even played music down there to try! We had a ecv at 36 weeks and he didn't budge. And ended up with a scheduled c section. My water broke two weeks before the scheduled c section, and so I had a c section then at 38 weeks. </p> <p>My Dr said that his feet were in my pelvis and so it was really hard to get him to flip, if they are bum first and not low in the pelvis, it is apparently easier to turn them. </p> <p>I know you have time, but it might be worth trying some things like the chiropractor now while the baby has more room to turn rather then wait a few weeks to see if it flips on its own. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/breech-baby-at-33-weeks#post-2274775 Thu, 27 Aug 2015 14:04:45 +0000 hilsy85 2274775@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Rockies11: ah ok gotcha. This baby has been head down at every drs appt from 24 weeks on, so this was a total surprised, and like you said, 2nd babies have more room. Glad it wasn't too painful--and good to know that it was short! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/breech-baby-at-33-weeks#post-2274774 Thu, 27 Aug 2015 14:03:39 +0000 Rockies11 2274774@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@hilsy85: Mine did not work, but I did not have a good chance of success. She was breech at every single ultrasound from 20 weeks onwards. I was really petite with tight muscles so that did not help anything either. And her head was really high and jammed up really tight at the top, so her body could swing but her head wasn't moving. </p> <p>The ECV was painful, but it wasn't nearly as bad as it had been described to me. I was expecting like, the worst pain ever and it wasn't like that at all. It was more like strange and uncomfortable and somewhat painful. It also is pretty short in duration - like a minute or so and they tried twice I think. I always figure you can do anything for a minute! But all that said, how bad you might think it is may be informed by other health care procedures you have had. I have had 2 totally unmedicated barium enemas, so on that scale, it was nothing, lol. I wouldn't be surprised that, having had a child already, it wouldn't be that bad comparatively. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/breech-baby-at-33-weeks#post-2274771 Thu, 27 Aug 2015 14:02:49 +0000 nana87 2274771@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO was breech around that point and flipped within a few days. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/breech-baby-at-33-weeks#post-2274770 Thu, 27 Aug 2015 14:00:55 +0000 hilsy85 2274770@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@JoyfulKiwi: I"ve never seen one before, so I'm going to wait to see what the baby is doing at 35 weeks, but then will definitely talk to my Ob about it! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/breech-baby-at-33-weeks#post-2274767 Thu, 27 Aug 2015 14:00:11 +0000 JoyfulKiwi 2274767@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@hilsy85: see a chiropractor! There is one in my town that all the mommies in my prenatal yoga class go to if their babies are breech &amp; it seems to help almost all of them. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/breech-baby-at-33-weeks#post-2274743 Thu, 27 Aug 2015 13:53:24 +0000 Pumuckl 2274743@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@hilsy85: my second was breech for a really long time. If I remember correctly she flipped at 34 weeks. She turned out to be a lot smaller (mainly length wise) than my first so he had a lot more room. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/breech-baby-at-33-weeks#post-2274740 Thu, 27 Aug 2015 13:52:42 +0000 hilsy85 2274740@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Rockies11: ah ok. Did that work for you? Was that painful? I definitely plan to get one if she is still breech!</p> <p>ETA did you try anything else? I was just lying with my hips elevated for a min but it was not at all comfortable and I had to stop! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/breech-baby-at-33-weeks#post-2274738 Thu, 27 Aug 2015 13:52:03 +0000 Rockies11 2274738@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@hilsy85: I also had an ECV with my first and they said that those are much more likely to work if you're a 2nd time + mom. I wouldn't start worrying yet! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/breech-baby-at-33-weeks#post-2274725 Thu, 27 Aug 2015 13:46:18 +0000 hilsy85 2274725@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@autumnlove: ah ok interesting! Thanks!<br /> @Rockies11: yes that was what my OB said. She obviously still has plenty of room if she just flipped in the last few days. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/breech-baby-at-33-weeks#post-2274722 Thu, 27 Aug 2015 13:44:20 +0000 Rockies11 2274722@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My LO#1 was breech at 33 weeks and stayed breech, but one of the things they said a lot was that if I had been at 2nd time + mom, she would have been much more likely to flip because the stretched out muscles don't hold them in so tight. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/breech-baby-at-33-weeks#post-2274715 Thu, 27 Aug 2015 13:42:04 +0000 autumnlove 2274715@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO 1 flipped pretty late. I think she gradually moved to a transverse and then head down after 36 weeks! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/breech-baby-at-33-weeks#post-2274709 Thu, 27 Aug 2015 13:38:53 +0000 hilsy85 2274709@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Anyone have a breech 2nd baby at 33 weeks who flipped? When did they flip, if they did? LO was head down at our growth u/s on Monday at 32w4, but was breech at our dr's appt on Wednesday at 32w6d. The dr wasn't worried, and neither am I (yet), but I read that only 5% of babies are breech at 33 weeks. Just wondering if anyone has experience! </p>