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No experience, but while I was reading about breech babies I did see something that said some babies like to hang out transverse right before they flip head down. I hope he cooperates for you!!

@Raindrop: and you got to avoid a painful procedure! did she mention the flipping babies website and exercises?

I know mrs. panda said her baby turned on the day of her scheduled C so its always possible even late in the game. I hope baby turns for you! wish i had more advice but in the end i am sure it will all be okay even if you need a c section.

@Raindrop: my daughter was breech basically my entire pregnancy. She would go between regular breech to transverse, but mainly hung out transverse(I knew, because it was so painful and I could feel her giant dome pushing on my spleen). At my 38 week appointment she was transverse. I was already having a repeat section on 39w 1d, so I didn't try anything to flip her, and sometime between my appointment and my csection she flipped head down. So it can happen!

@Raindrop: I was told my baby was transverse at maybe 34 weeks? I posted about it back then freaking out. I did all the spinning babies stuff constantly, even at work, and I had a couple moxibustion appointments and I turned upside down in the swimming pool all the time(it was summer and our building had a pool). I had a positioning ultrasound at 38 weeks and she was head down....

But I never felt her move, so who knows if anything helped or if she did it on her own.

@Raindrop: it happened to me too. LO was transverse so we scheduled a csection right around my due date. Cancelled it, she turned again, then she flipped just in time for regular head down delivery.
The funniest thing we tried was a flashlight and singing songs 'down there.'

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M was transverse all through my third trimester. On the Friday before my Monday c section, he was still transverse on the ultrasound. When they opened me up Monday morning, he was head down.

Eta: c section was at 39 weeks.

Following along as we're in the same boat, although I'm a little further ahead of you!

I read this today and was a good reminder about the necessity of keeping a sense of humor: http://www.pregnantchicken.com/pregnant-chicken-blog/2011/7/24/how-to-turn-a-breech-baby.html

I'm not going crazy with it, but I have done the frat girl, the sweaty vampire, and the Ice, Ice Baby (coupled with a heating pad down below as a nice alternative for her to flip towards).

@Raindrop: I don't have any stats or anything except to say that transverse is a lot more hopeful than the full breeches. Mine was in a really awkward Frank Breech and didn't budge an inch on the ECV attempts. I know from my reading and from all the doctors that transverse had a way, way higher chance of a successful flip. With Frank Breech, they gave me 20 percent odds of success with an ECV.

Yep during the last couple of weeks my LO flipped all over, usually staying transverse. She was breech when my c-section was scheduled and when they did an ultrasound to confirm her position the week of the procedure, she had flipped head down. The night before I thought I felt her transverse, and I guess I was right. Even though she ended up head down I still ended up with a section due to failure to progress after induction.

@Raindrop: I'm half Korean and never got that advice, though she was never too much trouble in the womb, just wiggly. Now I think she is just normal, fussy at her wonder weeks but overall a good baby.

@Raindrop: lol I don't really have many Asian friends, just my mom, and she wouldn't tell me anything like that because she always defers to me on anything medical since I'm a nurse though I will say those breech baby moves from spinning babies really worked. She would keep flipping back to transverse, I would do the moves before an ultrasound and she would get in the right position. Try it out!

@Raindrop: my mom has her fair share of superstitions! Just not many related to pregnancy. She did say things about like cravings and stuff like that, just nothing about positioning or anything more concrete. I wish I had more Asian friends, there just aren't that many around here. The last encounter I had with an Asian acquaintance, he started gesturing to a very crowded room and saying "F these white people!" It was a strange experience lol

@Raindrop: I was gonna have the c section either way.