Ways to get Baby A head down

[klocke]

So I'm not even sure what position Baby A is in because whenever they do the u/s he looks like he is all over the place, LOL. But I need to have at least Baby A head down to get a vaginal delivery. OB will still deliver vaginally if Baby B is breech but likes the first to be vertex. So is there anything I can do to help make sure he gets head down? OB is going to let me go into labor on my own and said I have until I am in active labor for Baby A to get head down before they do a c-section but it would be great if I knew in advance that he had settle downward. I'm only 24 weeks so I know I have time but I'm a planner and like to have things laid out ahead of time.

[RunnerDuck]

My baby A was head down until 30 weeks or so... then she flipped. I tried a few things to get her to go head down again - chiropractor, hanging upside on monkey bars, pelvic tilts, hanging inclined on an ironing board, yelling at her... she stayed breech, then I got pre-eclampsia and had them at 35 weeks. C-section. Oh well! Really wasn't half as bad as I feared, for what it's worth.

At 24 weeks there's just too much room in there to worry yet... baby is going to move around a lot still. Good luck! They can flip either way at any time... little stinkers.

Personally, my health took such a disastrous nose dive at the end I think a c/s was best for me. Had that not been the case, though, i think that rather pleading with the baby to go head down again, I wish I had looked harder for a practitioner who will do a breech delivery of baby A. Even if it hadn't been a good idea in my case, it would have been nice to have someone open to it. It's all well and good to try to get the baby to be in the right position, but a practitioner willing to work with what's there is worth a lot, too. Sometimes a c/s is best but I wish more practitioners were willing to attempt a breech delivery. There are women who have had vaginal deliveries of a breech baby A successfully. For me, I just kind of accepted that Breech A means C/S...

But FWIW this is the site I tried to get some info from.

http://www.spinningbabies.com/

The hanging off the monkey bars was my own idea, though, and that was a feat. i thought it might kinda jar the babies into moving around but it was really just idiotic, hanging there in the dark with 15 pounds of uterus flopping in my face. I don't reccomend it.

[Intertwined]

Claire was head down until 35ish weeks and then flipped breech. She flipped back and forth several times but was eventually born breech. Ben flipped from breech to vertex (POSTERIOR, the rat) as his sister was coming into the world. Honestly, the posterior birth was harder than the breech birth but it's a close competition on that one. I had a physiological normal birth with Claire, not an extraction.

Honestly, finding a care provider who's OK with breech wouldn't be a bad idea if you feel strongly about not having a surgical birth. Otherwise, check out spinningbabies.com for more ideas on optimal fetal positioning.

My MW and I have often felt that Claire stayed breech because I was having so many contractions that had she been and stayed head down they would have been born earlier than the 39 weeks we gestated. Perhaps that's just us being silly and romantic but I have often said she was just the gatekeeper preventing labor until both were ready.

[Valerieg]

My cousin's wife just gave birth to twins on 12/30. She had a scheduled c-section that day but the u/s the day before showed that they had flipped head down. Both of them, and one was head up with the other lying transverse on top of it, just a couple days before. So much for planning!

My OB is going to let me do the same thing, trial of labor, before he'll make a final decision on a c-section and I'm loving the option but I do know it is making me anxious too! I'm constantly trying to figure out where these babies are (and I have no idea).

You could try the spinningbabies website but I didn't even find that particularly helpful. It's just harder with two- too many variables can exist inside that may be making it so that your babies want to be in the positions they are in (placentas, umbilical cords, etc.)

Good luck! I'm 35 weeks tomorrow...I wish I could see in there...I'm soooo anxious. But I've come to terms with the possibility of a c-section, even if I don't want one at all.