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Originally Posted by sanguine_speed  Not necessarily at all. Ina May herself has used a flat-on-back technique for stuck breeches to help them get over the public bone depending on presentation. My breech was also flat on back for that reason--lowered flat when head got stuck.
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This was an untrained person on the phone to the mama and an unstuck breech though. I'm not saying positional changes cannot be incredibly useful in breeches as in all births, but i think "lie on your back" is not going to save more breeches than it harms when spoken by someone who isn't actually there to see what is happening or help in any way - they tell ALL mama's who say their baby is coming out to lie on their back apparently. It transpired when she got to the hospital that the ob who saw her simply discounted that the baby had been breech (despite the paramedics report and the recorded phonecall) because "if it HAD been footling breech something bad would have happened".
