Who knows their baby is head down? - Page 3

[thankful85]

Has anyone checked themselves internally?  I felt like a bowling ball was going to fall out of my crotch this morning and did a quick check.  Holy smokes!    There was the baby's head!!  At least I think it was since it was round and hard!!

[nosce]

I remember doing that with my daughter around 37 weeks- it was almost terrifying to feel this big, hard, dark head just...waiting. As soon as this baby decides to put his head down I'll probably take a feel.

Send turning vibes my way, please! I SO badly want to join this club.

[upnorthmama]

Had an appointment yesterday with the midwife and she confirmed what I suspected. Baby is head down and OP. My last was OP and turned right before she came out. I am hoping to get this baby turned before labour begins. Nobody likes back labour! Going to try diaphragm release. Anybody have experience with that?

[pixiekisses]

I really should never have said I expected him to stay vertex. He was last night, for sure. But he woke me up during the night, several times, and I suspected he turned around. I didn't have time to palp. my belly this morning to check, but I said so to my OBGYN, and she confirmed what I thought on the ultrasound. He's breech again. I really don't like that, 34 weeks tomorrow, so he'd better turn again so I don't have to worry.

The upside was that I got to see his beautiful face on the ultrasound today! :D

He's been vertex anterior, so I haven't the last month.

I think dad hopes he'll be breech until monday so he can get to see his face too on that ultrasound.

[sweeteleanor]

This one is a flipper.  Last week he went breech.  I did some inversions, well, one, and he flipped.  I am SO NOT saying that did it, but you never know, eh?  Midwife scared me and said that she has seen babies flip to breech DURING LABOR.  Holy shit that's scary to me!  Then again it shows that in the end there is not much you can do to control pregnancy or the little one inside.

[nosce]

Hooray! I walked into the midwife's office today prepared to demand an ultrasound, since none of her clues about baby's head being up or down lately have been making sense, and not only did she suggest it before I had a chance to, but just by feel she confirmed he's moved head down. Finally. So no need for an ultrasound at this point, but I am elated to join this club! Breech was my one big pregnancy fear and while I know he could still flip back around, right now I can finally relax.

[ashleybrook]

nosce--- congrats! welcome to the head down club!!!

[thankful85]

Yeah!!  Awesome news :)

[sweeteleanor]

WAHHH!  I think he turned again last night.  Head down again maybe.

[thankful85]

FINALLY have confirmation that he is head down!  Now I can stop obsessing over his position and relax!!  She said he's not too low yet and not fully engaged but she can't move his head so he's semi engaged.  

[sweeteleanor]

Head up and now down again.  In two days time.  This kid.  Grrr...

[cagnew]

As of yesterday, my baby is breech. Pretty sure she has been that way for awhile. I'm only 33w2d and I know she can flip but... I really don't want to deal with this! I'm already a VBAC and that is emotional strain enough! 

If you need me I will be standing on my head for the next 6 weeks....

[homemademom]

Originally Posted by cagnew 

As of yesterday, my baby is breech. Pretty sure she has been that way for awhile. I'm only 33w2d and I know she can flip but... I really don't want to deal with this! I'm already a VBAC and that is emotional strain enough! 

If you need me I will be standing on my head for the next 6 weeks....

Mama, get to a chiropractor who's experienced with the Webster technique! It worked for me at 32 weeks and my baby had been breech at least from 20 weeks with no deviation.

[lyterae]

Originally Posted by cagnew 

As of yesterday, my baby is breech. Pretty sure she has been that way for awhile. I'm only 33w2d and I know she can flip but... I really don't want to deal with this! I'm already a VBAC and that is emotional strain enough! 

If you need me I will be standing on my head for the next 6 weeks....

  I'm sorry Cagnew, I'm also planning a VBAC and there is already enough stress around that without adding breech in. Will your provider deliver a breech baby?

[pixiekisses]

@cagnew, I'm right there with you. I don't like that he flipped to breech again. I'm having a VBAC too. Now, I'm allowed a breech VBAC, no problem, but I would really prefer him to be head down to not add to my stress. And it would be good to avoid the pelvic xray that is required here with a breech birth too.

But mostly, this is a high-risk pregnancy, and birth, and I don't need more stress around it. And, since I was having contractions every 2 min. yesteday for quite some time, I might give birth before I get to even 37 weeks, so I am a tiny bit stressed from it.
Flip baby, flip!

I even discussed it with my OBGYN yesterday when I was admitted, we saw he was breech, and I almost panicked because I thought I wouldn't be allowed to have a VBAC with a breech preemie. But my OBGYN said that he is so big now (I was 34+1 yesterday) that I can have a breech birth with him. So that did calm me down a lot. That I at least know I won't have to have a c-section because of that (one of my biggest fears, ending up with a c-section).
There is the xray though, the results I mean, that could stop me. But I highly doubt it, I'm not tiny or have narrow hips or anything, and since it's not exactly number 1, there should be plenty of space.

[cagnew]

Pixie: You are lucky to have an OB that will let you do a breech VBAC. I like my OB a lot, but she will not do a breech birth at all. Her second baby was a c-section b/c it was breech.... If the baby stays breech, I COULD stay home and have a midwife deliver it, but I am just not ready to go there yet. Last night I had a lot of contractions, which ordinarily would make me happy. Now I just want the baby to flip before things get rolling.

I will be checking out a local chiropractor that does the Webster method. My friend used him with her transverse baby and he flipped for her :)

[pixiekisses]

@cagnew, I'm not lucky, I'm in Norway.

The norm for breech babies here is still vaginal delivery. As long as your pevic xray says there is room, they won't give you a c-section just for a breech baby.

(They won't give you a c-section here unless it's absolutely medically necessary. You need good, strong reasons. VBAC's are the norm too, and mostly VBA2C's as well. (And yes, our maternity death rates are way below US.) It's a good birthing country.)

[cagnew]

Pixie- Funny you should say that. I have suddenly been getting a lot crap from my friends on facebook about both VBAC, breech, and home births. This whole pregnancy no one has said anything and then all the sudden BAM... ignorance everywhere. One of the things I was trying to tell them was that VBAC and breech births are normal everywhere else in the world and that our system in the US is actually waaaay behind other countries- and that our death rates were some of the highest for developed countries. I know it isn't their fault, but it gets me so angry. One friend freaked out and told me that when she had her c-section her doctor told her never to try a vaginal birth because she would bleed to death and the baby would die. WTF?!? But then I look like the nutcase when I say the OB was wrong.

Oh well! I hope your xray turns out good! And that your baby turns too!

[OkiMom]

Breech is one thing they WON"T allow you to even attempt to have a vaginal birth at the hospital I'm birthing at. Luckily the baby has been heads down every time they have checked since 20 weeks so I'm not to worried. If his kicks are anything to gauge by hes definitely heads down. He likes to kick my ribs a lot.

[pregnant@40]

Interesting blog post from an OB who does vaginal breech:

http://mwwak.blogspot.com/2006/11/do-or-do-not-there-is-no-try.html