Turning Your Breech Baby
Breech means the baby has its buttocks in the pelvic girdle instead of its head. You can deliver your baby breech, but there are some risks associated with this variation of normal birth so it is best to attempt to turn your baby between 32 and 36 weeks to eliminate those risks.
Ask your care provider to tell you the position of the baby as well as the condition of the placenta and its position. These are facts you should know as early as possible.
If your baby is breech after 32 weeks, try the following listed in order of increasing difficulty.
- First, pray for your baby to be head down and ask God to lead you to do the best things to help that happen.
- Pelvic rocking. Do as many as you can throughout the day.
Elephant walking. Walking on hands and feet instead of knees.
- Relaxation and meditation
- Have the father talk to the baby, just above the pubic bone. Tell the baby to turn around.
- Lie on your back on a board or using pillows so that your hips are 45 degrees higher than your head.External Version. I prefer to do this after everything you can do yourself has failed.
- Print pictures of head down babies and place them around the house so you visualize this throughout the day.
- Play music through headphones, placing them just above the pubic bone so the baby will flip to hear it better.
- Shine a bright light just above the pubic bone.
- Swimming. There is nothing more relaxing. Walking on hands under water. Also, somersaults in the water. Do not forget to hold your nose. Also diving.
- Chiropractic Webster Technique.
- Acupuncture or moxibustion
- External version. There are some risks to dong this. Discuss them with your care provider. The physician or midwife uses drugs or herbs to relax the uterus. Then while listening to heart tones continually, the baby is moved to a head down position with hands on your belly.
I use an inversion table to help the baby's buttocks leave the pelvis, increasing the likelihood of success in turning the baby to a vertex position.
The following images are from the Breech Series on MedHelp.org
