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Is your Baby Breech?

What are your options???

Try encouraging the baby to change positions  (the 4 following suggestions can help with that)

Try Acupuncture!!!!

Try Chiropractor trained to work with pregnant women!!!!

Try Hypnosis. 

Hypnotherapy may help pregnant women turn their breech baby around to the normal head-first, or vertex, position. A researcher at the University of Vermont, Burlington, used hypnosis with one hundred pregnant women whose fetuses were in the breech (feet-first) position between the thirty-seventh and fortieth week of gestation.

The intervention group received hypnosis with suggestions for general relaxation and release of fear and anxiety. While under hypnosis, the women were also asked why their baby was in the breech position.

The study, which appeared in the Archives of Family Medicine, reported that 81 percent of the fetuses in the hypnosis group moved to the vertex position, compared with 48 percent of the control group. Not surprisingly, hypnosis was most effective for the women motivated to use the technique."

Natural Health magazine, November-December 1995

Hypnobabies now has a Turn Your Breech Baby MP3 you can download instantly!  Click here to visit the Hypnobabies MP3 page.

 

Spinning babies - a website with a LOT of great information

Have a scheduled c-section - may be your only option if baby won't turn... but research having a trial of labor instead of having a scheduled cesarean. 

Have a trial of labor and then c-section if baby doesn't turn - some babies turn during labor.  Even if the baby doesn't turn there are benefits for the baby to go through some labor before being born via cesarean.

Find an OB or midwife who will deliver a Breech baby - I am sure some still exist.  I don't know where or how to find them.  My best guess would be a teaching hospital might be willing.