Turning A Breech Baby

Here are 17 Ways to turn a breech baby!

© Brenda Lane

Turning breech with massage, Jake Campbell

If your baby is breech and you want to avoid having a cesarean, there are many ways to learn how to turn a breech baby to head down (vertex).

While the common practice for many years was to delivery breech babies vaginally and obstetricians in the 1960's and 1970's were trained with the appropriate skills for this more complicated delivery, delivering breech babies vaginally is becoming more and more of a lost skill as obstetricians are focusing more on surgery and performing cesareans instead. And few women are given strategies to turn their breech babies to vertex (head down.)

My mother's fifth and last child was born in 1970 vaginally in a frank breech position without complications. My mother would have a 97% chance of having a cesarean if my youngest sister would have been born today.

Breech babies make up for about 4% of all pregnancies today. There are several different positions that are all considered to be breech:

It is common for mothers with breech babies to hear that the "only" thing they can do is to have a cesarean. The truth is that there are several options for breech babies:

Are there effective ways that You can turn your breech baby to a vertex position? Some say "no" that nothing works to turn a breech baby. Yet there are several methods that women and birth professionals can work together to turn breech babies to a vertex position.

Here are 17 Ways to Turn Your Breech Baby!

Be sure to check with your provider before trying the positions for turning a breech baby to see if there is any reason why you should not use them.


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