There may be a genetic link from parent to child that could make it more likely for the breech position during pregnancy to be passed from one generation to the next.
A Norwegian study published in the British Medical Journal is showing that there may be a genetic component to having a baby in the breech position during pregnancy.
Researchers examined over 2.2 million births over two generations to see if their hypothesis was correct (that both men and women who were breech themselves at birth were more likely to have a child who was also in a breech position.)
In fact, what the study showed was that both men and women who were breech themselves, were more than twice as likely to have a child delivered in a breech position. The strongest recurrence were found with men and women who were delivered vaginally in a breech position. Passing this "breech tendency" down to their offspring only occured with participants who reached full term at birth.
For related information see Turning Breech Babies and Vaginal Breech.
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