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What will happen if you find out the baby is breech?
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Depends: If the baby is close to near term gestation, it may be hard for the baby to turn around before delivery. In this case, a vertex, or head-first delivery can happen in three ways - the baby turns by itself, the OB performs a manual procedure called a version to turn the baby around to deliver vertex, and delivery by C- section. If the baby is preterm, the OB can wait to see if it will turn by itself
Answered 11/30/2014
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Version vs. Cesarean: Breech is when the baby's head isn't pointing down to the cvx/vagina. Frank/footling meanthe baby's feet are either tucked up to its head/dangling down to the vagina. Many reasons why; sometimes baby's size, shape of uterus, rarely it's babies w/ a neuro disorder. >50% switch to cephalic at 32wks, and it even happens at 38wks. OBGYNs can perform a VERSION to flip baby at term, but DON'T TRY @ HOME
Answered 5/31/2015
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