----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 2:54
AM
Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] re: breech
presentation at term
it is sad, Tania and that is how it "normally"
goes. I talked with a woman recently who had a c/s for her third baby
since it was breech after having had 2 previous normal vaginal births. The
reason given her was essentially lack of practitioner skill with vaginal
breech birth and consequently the danger of it (maybe it was around
the other way- some listener bias here) and she was also told that ecv was now
considered too dangerous so was advised against it. She was only 38 + weeks
with the bum not engaged when she received the cesarean and both her other
babies had gone to 41+ weeks. Is there any evidence to support this statement
about ecv's at term? It isn't what I have studied, researched, or heard
before. That didn't come out of the term breech trial too did it?
marilyn
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 1:37
PM
Subject: [ozmidwifery] re: breech
presentation at term
To all who were so supportive and helpful,
My friend has just rung me and informed me that her baby
is head down! She had a couple of sessions of accupuncture and
moxibustion, which made her baby extremely active, and then saw a
chiropractor, and did lots of visualisation, meditation, playing music to
her baby, and postural stuff at home, and voila! She is absolutely
blown away by the responses from this list, I printed them out for her
(thankyou Andrea for the link to your page, the moxibustion stuff was
great), and now eagerly awaits labour and hopefully an empowering
birth. What a pity she received no encouragement, ideas, or
instruction whatsoever from the practitioner she sees as her primary
maternity care provider, and pays good money to consult, except that they
would wait and see and then if her baby was breech at term she would be
booked in for a section. Sad isn't it.
Thanks once again
Tania
