In case of breech presentation after 35 weeks, health care providers often try to manually guide the fetus into the right position for birth or the head-down position. This procedure of turning a ...

All eligible women with breech presentations who are near term should be offered external cephalic version (ECV) to cut down on the number of cesarean deliveries, according to a new practice bulletin ...

Background: External cephalic version (ECV) is recommended by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists to convert a breech fetus to vertex position and reduce the need for cesarean ...

This was a retrospective cohort study of outcomes following successful external cephalic version in 411 women at an Australian tertiary maternity unit between November 2008 and March 2015. The study ...

When I found out I was pregnant with my second child, I thought I knew what I was getting myself into. I had done the whole pregnancy thing before and I figured everything would be about the same. Boy ...

When Vanessa Fisher's baby was breech (feet facing down) at 38 weeks, she tried "a number of other methods to turn the baby naturally" before his birth, but to no avail. Wanting to avoid a C-section ...

The authors matched 197 women who had undergone successful ECV with the next 2 women of similar parity, gestational age, delivery history and type of labor who presented for labor management. They ...

Q: My friend just found out her fetus is breech, and she is going to have the doctor try and turn it around. Why is this done? A: Early in pregnancy the fetus may do "somersaults," and sometimes be ...

how the baby ends up lying - nothing more than chance. The incidence of breech presentation is much higher earlier in pregnancy - around one in five at 28 weeks, and one in six still at 32 weeks. Most ...