Sentences with phrase «footling breech»

Rewind: Feb 2015: I helped her birth her footling breech baby girl naturally.

There are several types of breech presentations, including frank breech (bottom first with feet up near the head), complete breech (bottom first with legs crossed Indian - style), or footling breech (one or both feet are poised to come out first).

Single footling breech is an extremely high risk situation and once the first leg is delivered the risk of death goes up dramatically.

Turns out she was a footling breech and I went into labor at 35 weeks - so we had to go to the hospital and ended up having a c - section due to her positioning.

Footling Breech where your baby's bottom is higher in the uterus, but his feet are at the opening of the pelvic bone, set to come out first

Both the Footling Breech and the Kneeling Breech are very rare positions.

The main concern with attempting a footling breech vaginal delivery is that the umbilical cord could become prolapsed.

While footling breech isn't always an emergency, many factors influence the birth outcome of a footling baby.

But the OB / GYN changed her mind about supporting Lana's homebirth plans when an ultrasound showed that the first baby was footling breech.

Both babies were born healthy, and even the second twin, a footling breech, delivered almost effortlessly.

Now on when you said when you're grabbing on to the feet, are we talking about a footling breech delivery or you just kind of...

I ended up having a c - section, a birth so very far off from my planned home birth, due to a footling breech baby, and Crystal helped me rationalize and be OK with how my birth story ended.

We found these characteristics to be particularly welcome in our case, since our birth plans were upended late in pregnancy upon discovery that our baby was footling breech.

Other reasons to transfer to the hospital during labor: non-reassuring fetal heart tones, thick meconium and the birth not imminent, malpresentation of the fetus (e.g. footling breech), maternal fever, broken bag of waters and no labor for an extended amount of time.

The danger of a prolapsed cord is greater with a footling breech and a complete breech.

Incomplete or Footling Breech: A footling breech is when the baby's legs are extended and facing straight down.

Like Chelsea, I don't want to scare anyone, but I had never heard of a footling breech before and, because it was undiagnosed, never had any reason to look it up.

I didn't want to waste my energy being disappointed, but actually redirect it to be able to birth this baby footling breech should he decide to come that way.

my daughter surprised us with turning breech while I was in labor and I too delivered her at home, footling breech..

As an aside, I was thinking some more about the whole footling breech thing and how the parents were all, wow, that birth was awesome!

Also, how he has this great NCB rep, I'm guessing precisely because he delivered a footling breech in the hospital which gives him like 10 million crunchy points or something.

This quote was particularly awful: «At that point they realized the baby was not frank breech but in fact footling breech which is a much more complicated type of delivery.

It's terrifying enough when someone attempts a footling breech in a city like, say, Eugene, where a high level NICU is a few miles away.

Membranes broke at 32 weeks, she was a footling breech and prolasped her cord.

The other midwife in the La Grande area delivered a footling breech at home (this is Sherry Dress).

I had heard about this midwife before, but not that she had delivered a footling breech at home.

When my son was born a surprise footling breech, with the cord wrapped around his neck three times, and his arm behind his head, I was so glad we made the choice that we did.

The genesis of the controversy is a planned homebirth of a double footling breech, an uncommon breech position know to have a very high rate of neonatal death.

He was found to be a footling breech after my water broke and I was in labour.

I discussed this above but to reiterate: my ob was on call when a woman showed up at the hospital in labor with a footling breech that she eventually delivered vaginally because she refused CS.

He then taught me my first lesson in parenting by being in the footling breech position, discovered after my water broke.

Some of them include home birth (my son was a footling breech and born at home), breastfeeding (I've shared my experiences of nursing while pregnant and tandem nursing), and informed healthcare decisions (why we delay / selectively vaccinate).

surprise footling breech baby boy in our bedroom at home.

Both births were c - sections (1 placenta previa, 2 footling breech), both daughters nursed exclusively and on demand to 6 months, neither with any oral issues... I don't think I'll ever know exactly what happened, but if I'd listened to my first daughters pediatrician I wouldn't have been successful in breastfeeding my eldest to 30 months, and may have been discouraged with my second (who is 8 months and still nursing strong).

And somehow there's no panic or fear even though it was a footling breech birth.

Footling breech?

Hi there — found your AWESOME story while I was googling about footling breechs (after a friend of mine had one)... curious, how old was your daughter Ava?

Considering the fact that she believed footling breeches were perfectly safe, I doubt her «information» went far beyond «I don't want a repeat C - section.

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As they instructed paramedics over the hospital radio, they learned this birth was going to be as difficult as they come: It wasn't just a breech birth, but a «footling» — where a foot emerges first.