It made me want to explore the experience I had as a newborn (I was born via c - section, due to
being frank breech, and kept away from my mom for several hours following the operation) and made me curious how that may have shaped who I am and the relationship I have with my mother today.
One tiny note: you said baby
was frank breech with his feet on the bottom, but frank actually means the feet are up by the head (pike position).
I had a c - section b / c
she was frank breech.
I knew I could and wanted to give birth to my baby naturally, as my mom had me (her first child) with no drugs, and
I was frank breech!
My first child was a C - section because
he was franks breech which unfortunately was not realized until I arrived at the birthing center 5 centimeters dialated.
The ideal vaginal breech presentation
is a frank breech position in which baby's buttocks are down and the legs in pike position, hips flexed and knees straight.
Not exact matches
My daughter our 2nd
was born at home in a planned vaginal
frank breech home birth with an experienced CPM in NC (not legal here alas) that I had seen my entire pregnancy.
my daughter cole
was a surprise
frank breech baby who
was born at home with a midwife, papa, and two friends attending.
Elisabeth Ann
was born
frank breech to first time momma on October 2nd, 2013 weighing eight pounds, one ounce and an amazing twenty - four inches long!
research it usually takes a few minutes / contractions for the
frank breech baby to go from rumping to
being born to the umbilicus.
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.
My daughter
was in a
frank breech position the entire pregnancy and right from the beginning my ob / gyn told me, «The last
breech baby I delivered died, so I won't deliver
breech babies vaginally.»
The risk
is less when the baby
is in the
frank breech position.
There
are actually three varieties of the
breech position —
frank, where the baby
is bottom down with legs straight up, incomplete, one or both legs pointing down and complete, where your baby
is sitting with his or her legs crossed.
As soon as the [inaudible] can
be very successful, it
is much more successful in a complete
breech baby than in a
frank breech baby and it
is more successful when you have already had a baby what we call altiperus than a mother that
is pregnant risk.
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).
I have a scheduled c - section due to a
frank breech presentation and I didn't think much of evening doing a birth plan - I
was afraid to
be «one of those women» and annoy the nurses.
This
is known as a complete
breech presentation by definition, not a
frank breech as my last had
been.
Our first baby
was in the
frank breech position for birth with Molly and Dr. Fischbein.