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My cousin is 36 weeks at the mo and baba is transverse, they have brought her in this morning and she has to stay in till due date for fear her waters break and they have to do emergency c section. She is due christmas week so she is going to ask them for a section rather than leave it till it becomes an emergency. It has to do it with the cord getting caught around the neck. She is in the Rotunda.

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You are usually booked in for a section a week or two early as there is a risk of cord prolapse should labour start spontaneously. My first was stubbornly transverse and I was due to be sectioned at 38 weeks. As it transpired the baby performed a somersault before arriving at 37 weeks.

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"Don't look to the approval of others for your mental stability." - Karl Lagerfeld

ALL three of mine were breech and transverse but two settled to breech and managed to do bum in air to shift head down ,third was transverse and unstable lay so we were in and out of hospital like yoyos in the end 2 days before birth with bum in air about 6 -7 times a day 20 min at a time and some accupunture he went head down [although born arms first lol ]good luck hun .

Mambo, nearly there now. DS was transverse until delivered, but I was a planned CS all long. Normally they will admit you, your so near your due date I'm surprised that you haven't been brought in for a CS. I hope baby does a quick turn for you.

BTW, The outcome was a fab beautiful baby, and my fav colour is purple

Hi Mambo, my youngest was transverse from about 34 weeks and was flipping between transverse, breech and cephalic for the last 6 weeks of the pregnancy. The worry with transverse is that there is nothing to stop a cord prolapse so my consultant was going to take me in at 37 weeks to monitor in case this happened. As it turned out babs kept flipping but I was in and out about twice a week at the end. I was brought in to turn baby at about 37 weeks but she had turned already but turned back the next day. Due to totally different issue I was brought in on day before due date, that night babs was transverse again, consultant came to prep me for section and by the time he examined me again she had flipped to head down so got another nights reprieve. In the end she was born by emergency CS on due date, coming feet first! If baby stays transverse I believe it is a given that it will be a C section delivery. I was hoping if it was it would be a planned v. emergency but due to a worry about baby's health doc was trying to avoid section for me in case baby had to go to Crumlin. Thankfully baby was perfect (and beautiful!) and I recovered fine. Best of luck to you, don't know if you have had a section before, I hadn't so was v. apprehensive but all went well. Best of luck!

My last was a dancing baby for the last few weeks -she was head down at 40, but not engaged went in at 40 +6 and she was def transverse and was admitted and stayed put until she was delivered by c-section - there was no moving her! Delivered her at 40+16 (my dates), 40+12 (scan dates)

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"I guess that's just the circle of life: our parents faked their way through it,you fake your way through it and hopefully you don't raise a serial killer" Phil Dunphy - Modern Family

I'm also very surprised you haven't been admitted (I have tickers turned off, so didn't realise your due date was imminent). Has your obs/mw even discussed a section with you yet?

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"Don't look to the approval of others for your mental stability." - Karl Lagerfeld

If it is you we are talking about Mambo like LMD I'm surprised too that you haven't been admitted. If it's not you well my favourite colour is at the moment duck egg blue.

Can't believe you're nearly there. Best of luck woman.

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Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves for we shall never cease to be amused.

Thanks for the replies, I'm so pissed off. Went today for a routine GP visit (combined care) and was met with a stand-in GP because my usual was on holidays. She flippantly told me that she reckons the baby is transverse and hopefully it will go head down before labour. I asked if I should go to the hospital - she said no, 'that's a bit over the top'

Well fuck her anyway.



Have just rang the hospital there after reading the replies here and have been told to go in immediately - it's a bad sign when Mammies on an internet forum can advise you better than a trained GP. Although, given her lack of knowledge, the baby's probably head down and engaged (hope so!)

My fav colour is black - you're not my kinda people

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Oh and thanks for the 'good lucks'

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Good luck Mambo, I know once I got to hospital I relaxed a little knowing that if I did go into labour I was in the right place. That GP really should know that being transverse at due date is a reason for hospitalisation. Mind yourself, your baby might be here sooner than you expected!

Good luck Mambo, hopefully she'll be proved an absolute muppet and baby is head down and engaged for you. Like others here DD was transverse til 38+4, I had my bag in the car as I was told I was to be kept in but scan showed she flipped during that week. When I went into labour at 41 weeks they did a quick scan to make sure she was still head down, since she was I had a normal birth.

They'll probably scan you today but make arrangements for child care/ bag in the car just in case you are kept in. Fingers crossed for you.

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Just saw this Mambo. Can't believe the GP. You've prob left for hosp at this stage but best of luck, and hopefully the GP's idiocy extends to having got the baby's position wrong.

I'll ignore the last comment (I'll work through trying to get over that bombshell).

Seriously though I hope she is clueless and baby is head down. I can't believe she was so flippant with you though. Give me her name I'll have my people key her car with "Don't mess with the Mambo". I was going to get you a voucher for a salon but I reckon this will give you more satisfaction.

Very best of luck.

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Idiot of a GP. I'd definitely complain about that - far too serious an issue for a GP to be so glib about. Doesn't massively surprise me if it was a locum though. I have almost as little faith in them as I do in many of the GPs I've encountered in the out of hours services.

Good luck. At least in the hospital you'll know for definite if the baby is transverse and have the issue addressed appropriately.

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"Don't look to the approval of others for your mental stability." - Karl Lagerfeld

Sometimes I'm shocked when gp's say sensible things No offence but holy god that's an obvious one!

Ds2 was transverse and obs was talking imminent admission if he hadn't moved. Can't remember but think I was to be admitted at 37 weeks for section shortly after if no movement. In the end I did some of those spinning baby exercises and he moved. PAINFUL and difficult with a transverse baby to lie upside down off a sofa for extended periods of time. Needed significant help getting in to and out of the positions required (and I have practiced yoga all my life! It's a different matter when there's a transverse baby inside you) Anyway, he moved and all was well. It was though, if I recall correctly at the last moment, we were past the "if they don't move by now they'll never move" timeframe so don't despair!

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Aw Mambo hope all will be well,silly Gp with her over the top remark
My favourite colour is pink

Good Luck,We'll all be here waiting....

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Good Luck Mambo - Hope all is ok bloody gp's sometimes you think what am I paying you for???

Keep us updated

Oh and my favourite colour is Red

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Lola x

just an update my cousin who went in today was sent home they scanned her and baba has turned, head down and bum in the air.

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Ds3 turned at 38+ weeks. Like Engol I was doing the spinning babies exercises. I knew when he turned as the pain was unreal and my whole stomach looked like a scene from alien. We could actually make out his head sticking out my side before moving down my stomach, and then could see his feet moving upwards. Cool but gross.
Pink

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Hope you're okay Mambo.
My first was transverse but I had a heavily medicated pregnancy so had a section at 38 weeks - just after she turned head down

Hope all is well, and I've written this in my fav colour

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That's great news.

Hope you are okay Mambo.

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I had my first that way, he was turned a few times but went back each time. He came shoulder first and it wasn't funny. ( 1986) there is no way they would ask you to deliver like that now, though they will turn the baby, and if it keeps turning back they may suggest a C section.
My last baby was a spinner too, she was footling breech at 39 weeks and obs felt that she probably would turn herself when I went in for a section so left it to see what would happen, by 40 weeks she was in the right direction but was transverse when I went into labour so altough I tried to deliver her VB, I had to have an emergancy C section. So I suppose you can leave it until 40 weeks and then if the baby is still transverse go for a elective section. It is easier than an emergancy, and it is probably at that stage the best way to go. You could opt for having the baby turned, but remember some will turn back themselves.

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