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35 weeks water leaking and breech
I have had a very hard time with this pregnancy. 35 weeks ago my water
is leaking and now today I found out it is breech and i maybe looking at a c section. I am scared. |
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35 weeks water leaking and breech
On Jun 8, 5:29 pm, NL wrote:
wrote: I have had a very hard time with this pregnancy. 35 weeks ago my water is leaking and now today I found out it is breech and i maybe looking at a c section. I am scared. What kind of breech? Is this your first child? Can you find a midwife/doctor who's experienced delivering breech babies? I have asked my midwife about possible breech deliveries and she doesn't recommend c-section. She works in a hospital and does homebirths as well, but for breech she'd have me come into hospital and she'd find a doc who's experienced with breech deliveries and we'd go that way then. This is my second baby though, and my first had a kind of big head (36cm circumference, that's 14.17 inches), so that might be a factor. But she also says that most babies know what they're doing when they present "bottom down". (Some babies bottoms are just bigger than their heads.) cu nicole The head is up and facing out. The problem is that the fluid is leaking and he does not feel its safe to try and turn the baby. This is my 3rd child the other 2 were vaginal births. I am more worried that I am loosing the fluid and that i will go into labor and have to be rushed into a c section. The idea has always scared me that I would have to have a csection. |
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Oh, look I found something about leaking fluid: Maybe that'll help?
http://en.allexperts.com/q/ObGyn-Pre...fluid-leak.htm Also, a birth story of a vaginal foot first breech delivery at 35 weeks which you may or may not want to read. http://www.homebirth.org.uk/ruth.htm cu nicole |
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35 weeks water leaking and breech
The head is up and facing out. The problem is that the fluid is leaking and he does not feel its safe to try and turn the baby. This is my 3rd child the other 2 were vaginal births. I am more worried that I am loosing the fluid and that i will go into labor and have to be rushed into a c section. The idea has always scared me that I would have to have a csection. you need to find out your care providers policy for breeches, if you don't like it, you need to find another one fast, unfortunately in many places, it just isn't possible to find someone who will deliver a breech, so you also need to ask about options for trying to turn the baby, some people do have the philosopy that babies are breech for a reason, I'm not really convinced either way, I suspect sometimes they are, sometimes there are factors than encourage it, but don't make it better and other times it's just random. Find out if your provider offers ECV and look at places like gentlebirth.org for other ways of turning a breech. Regarding the amniotic fluid leak, has this been confirmed? If it has then your provider is taking very conservative management, as it is an infection risk, though I think more slight than some would have you believe, so some monitoring may be prudent. On the other hand it's normal for women to have very watery vaginal discharge, any possibility it could be that? It could even be urine, if it's a trickle it is difficult to tell where it came from and it wouldn't be that uncommon in a 3rd pregnancy. Cheers Anne |
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35 weeks water leaking and breech
Jenn2 wrote:
The problem is that the fluid is leaking and he does not feel its safe to try and turn the baby. Have you been getting bi-weekly non-stress tests and ultrasounds all the weeks that this leak has been going? What is your AFI? Is there oligohydramnios (low amniotic fluid volume)? My AFI measured low during much of my 2nd pregnancy, so I read up on it. If there is severe oligohydramnios, the breech may be not correctable. So your choices are a C-section with this obstetrician or a vaginal delivery with someone else who is skilled in breech vaginal deliveries. You don't want this OB to try it. I am more worried that I am loosing the fluid and that i will go into labor and have to be rushed into a c section. I had the idea that oligohydramnios could cause premature labor, but when I looked for evidence in PubMed I found none. And I am very, very thorough. Tell us more about this scenario you're dealing with. Maybe we can help. I'm a little confused...how many weeks are you at now? Why should going into spontaneous labor mean an emergency C-section? Pologirl mother of 2 |
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35 weeks water leaking and breech
I had the idea that oligohydramnios could cause premature labor, but
when I looked for evidence in PubMed I found none. And I am very, very thorough. Any chance you could write a few paragraphs on how you do this, where you look etc. I'm trying to research something at the moment I'm getting somewhere, but I think one barrier to progress is just not using the tools as well as possible. I'm using the search on PubMed (via pubmed.com, which redirects), but I'm not clear on what the scope of this is, what proportion of the total it indexes etc. and whether I can narrow searches down, or expand them in some way, I tend to get a lot that are not relevant, then stumble rather than rigorously search on helpful things. When you find stuff, how do you keep track of it, do you copy abstracts into a text file or something? Tell us more about this scenario you're dealing with. Maybe we can help. I'm a little confused...how many weeks are you at now? Why should going into spontaneous labor mean an emergency C-section? I read it as thinking that waters leaking may be sign of impending labour, and hence arriving in the hospital with a breech presenting baby necessitating emergency c-section (even if there is some time, it's still unplanned which means neither mother nor surgeon is prepared, it might be slightly better than a very speedy one, but worse than a well planned one). My suspicion is that leaking waters (which some people don't even believe to exist) would be far far less of a sign of impending labour then full rupture of membranes, which I think has figures of over 90% going into labour within 72, or maybe 96hrs, certainly within WHO guidelines for timing of birth, but a lesser proportion do within in the time many doctors particularly in the US are prepared to wait. Cheers Anne Pologirl mother of 2 |
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35 weeks water leaking and breech
On Jun 8, 6:06?pm, wrote:
I have had a very hard time with this pregnancy. 35 weeks ago my water is leaking and now today I found out it is breech and i maybe looking at a c section. I am scared. You've gotten good advice on what to do about the breech. I hope you end up without a section. But you won't do yourself any good getting all worked up about the possibility. Instead, use this time to prepare just in case. I've had three sections. Some people have very lilttle pain; others have more. You have the right to ask for medication for whatever pain you have. I always got prescription strenght ibuprofen and something stronger like Lortab (I think). You get to take both and it really helps. You also want to have someone at home to help you for as long as possible. I usually had someone around most of the time for at least a week after I got out of the hospital. Try to get some meals lined up and people to take the other kids off your hands. A c-section IS major surgery so don't let anyone make you feel like it's strange that you are in pain or don't bounce back immediately. My first two sections were for breech babies so I really know how you feel. Keep us updated! Leslie |
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35 weeks water leaking and breech
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The head is up and facing out. The problem is that the fluid is leaking and he does not feel its safe to try and turn the baby. This is my 3rd child the other 2 were vaginal births. I am more worried that I am loosing the fluid and that i will go into labor and have to be rushed into a c section. The idea has always scared me that I would have to have a csection. I don't know what to tell you about your situation, just wanted to tell you that I empathize with you and hope everything works out well for you. Having a c-section is one of my biggest fears, it's pretty scary to me, so I totally understand that factor. Good luck.. |
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