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Hi, I´m also new here, my name is Carol, I have 3 boys aged 10, almost 8 and another who will be 2 at the end of the month. I´m 25 weeks pregnant with 2 more boys!! I´m very happy, but sometimes I´m terrified!

I went to my OB on wednesday and one of my babies is breech (baby A) and the other is tranverse. Is there something I can do to make them both vertex? My 3 sons have been delivered vaginally and I really want to avoid a c-section. My last one was breech until 35 weeks, I began crawling and doing pelvic tilts and he turned vertex. But I´m wondering if this methods will help with 2 babies. My Dr. wants to deliver vaginally ONLY if both of them are vertex.
Thanks, and hoping to meet each one of you,

Carol

 

I havnt really got much advice as both mine were head down from the start but i wanted to say congratulations and :welcome: to twinstuff! x

 

:wavey: Carol and Welcome to Twinstuff!! Congratulations on your twin boys! :itwins_boys: You are in for the best ride of your life. I have no advice on how you can try and have them turn in there for you, sorry.
I hope the rest of your pregnancy goes smoothly!

 

Congratulations on your pregnancy and welcome to twinstuff! I don't know of any tricks to get your babies to turn but there is still plenty of time. My boys ended up both breech, though I was destined for c section because my ob doesn't do VBAC's, but my baby A was vertex right up until the last week before he went breech. Good luck- I hope they turn for you!!

 

Hi Carol & WELCOME!!
Congrats on your pregnancy :clapping:

I don't have any great advice for getting babies to turn, my Baby 'b' turned all the way up until the very end ~ I am sure you will find lots of great advice on here :good:

 

Yay for all BOYS! :banana: I have 3 as well.. Congrats!

 

Congrats!

 

Hi Carol, welcome to Twinstuff! :wavey: Congrats on your boys! :Clap:

 

:wavey: Hi Carol!! Welcome to TS and Congratulations on your Twin Pregnancy!! Wow, 5 Boys!!

 

Congrats and welcome!! I have 3 boys too (10, 8 and 5) and we're preggo with twin girls.... it's gonna be crazy, but so worth it! I'll be interested to see everyone's advice to you re: position b/c my baby b is breech... good luck!
jen

 

Congrats on your twins!!! Sorry I don't have any advice for you, I'm a first time mom with twins and my gynae just told me ytd that I'll probably have c-sec cos my twins are not showing any signs to turn - they're both happily tranverse. :mellow:

 

Nice to meet you!!

 

:woohoo: On your twins and welcome to TS - it has been a greta help to me and I know it will be to you too!

Joanna

 

Congrats and welcome! I am also 25 weeks pregnant with two boys!! These are my first though.
My boys were both breech as of all the ultrasounds done so far, but I've been told there's still time for them to turn head-down. I am REALLY hoping to avoid a c/s too so I hope both of us are able to get those babies turned!

 

I am 29 weeks and since the beginning of getting u/s's at 11 weeks they have moved. It looks like baby a might be head down for good as she has not moved from being head down since 24 weeks, but baby b moves all the time. You have lots of time for them to move.

 

Congratulations and welcome! Mine were transverse up until about 30 weeks, then A turned vertex, but B didn't turn vertex until 38 weeks! I followed the recommendations at Spinning Babies, especially the inversion and the rebozo sifting. (Both of which felt wonderful so I figured they were worth it even if they didn't help!) Anyway, something must have worked! Crawling is good, too, I think. Hope they get their little heads in place for you.

 

Thanks everyone! I have been lurking for a while and I love this board, everyone seems so nice and helpful, i´m glad I finally joined :lol:

 

Well, I can tell you that both of my babies are full on breech with their heads under my ribs and I have been seeking turning advice for months now. Here are the things that you may be told: Some chiropractors specialize in prenatal and can help by opening up you sacro... joint; accupuncture, www.spinningbabies.com; pelvic tilts, laying head down over the edge of the couch so as to allow them room to turn and open up the pelvis; talking to the babies and asking them nicely to please turn around and explaining the benefits of vaginal birth; sleeping with your pelvis above your head (this is so uncomfortable); putting soothing music towards your pelvis at a very low voume so that babies will want to turn to hear it, and also making loud screeching noises towards your belly button to "frighten" baby to a head down position; massage; prayer. I believe strongly in natural birth and have tried ALL of these things to avoid a C-section and my babies are still breech at 36 weeks and 4-days. I do know that unlike a singleton pregnancy, it is not possible to manually turn them; I also know that as long as Baby A is head down, a vaginal delivery should be attempted. Also, my doctor has told me stories of babies turning during labor so I am requesting that I be allowed to labor for awhile before heading staright for the operating table. There are no midwives or doctors in my area that will attempt a breech/breech vaginal delivery, I am bummed over it but still hopeful.