In case of breech presentation after 35 weeks, health care providers often try to manually guide the fetus into the right position for birth or the head-down position. This procedure of turning a ...

Background: External cephalic version (ECV) is recommended by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists to convert a breech fetus to vertex position and reduce the need for cesarean ...

When I found out I was pregnant with my second child, I thought I knew what I was getting myself into. I had done the whole pregnancy thing before and I figured everything would be about the same. Boy ...

When Vanessa Fisher's baby was breech (feet facing down) at 38 weeks, she tried "a number of other methods to turn the baby naturally" before his birth, but to no avail. Wanting to avoid a C-section ...

The authors matched 197 women who had undergone successful ECV with the next 2 women of similar parity, gestational age, delivery history and type of labor who presented for labor management. They ...

Q: My friend just found out her fetus is breech, and she is going to have the doctor try and turn it around. Why is this done? A: Early in pregnancy the fetus may do "somersaults," and sometimes be ...

Quantifying the cost and effectiveness of ECV for breech presentation compared to scheduled cesarean is complicated because ECV does not always result in a cephalic presentation and subsequent vaginal ...