Also, twins and having low amniotic fluid are associated with breech presentation," Rankins said. She added that breech presentation at birth occurs in about 3% of full-term pregnancies.

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Even before publication of the Term Breech Trial in 2000, Cesarean delivery use had grown to the majority of term breech presentations in such developed countries as the United States (84% in 1997 ...

Pregnant women should be offered an alternative to caesareans if they are facing breech births, experts say. In the UK, 11% of caesareans are performed due to breech presentation, the Obstetrician and ...

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 ...

Breech births can be hazardous and tricky to diagnose. Currently, midwives and doctors tend to rely on the shape and feel of the mother's bump to check.

All eligible women with breech presentations who are near term should be offered external cephalic version (ECV) to cut down on the number of cesarean deliveries, according to a new practice ...

Blood samples were collected before ECV. Women with breech presentation at 35 weeks were part of the study. The ECV success rate was 55%, with 85% in multipara and 39% in primipara.

Fetuses found to be in the breech presentation have limited motion of their lower limbs. The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that bone speed of sound (SOS) would be lower in infants ...

Breech births can be hazardous and tricky to diagnose. Currently, midwives and doctors tend to rely on the shape and feel of the mother's bump to check.