This is called a breech presentation, and frank breech (bottom first, with feet up near the head) is the most common type.

"Babies move around all the time during pregnancy, so it's not that the baby gets into a breech presentation and automatically stays that way for the duration of the pregnancy," Rankins told BuzzFeed.

And last year, for the first time, she witnessed the natural breech birth of baby Silas. The resulting images are graphic, but as Karyn writes on her website: Article continues below "We feel ...

But breech, or feet-first presentation, affects up to 4 percent of full-term births. When this happens, doctors must either try to turn baby headfirst in the weeks before birth or perform a ...

All women with a singleton, term gestation (>37 weeks) breech presentation between 2001 and 2011 were included. Exclusion criteria were preterm deliveries (< 37 weeks), multiple pregnancies ...

Around 4% of pregnancies at full term, end up with the fetus in breech presentation in the mother's uterus. A doctor should check whether a baby is oriented the right way for birth during the last ...

This is called vertex presentation and applies to approximately 96 percent of full-term pregnancies. The remaining 4 percent of babies are in the breech presentation, which means that the buttocks ...

Here is a post on a particular problem that some women can face. Around 3 per cent of all deliveries are breech deliveries, which means that the baby is positioned either buttocks down with legs ...