An external cephalic version is a procedure used to help turn a baby in the womb before delivery. During the procedure, your healthcare provider places their hands on the outside of your belly and ...

An External Cephalic Version (ECV) or manually turning the baby from outside the mother's abdomen may be attempted to turn a breech to headfirst. Women with breech presentation, reassuring fetal ...

At least one congenital anomaly was more likely present among infants breech at birth (11.7%) than in those with cephalic presentation (5.1%), whether full-term (9.4 vs 4.6%) or preterm (20.1 vs ...

Further analysis could not identify pregnancy related factors that placed women at low versus high risk ... to turn the baby (external cephalic version) to prevent breech presentation at birth ...

Towards the end of pregnancy, your baby will have grown so big that they can't move around very much in your womb. At this time, most babies have taken up a position with their heads down.

Candidates for external cephalic version were offered ... the women who have undergone cesarean section versus vaginal delivery for the term breech. Second, there is a need for a multicenter ...

The additional expense of providing neuraxial anesthesia during the performance of external cephalic version (ECV) in breech fetal presentation may result in an overall cost savings because of the ...

Sometimes after a successful ECV where a baby has flipped to the headfirst position, they can later flip back to breech. And sometimes breech babies flip on their own before birth, though the ...

External cephalic version (EVC) is a procedure performed at 36 or 37 weeks to turn a baby who's breech or lying on her side to the optimal head-down position prior to labor. To perform an ECV ...