Breech Baby
by Anthony Stewart
“Did you happen to bring the Myrrh?” I asked Sarah as we headed to Tennessee with our two children, Caleb and Joseph. “Got it right here!” answered Sarah.
We also had with us our unborn baby who was about 36 weeks along, and who happened to be turned breech. (This means that the buttocks or a foot would be born first rather than the head.)
We had been planning all along to have the baby at home, as we had with our two previous children. However, the baby being breech gave us some concern, since certain complications can arise during childbirth with a breech that probably would not happen with a vertex baby.
We had been trying for about a week to turn the baby by using the slant board technique. This is where the mother tilts an ironing board at about a 45 angle and lies down with her head toward the floor.
Often times the baby will automatically flip around after the mother has lain like this for ten or fifteen minutes.
We did this three times a day and also tried playing baroque music with headphones at the area of the abdomen where we wanted the baby’s head to be. [Wait, there is more...]
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