Breech baby?  Things you can do to support your baby to turn....

If you find your baby is breech – don’t panic – breathe – in through your nose and out through your mouth – notice what happens in your body when you do that:  you slow down, you relax, you pen.

Then, put up pictures of your baby in the vertex position (head down) around your house.  Put one next to your bathroom mirror, put one on your fridge, put one by door you go out to leave the house so you will see these images and it will plant seeds of cellular memory – to help your baby move.

Some women also turn all the pictures of people in the house upside down.  It will make you giggle, this is also a good thing - laughter heals and shifts energy.

If you are able, go swimming – swimming changes the way your baby experiences weight and the way your body does.  If you are up for it, do headstands upside down for a few seconds in the water – the water will support you and your flipping over will encourage baby to.

Talk to your baby about moving – about turning as long as it’s safe to do so and going head down.  Tell the baby why in your own words, that it will make the birth easier, that you will recover more quickly from the birth, remind the baby that this is the first of many times that you will work together to problem solve.  You are a team – even though your precious one is yet to be born.

Do seek out a qualified acupuncturist who can do moxa treatments to help turn the baby.  Do get an ultrasound or have a practitioner who can palpate accurately that the baby is breech.  If you feel big change, big movement, kicks in a different place than you felt before, stop the moxa treatments, get that baby palpated by your OB or midwife and if that baby is head down, squat – you want to encourage your baby to engage in your pelvis if he’s turned once and is now head down.  Also, thank her for her efforts and remind her how helpful she was in making this happen.

Your baby understands more than you know.