Breech vaginal delivery

Hey! Has anyone else given birth or planning to birth a breech baby vaginally? Or those who had a baby in breech presentation, were you offered a c section?
I went in to spontaneous labour at 37+6w and my baby was born breech, though this was not detected and thus completely unexpected. I’d love to hear anyone else’s experiences. Despite entering this world bottom first, my girl is perfect and arrived safely, thank goodness!

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My baby was breech almost my entire pregnancy. They’ve offered me a breech vaginal or a ECV procedure. I’ve refused both and decided to go ahead with a C-section as it was the safest option 🫶🏻

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I have a story for you 😅! My second was a breech baby BUT wasn't discovered until 8cm.

Midwife mishap - I had been telling my midwife at my appointments that he was breech as I'd had private scans, she was adamant he was head down/engaged etc I was also meant to have a growth scan as my first was a larger baby (9lb 9) but that never happened either..

I spontaneously went into labour at 40+3, the contractions were horrendous nothing like what I remembered with my first, I couldn't even have a proper cervix check & when one Midwife tried she made me soak my underwear with blood as she didn't seem to care about my pain. I ended up having the epidural & then when the lunch cover Midwife came in she gave me a check & said she could feel bottom & not head, so they brought a scan machine in.. he was infact breech like I had been saying from 34 weeks 🤣 my contractions had slowed due to epidural, so was prepped for emergency c section. I was never offered to carry on vaginally unfortunately 😕

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Continued - I lost nearly a litre of blood and was prepped for a transfusion as my stats kept dropping. Thankfully, I didn't end up needing one. He was born weighing 8lb 12 (so another larger baby 😅) I would have carried on vaginally, but the doctor basically scared me into the c section route. Obviously I am glad me and baby were both safe etc but I definitely felt pushed into the section by fear mongering.

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