Most breech babies are born healthy. However, they do have a higher risk for certain problems than babies born head first. Birth defects are slightly more common in breech babies. A birth defect may be the reason they have not moved into the right position before birth.
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Neonatal outcome of breech babies in Toa Payoh Hospital 1984-1989.; Most birth defects were minor in nature. Only 10% of birth defects were major malformations. 5.9% (34) of all the breech babies were low birth weight (LBW), ...;
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Information for women about breech babies from the American Academy of Family Physicians. ... Some breech babies may be safely delivered from the vagina. However, more complications can occur if the baby is breech. A baby who is breech may be very small, or it may have birth defects that are caused by a breech delivery.
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Some breech babies may be safely delivered from the vagina. However, more complications can occur if the baby is breech. A baby who is breech may be very small, or it may have birth defects.
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Anything that prevents this can be a cause for breech presentation. Potential causes: abnormal uterine contours, tumors in the pelvis,twins, polyhydramnon, which means excessive amniotic fluid, placenta previa, meaning placental location in the lower ... Therefore a lot a breech babies are delivered via C.Section.RM...
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Also, it was found that about 16% of breech babies had a neurological deficit of some kind. "It's surmised that these babies had damage to the head during birth," Hoover explains. ... In some cases breech presentation is linked to birth defects.1 If you're in the final weeks of pregnancy, your ob-gyn can tell you more about...
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The delivery can occur without help from a health professional (spontaneous breech birth). During a spontaneous breech birth, the fetus comes out of the vagina without problems. The health professional just supports the fetus's body as it emerges from the birth canal.
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deliveries, babies born with umbilical cords wrapped around their necks and even those injured during birth, Raine said. Injuries were recorded at the time of birth by an obstetrician and a midwife, though there was no obvious brain damage in any case, Raine said. ... Breech Birth Psychology Bulletin;
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I stayed up all night last night worrying and then to make things worse, when I started researching breech babies on the internet I read on a couple of sites that 7% of breech babies are breech because they have birth defects.
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All four of my kids have been breech (three transverse and one footling).  One did turn the last week though to head down.   They have no birth defects, ... I've never had a breach baby by the time of delivery, but I know several people who have.  There babies were all born just fine- no problems with the babies at all! ...
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