What is Mauriceau Smellie Veit method?

This procedure entails suprapubic pressure by one obstetrician on the mother/uterus, while another obstetrician inserts left hand in vagina, palpating the fetal maxilla using the index and middle finger and gently pressing on the maxilla, bringing the neck to a moderate flexion.

Can you not pull on the breech?

Footling breech presentation. Once the feet have delivered, one may be tempted to pull on the feet. However, a singleton gestation should not be pulled by the feet because this action may precipitate head entrapment in an incompletely dilated cervix or may precipitate nuchal arms.

What is frank breech mean?

Frank breech is when the baby’s legs are folded flat up against his head and his bottom is closest to the birth canal. There is also footling breech where one or both feet are presenting.

What is a breech presentation and why is it a complication?

A major complication of breech presentation is cord prolapse (where the umbilical cord drops down below the presenting part of the baby, and becomes compressed). The incidence of cord prolapse is 1% in breech presentations, compared to 0.5% in cephalic presentations. Other complications include: Fetal head entrapment.

What are the symptoms of breech baby?

Thereafter, the following symptoms and signs are suggestive of a breech presentation:

Subcostal tenderness.
Ballottable head in the fundal area.
Softer irregular mass in the pelvis.
Fetal heartbeat loudest above the umbilicus.
On VE in labour, the sacrum, anus or foot can be palpated through the fornix.

What does it feel like when a breech baby turns?

If your baby is in breech position, you may feel her kicking in your lower belly. Or you may feel pressure under your ribcage, from her head.

What is Burn Marshall method?

The Burns–Marshall method involves allowing the breech to ‘hang’ by its weight until the nape of the neck (or the ‘hair-line’) is visible. This is followed by holding both feet and the fetus on to the maternal abdomen to deliver the fetal head.