Can I have a natural delivery if my buttocks are exposed first

Release time : 03/12/2025 09:30:01

Posterior foot presentation is a relatively common abnormal fetal position disorder, predominantly occurring in pregnant women with premature births, and less frequently in those delivering at term.

The normal position of the fetus is that the head is in the pelvis, while breech presentation occurs when the baby's buttocks are at the entrance to the mother's pelvis.

What are the potential hazards of breech presentation for both the child and the mother? It is often said that children born by natural childbirth are more intelligent.

So, can labor be delivered smoothly by showing your buttocks? Can a baby show be a natural labor? Every woman who has given birth must know that production is a hurdle for women! The production went smoothly, but encountering difficult labor was really equivalent to going to the gates of hell.

Compared to the past, modern medical standards are still quite advanced. Based on the actual conditions of pregnant women and infants, methods for childbirth are selected, resulting in relatively high rates of safe delivery for babies with breech presentation. Many new mothers are very curious about whether breech presentation can be delivered vaginally. Here, I'll briefly explain this.

The risk of a breech presentation in a vaginal delivery is relatively high. This is because the breech presentation poses significant challenges in childbirth, with most doctors being hesitant to recommend vaginal delivery for fear of increased risks associated with prolonged labor. These risks include potential damage to the newborn due to hypoxia during birth, which could lead to serious consequences such as death in utero.

Therefore, generally speaking, doctors recommend cesarean section for expectant mothers.

However, if the expectant mother and family members insist on a natural childbirth, it is also not impossible.

However, we must first make psychological preparations and preliminary preparations for production. The expectant mother must have good physical fitness and firm confidence in requiring natural delivery.

Expectant mothers should select between vaginal delivery and cesarean section based on their individual circumstances, and should be aware of the potential risks associated with vaginal delivery.

The age of the expectant mother, the number of births and pelvic conditions, the type of baby's breech presentation, the size of the fetus, etc. will determine whether the expectant mother can choose natural delivery.

What examination should I do for hip presentation? Expectant mothers must go to the hospital for regular examinations to check the baby's development and fetal position, and promptly discover abnormal fetal position such as breech presentation so that doctors can treat and correct it and formulate safer production methods, which will help expectant mothers to be safer. Production ensures the health of the baby.

So what check should I do for hip presentation? Expectant mothers can try to do a self-examination themselves. Generally speaking, expectant mothers with hip presentation will usually feel a round and hard fetal head under their ribs.

If you find yourself having such a behavior, you should go to the hospital for a check-up as soon as possible.

Because the fetus presents its buttocks, it often leads to uterine contraction and slow cervical expansion, which prolongs the labor time.

This is very unfavorable for expectant mothers to give birth. Excessive delivery time will cause excessive blood loss and easily cause shock.

Breath presentation can generally be confirmed by abdominal, anal and vaginal examination, or B-ultrasound examination.

B-ultrasound is a relatively intuitive and quick examination method, and it is also the most common examination method. It can accurately detect the type of breech presentation, the size of the fetus, the posture of the fetal head, etc.

Expectant mothers can choose the examination method based on their actual situation.

What are the causes of baby breech presentation? Butch presentation is one of the common causes of dystocia, so how should expectant mothers avoid butch presentation? Let's learn about the causes of baby breech presentations. The expectant mother's pelvis is too narrow and the pelvic cavity is blocked by tumors, etc., which are all reasons why babies are prone to hip presentation.

Therefore, before expectant mothers become pregnant, they must do a good job of examination and prevention, which can reduce the occurrence of hip presentation to a certain extent.

Secondly, premature birth is also relatively easy to cause hip presentation, so we must pay more attention to daily work and healthy diet, pay attention to safety, and avoid premature birth of babies.

Other reasons may be congenital malformation of the expectant mother's uterus, which is excessively narrow, which makes the fetus have insufficient space to move, causing the fetus to have a hip presentation; or the fetus's poor development and deformity, or the expectant mother's poor health, too little hydramnios, etc., causing the fetus to have a hip presentation.

This could also be due to the infant being too young, with a limited range of movement within the uterus, which could lead to the infant's position not being correct and presenting in a breech.

At the same time, it could also be due to excessive amniotic fluid, which causes the uterine wall to relax and allows the fetus to move freely within the uterus, resulting in a breech presentation.

What are the risks associated with breech presentation in infants? We often see on television that a certain expectant mother experiences difficult labor, which is actually mostly caused by breech presentation.

Regarding this, it is believed that every expectant mother is very tense about childbirth. So what are the dangers of occiput posterior position? Let's briefly explain the risks of occipitoposterior presentation for everyone.

Posterior position presents a high risk of difficulty in the labor process for the pregnant woman. The cervix contraction is slow, leading to prolonged labor duration, and may result in excessive blood loss and exhaustion during childbirth, which can easily lead to hypoxia and asphyxiation death in the infant.

Posterior Presentation, whether for the infant or for the pregnant woman, is a very dangerous condition.

Therefore, expectant mothers must undergo regular prenatal examinations to ensure the safety of the birth.

The harm caused by breech presentation is also many. Because the time of labor is too long, it will cause the baby's umbilical cord to prolapse, and increase the mortality rate of the baby.

Simultaneous breech presentation can also lead to congenital malformations in the fetus, such as congenital dislocation of the hip and hydrocephalus.

Trusting that childbirth is an event filled with happiness and anticipation for every family, regular prenatal check-ups are extremely important. They help expectant mothers and their families to understand the development of the baby, enhance the safety of childbirth, so don't be afraid of the trouble, safety production is priority.

The solution to infant occipito-posterior position, as reported, will bring great risk to the mother's childbirth.

What should be done if the baby is in occiput anterior position? Are there any solutions available? The editor here introduces to all expectant mothers the various solutions for the problem of a baby being in occiput anterior position.

During the first 30 weeks of pregnancy, if a mother-to-be encounters a breech presentation of the fetus before 30 weeks, there is no need for concern. This condition occurs because the fetus at this stage is too small to present in the usual way. As the fetus grows, it will gradually change to a head-first position.

However, if the breech presentation of the infant persists after 30 weeks of pregnancy, it should be corrected by going to the hospital.

Currently, the most common solutions for fetal breech presentation include external rotation and pelvic tilt.

At approximately 33 weeks of pregnancy, external version surgery can be performed.

During surgery, it is required to monitor under the B-ultrasound for the purpose of determining the fetal position and fetal heart rate, to avoid endangering the fetus's life.

At this point, the doctor will require the pregnant woman to lie flat with her abdomen exposed.

Doctors will use professional methods to loosen the position of the fetal foot, then turn over the fetus, and finally allow the head of the fetus to protrude first.

During the operation, it is necessary to have the doctor's movements be gentle and intermittent.

During surgery, there may be instances where the fetus exhibits vigorous fetal movements and abnormal heart rate. In such cases, immediate cessation of rotation should be implemented and observation for 30 minutes should be undertaken to prevent harm to the infant.

At the same time, in this surgery, serious complications such as premature placental separation may occur. Patients' family members should be informed of this and should carefully choose treatment methods.

The prone position is considered to be safer and simpler for the treatment of breech presentation, requiring the pregnant woman to empty her bladder and loosen her belt.

Keep the chest and knee on the ground for 15 minutes twice a day.

After one week of continuous operation, you can go to the hospital for a re-examination to see if the baby's fetal position has changed.

This position can to some extent allow the fetal buttocks to exit the pelvis, allowing the fetal head to follow the top of the uterus, but it does not guarantee significant effects for every patient.

The medical information provided in this text is for reference only.

If you feel unwell, it is recommended to seek medical attention immediately, and the medical diagnosis and treatment will be subject to offline diagnosis.