Perinatal mortality was more in relation to
footling breech.
You will see a tail, but no feet for a frank breech; you will see two hooves facing up for a
footling breech.
Nine days into treatment, at 23 weeks' gestation, 210 hours after membrane rupture, a 415-g live-born girl was delivered spontaneously in
footling breech with Apgar scores of 1 (1 min) and 5 (5 min).
One midwife, Diane, who was direct-entry and apprenticed before she became a CNM, recently did a
footling breech in the water, and a shoulder dystocia with the baby's cord wrapped around its neck.
He was a
footling breech birth, but was normal upon examination, fed well, and discharged from the nursery after 24 hours.
One said she had a safe and successful home birth with the same complication as Koberstein - a
footling breech delivery where the baby emerges feet first.
The staff weren't able to touch him because he was a
footling breech, which means if you try and help them in any way, you could damage their necks.
Standard procedure for paramedics and EMTs encountering a
footling breech birth was to transport the patient to a hospital immediately.
Shanley describes her own four unassisted births, including one
footling breech and a 5 week premature birth where the baby dies (which she says was a manifestation of her desire to miscarry).
In general, the consensus panel concluded that the cesarean presents a lower risk to the infant than a vaginal delivery when a breech fetus is 8 pounds or larger, when a fetus is in a complete or
footling breech position or when a fetus is breech with marked hyperextension of the head.
Presentation was
footling breech, and fetal heart sounds were present.
While patients having multiple pregnancy, preterm labour, fetuses with congenital anomalies and complicated breech presentation [ previous cesarean section, macrosomic fetus ( Greater than 4kg),
footling breech, premature rupture of the membrane] were excluded from the study.
