Carolyn Robertson
posted in CelebritiesIf you have any tips on turning a breech baby, Kim Kardashian wants to talk to you.
With her due date just one month away, the expectant mom reveals that baby #2 is in breech position - and she's trying absolutely every trick in the book to turn him around!
"I lay practically upside down three times a day for 15 minutes," Kim wrote on her app this week. "I play music in the right position and [put] ice on my belly in certain spots to get him to squirm out of the breech position."
That already sounds like a lot, but Kim doesn't stop there. In addition to talking to her doctor about manually turning the baby - also known as external cephalic version - she's trying some less traditional routes, too.
"I even started acupuncture where I burn moxa (mugwort) on my pinky toe every day!" she admits. "I am even attempting hypnosis!"
A look at Kim's second pregnancy...
North's mom reveals the reason why she's so determined to turn her baby boy: She's hoping to avoid a c-section delivery.
Even if her efforts aren't successful, though, Kim hasn't ruled out delivering vaginally. After researching breech births, "I've learned that you can actually deliver a breech baby and I feel fortunate that my doctor Paul Crane is one the the few doctors that still does this. They just don't even teach it anymore," she says, adding that she won't be "jumping into a c-section."
"Obviously, if it's an emergency and for the safety of my son, I will get a c-section," the reality star, who is married to rapper Kanye West, adds. "But if I don't need one, I'd rather not."
For once, I completely understand where she is coming from. My first baby was breech up until just a few weeks before my due date. Like Kim, I did some research. Like Kim, I spent hours lying inverted off the couch a bag of frozen peas on my belly and a flashlight and an iPod pointed in the direction of my vagina. And it worked! Well, I like to think it worked. For whatever reason, my little girl did a last minute flip and ended up coming out head-first.
According to BabyCenter, almost 97 percent of babies are positioned head down by week 37 of pregnancy, and the vast majority of the ones who aren't end up being born via c-section. As Kim notes, though, a vaginal birth isn't entirely out of the question.
In fact, a couple of celebrity moms have told their own stories of natural breech births. In 2013, Homeland star Morena Baccarin - who is currently expecting her second child - said of her son's arrival, “Breech delivery is a dying art and [my doctor] gave me the birth experience I wanted.”
James Van der Beek's wife Kimberly, meanwhile, delivered her breech baby at home. “The idea of getting cut open scared me much more than the idea of trying for something that had been going on since our existence on this planet,” she said after her son's birth.
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