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  1. Fetal presentation before birth

    Frank breech. When a baby's feet or buttocks are in place to come out first during birth, it's called a breech presentation. This happens in about 3% to 4% of babies close to the time of birth. The baby shown below is in a frank breech presentation. That's when the knees aren't bent, and the feet are close to the baby's head.

  2. Transverse Baby Position: Causes and Safe Delivery

    A transverse baby position, also called transverse fetal lie, is when the fetus is sideways—at a 90-degree angle to your spine—instead of head up or head down. This development means that a vaginal delivery poses major risks to both you and the fetus. Sometimes, a transverse fetus will turn itself into the head-down position before you go ...

  3. Fetal Presentation, Position, and Lie (Including Breech Presentation)

    Fetal lie: Relation of the fetus to the long axis of the uterus; longitudinal, oblique, or transverse. Normal fetal lie is longitudinal, normal presentation is vertex, and occiput anterior is the most common position. Abnormal fetal lie, presentation, or position may occur with. Fetopelvic disproportion (fetus too large for the pelvic inlet)

  4. Fetal presentation: Breech, posterior, transverse lie, and more

    Fetal presentation, or how your baby is situated in your womb at birth, is determined by the body part that's positioned to come out first, and it can affect the way you deliver. At the time of delivery, 97 percent of babies are head-down (cephalic presentation).

  5. Fetal Presentation, Position, and Lie (Including Breech Presentation)

    In face presentation, the baby's neck arches back so that the face presents first rather than the top of the head.. In brow presentation, the neck is moderately arched so that the brow presents first.. Usually, fetuses do not stay in a face or brow presentation. These presentations often change to a vertex (top of the head) presentation before or during labor.

  6. Transverse Baby Position: Causes, Symptoms, Delivery

    What Is a Transverse Baby? Although rare, a baby can be in a transverse lie position in the third trimester. Here's what that means and how it impacts delivery.

  7. What to Know About the Transverse Baby Position

    A transverse baby increases the risk of umbilical cord prolapse (when the umbilical cord comes out before baby), says Braden. This can be an emergency situation because it can cut off oxygen supply to baby. If labor begins when baby is still in transverse lie, a c-section is generally necessary, says Smead.

  8. How to Turn a Transverse Baby (and Avoid a C-Section)

    A transverse baby position means the baby is lying in the womb sideways. It is normal for babies to be in this position in the early weeks and months of pregnancy. ... A transverse lie presentation can cause very serious complications during labor and birth. Some of the complications are:

  9. Transverse fetal lie

    Transverse lie refers to a fetal presentation in which the fetal longitudinal axis lies perpendicular to the long axis of the uterus. It can occur in either of two configurations: The curvature of the fetal spine is oriented downward (also called "back down" or dorsoinferior), and the fetal shoulder presents at the cervix ( figure 1 ).

  10. What is a Transverse Baby?

    What is a Transverse Baby? In the final weeks of pregnancy, babies often settle down in a head down position. However, in rare cases, the baby can be seen lying sideways or in a transverse ...

  11. What happens when my baby is in transverse lie?

    Transverse lie means that your baby is lying sideways across your tummy, rather than in a head-down position (NHS 2020).It's a common position for your baby in early pregnancy (NHS 2020).Most babies will get themselves into a head-down position by the end of the final trimester, if not before (NHS 2020).Read on to find out what will happen if your baby is still in a transverse position towards ...

  12. 7.6 Transverse lie and shoulder presentation

    7.6.1 Diagnosis. The uterus is very wide: the transverse axis is virtually equivalent to the longitudinal axis; fundal height is less than 30 cm near term. On examination: head in one side, breech in the other (Figures 7.1a and 7.1b). Vaginal examination reveals a nearly empty true pelvis or a shoulder with—sometimes—an arm prolapsing from ...

  13. Fetal Position

    Fetal position reflects the orientation of the fetal head or butt within the birth canal. Anterior Fontanel. The bones of the fetal scalp are soft and meet at "suture lines." Over the forehead, where the bones meet, is a gap, called the "anterior fontanel," or "soft spot." This will close as the baby grows during the 1st year of life, but at ...

  14. Understanding Transverse Baby Position: What You Need to Know

    This involves a physical examination where our OBGYN assesses the fetus' positioning in the mother's abdomen. If the baby is transverse, the "presenting" part is the shoulder. If the doctor can't assess and feel the baby's bottom and head around the base of the uterus, it is a sign of transverse presentation. 2. Ultrasound.

  15. Your Guide to Fetal Positions before Childbirth

    Breech presentation happens when your little one's feet or buttocks are in position to be delivered first, and make up just under 5 percent of all pregnancies. Your provider will likely order an ultrasound toward the end of your pregnancy if they suspect your baby is in a breech position. ... Lying Sideways (Transverse Lie) When baby is ...

  16. Fetal Presentation, Position, and Lie (Including Breech Presentation

    Fetal lie: Relation of the fetus to the long axis of the uterus; longitudinal, oblique, or transverse. Normal fetal lie is longitudinal, normal presentation is vertex, and occiput anterior is the most common position. Abnormal fetal lie, presentation, or position may occur with. Fetopelvic disproportion (fetus too large for the pelvic inlet)

  17. Abnormal Presentation

    Fetal presentation means the part of the fetus that is "presenting" at the cervix: Cephalic presentation means head first. ... Transverse lie occurs frequently in early pregnancy, when it is of no consequence. At 16 weeks gestation, about half of all pregnancies will be transverse lie. This number steadily falls as pregnancy advances and the ...

  18. Transverse Lie Baby Position: Causes, Complications & Treatment

    The most common transverse lie causes are: An abnormal amount of amniotic fluid in the womb. Being pregnant with twins. Flexible abdominal muscles, which make it easier for the baby to move around in the womb. Malformations of the uterus or obstruction of the birth canal due to some reason.

  19. Transverse presentation

    transverse presentation. presentation, in childbirth, the position of the fetus at the time of delivery. The presenting part is the part of the fetus that can be touched by the obstetrician when he probes with his finger through the opening in the cervix, the outermost portion of the uterus, which projects into the vagina.

  20. Presentation (obstetrics)

    Presentation of twins in Der Rosengarten ("The Rose Garden"), a German standard medical text for midwives published in 1513. In obstetrics, the presentation of a fetus about to be born specifies which anatomical part of the fetus is leading, that is, is closest to the pelvic inlet of the birth canal.According to the leading part, this is identified as a cephalic, breech, or shoulder presentation.

  21. Fetal presentation: how twins' positioning affects delivery

    When the first twin's (the lower one) head is down, but the second twin isn't, your doctor may attempt a vaginal delivery by changing the baby's position or doing breech extraction, which isn't possible if the second twin weighs much more than the first twin.. The rates of emergency C-section deliveries for the second twin after a vaginal delivery of the first twin are higher in second twins ...

  22. Is Trump Involved With Project 2025?

    DEI and LGBTQ Rights: Project 2025 seeks to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion programs from throughout the federal government and in universities, and while it doesn't outlaw same-sex ...

  23. Functional somatic symptoms in Emergency Department frequent presenters

    Mean ED presentations in the FSS group during the study period were significantly higher than in the non-FSS and Pos-FSS groups (p < 0.01). Anxiety was found to be the primary psychological distress indicator associated with ED presentations with FSS. We found that, amongst frequent ED presenters, patients with FSS presented significantly more ...

  24. What We Know About the Global Microsoft Outage

    But Microsoft had also said there was an earlier outage affecting U.S. users of Azure, its cloud service system. Some users may have been affected by both.

  25. RNC final day features Trump: Here is the theme tonight

    The fourth and final day of the Republican National Convention calls back to former President Donald Trump's slogan with the theme "Make America Great Once Again." Trump is expected to ...

  26. Bangladesh protests: Anger over job quotas escalates into deadly ...

    Huge protests across Bangladesh escalated into deadly violence this week with clashes between students, pro-government supporters and armed police fueling widespread anger over civil service job ...

  27. Here's what we know about CrowdStrike, the company potentially to blame

    The global outage impacts a raft of Australian companies and government agencies. Here's the latest on the company reportedly responsible.

  28. What Is CrowdStrike?

    That means when errors occur, the ripple effect can be significant. CrowdStrike updates its security software automatically and silently. A flawed update on Friday morning, of its Falcon Sensor ...

  29. What is CrowdStrike, the company linked to the global outage?

    The global computer outage affecting airports, banks and other businesses on Friday appears to stem at least partly from a software update issued by major US cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike ...