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There is something they can do, called a cephalic version, to manually help try and move the baby. A doctor uses his hands and pushes on the stomach of the mother to help the baby turn and get into a head down position. This would enable the mother to have 'normal' birth. The doc said that this would be done in the hospital and Katy would be monitored with machines to make sure everything is going well for the baby. There are some risks to the placenta or umbilical cord, but with monitoring they would be able to see if there is a problem. I guess they have had some success, about 50%, with this and the doctor said we should talk it over and decide if it something that we want to do. I guess the procedure can take as little as 30 seconds, or it could take much longer. I've included a link to a YouTube video to give you an idea of what a cephalic version is like.
The doc said they have done hundreds of them at the hospital here in town and only a few times has there been something that has gone wrong where they needed to do an emergency c-section. Obviously you don't think anything will go wrong, but I guess we have learned to be prepared for anything (we would need to be ready for the baby when we went in for the cephalic version just in case) as we just assumed everything would go like it should and the baby would be head down awaiting its birth into the world at this time. So depending on what we decide to do, and I guess what the baby decides to do, we could have a baby in as little as two weeks or as late 4+ weeks.
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