MUST WATCH: Breech Baby Successfully Turned Around

Incredible vision has surfaced of a breech baby successfully being turned inside a pregnant woman’s stomach.

Breech position, which means the baby is either feet or bottom down inside a mother's stomach, affects four in every 100 babies at full term and increases both the chance of complications during birth and the necessity of a Cesarean section.

A Canadian study of 52,671 breech deliveries, published in the May issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology, found that compared with C-sections, vaginal deliveries of breech babies were much more likely to result in an injured infant

After discovering her baby was in the breech position at 28 weeks, American woman Christy Rojas, living in Sydney with her husband Manu, was put in touch with Dr Andrew Bisits, the director of Obstetrics at Sydney's Royal Hospital for Women.

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Nine weeks later Dr Bisits performed External Cephalic Version (ECV) – the technique of manually flipping the baby – which meant Rojas was able to have the homebirth she had planned.

After two attempts, the obstetrician asks her to speak to her baby, and when she talks, the baby flips, and she is able to feel his head down towards her pelvis.

Rojas gave birth to her son Matisse three weeks later on 31 March 2013 at the family's home.

Obstetricians who deliver breech babies operate under a series of strict safeguards and take a cautious approach as labour advances. If the labour stalls or contractions are not regular and strong, a C-section will be ordered. Babies at risk of poor nutrition or with growth retardations are also excluded. They are monitored carefully during labour.

During the past 20 years, the rate of vaginal breech deliveries has fallen dramatically in Australia. In 1996, there were 874 normal breech deliveries; by 2009 the figure had dropped to 485.

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