breech delivery
Bottom-first baby arrival
A breech delivery is a birth in which the baby emerges buttocks or feet first rather than headfirst.
This position complicates delivery and often requires medical intervention: The doctor prepared for a breech delivery when the ultrasound showed the baby hadn't turned.
Also called breech birth.
- birthingAct of delivering young
- babyVery young child
- feet firstLower extremities leading
- laborStrenuous effort; also childbirth
- birth planPrenatal care document
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- childbirthcontractions, labor, pushing, dilation, birth