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Frank breech: The fetal hips are flexed, and the knees extended (pike position). Complete breech: The fetus seems to be sitting with hips and knees flexed. Single or double footling presentation: One or both legs are completely extended and present before the buttocks.
6 lis 2022 · The complete breech has the fetus sitting with flexion of both hips and both legs in a tuck position. Finally, the incomplete breech can have any combination of 1 or both hips extended, also known as footling (one leg extended) or double footling breech (both legs extended).
Usually, the head leads the way, but sometimes the buttocks (breech presentation), shoulder, or face leads the way. Position refers to whether the fetus is facing backward (occiput anterior) or forward (occiput posterior). The occiput is a bone at the back of the baby's head.
A complete breech is when your baby is bottom down with hips and knees bent in a tuck or cross-legged position. If your baby is in a complete breech, you may feel kicking in your lower abdomen.
Complete breech: The baby's buttocks point downward, and both its hips and knees are flexed (the fetus is sitting on its folded legs). Footling breech : One or both of the baby's feet point downward and will deliver before the rest of its body.
Complete breech: Here, the buttocks are pointing downward with the legs folded at the knees and feet near the buttocks. Frank breech: In this position, the baby’s buttocks are aimed at the birth canal with its legs sticking straight up in front of his or her body and the feet near the head.
In a complete breech presentation, the legs are tucked, and the foetus is in a crouching position (Figure 6.1a). In a frank breech presentation, the legs are extended, raised in front of the torso, with the feet near the head (Figure 6.1b).
