Showing your moxie . . When it comes to being born, plunging head-first through the birth canal is the method of choice. Up to half of moms with a breech-position baby undergo cesarean surgery. A few weeks before birth, about 3 percent of babies are in breech position, with the head up instead of down.
Doctors can try to rotate babies by hand before delivery, but that carries risks.
For centuries, Chinese doctors have tried to accomplish that trick by holding burning herbs near the skin. The procedure, called moxibustion, is cheap, not painful, and apparently harmless to the babies. We hear you. This is strange. But it's worth taking seriously because it survived the peer review at JAMA, the American Medical Association's journal.