Talk:Breech birth

message: so i see this article chooses to use him/her a lot.  normally, the english rule is him first, but i think in this case her should go first because that is the default gender of a baby.  you can't accidentally be male, only accidentally not be male do to hormonal complications...seems like a silly thing to do, but maybe someone would agree with me before i do it?
The Rocket Master was born this way. RocketMaster 12:16, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  evenness and pc 

message: I have deleted this sentence which is unanatomical and unclear.   If the author really wants it back, it should be rendered anatomical.  Note:  'down' might be either inferior (as opposed to superior) or posterior (as opposed to anterior).   The proposed mechanism seems to have been copied from a lay text book, and does not appear to be the statement of a experienced individual.
JustAnMD 02:27, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clarification please 

message: Since 1942 there has been a hypothesis that parents may transfer risk of breech delivery to offspring.  establishes that the odds ratio for breech presentation is 2.2 if a parent (either mother or father) was a breech. JFW | T@lk 08:38, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Familial 

message: I recommend merging External cephalic version here.  ECV is used only to treat a threatened breech delivery.  --Una Smith (talk) 23:08, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge ECV here 

message: I was a breech birth. Several years ago (before computers) I did a little medical research on long-term breech births and have speculated that the reasons one twin will have an opposite personality than the other is one twin is often/usually breech. I noticed in some twins I've known, one will be of the heart (spiritual) whereas the other will be mental (scientific). Some of the psychological complications I found associated with breech birth are schizophrenia, dyslexia, learning disabilities, violence. Raquel Baranow (talk) 17:34, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Breech Birth & Personality 

message: Any animal born from a vagina can have a breech birth. Why is this article entirely specific to humans? Mnealon (talk) 04:29, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Because from an obstetric perspective, the problems with animal births are so different and varied as to not be mutually informative. Delivering a breech foal is different from a puppy stuck in the birth canal when some of the litter have been delivered and others haven't. Check out the insufficiencies of veterinary obstetrics, where complications of birth and delivery among domestic or zoo animals would be more informative for readers who looked up that topic. It would be worth a summary paragraph here at the end and a mention at the beginning about animals, but I don't see how all the problems with the current article can be addressed if we muck up the topic further by throwing animal births, in their infinite variety, into the mix. Just a drive-by comment from someone not involved with the article. Cynwolfe (talk) 15:39, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Human only? 

message: The first sentence of this article: "A breech presentation is defined as the condition in which the baby is in longitudinal lie and the podalic pole presenting at the pelvic brim with the head occupying upper pole of uterus." - is a pretty poor start to this article, in my opinion.  It may be a valid medical definition of a breech birth, but it's probably not comprehensible to most non-medically-trained people.  It seems best to me for most Wikipedia articles to begin defining and describing things in terms that ordinary people can understand, and for technical details to be given later in the article, where those wanting more information (and able to understand it) can continue reading to.
I *think* the first sentence is simply saying that a breech birth is one where any part of the baby other than the head comes out first - rather close to what the third sentence is saying - but I'm not totally sure.
Perhaps the opening needs to be reorganized, and the third sentence could be worked into the first, and the first (if it does add extra information) could be given a bit later.  But I don't feel I know enough about this topic to attempt this myself. M.J.E. (talk) 04:05, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  First sentence is obscure. 

message: Dear Sir/Madam I would like to contribute to this section with Figure. Figure is showing incidence of presentation and lies from 10th gestation week until birth. Showing this Figure to readers will allow them better clarification of changes during gestation. I have permission from the publisher of this journal. Due to regulation of Wikipedia, I cannot post this Figure. username Sekulic1965  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sekulic1965 (talk • contribs) 09:14, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Figure after first paragraph in section related to etiology of breech presentation