Helping Breech Babies Head South with Moxibustion – Three Cases with Clinical Recommendations

Breech presentation affects three to four per cent of singleton pregnancies, and moxibustion therapy is one of the treatments recommended to patients to improve the chances of baby being head-down at birth. In this paper, the author describes three case studies in which pregnant patients were helped to turn their breech babies using moxibustion alongside other Chinese medicine approaches. These three examples offer a nuanced account of how moxibustion can be applied in real-world practice amongst diverse patient presentations and provides insight into how to support patients in adhering to ongoing self-administered moxibustion to further increase clinical effectiveness and achieve the desired outcome of cephalic presentation.