Tracy was pregnant with her first baby, a little girl.  During an office visit in her last trimester of the pregnancy, her doctor, Bryan Kruskol, DO, an OB/Gyn on staff at Kishwaukee Community Hospital, discovered that Tracy’s baby was turned in a breech position. Breech deliveries, when the baby is in the position to be born feet-first, can cause many more complications for mom and baby.

In an effort to avoid a cesarean section, Dr. Kruskol recommended a procedure to flip Tracy’s baby into a head-down position, known as an external cephalic version.  The procedure was successful and the baby was turned to the proper head-down position. Two weeks later Tracy came to the Maternity Suites at Kishwaukee Community Hospital and delivered a healthy baby girl through a normal vaginal delivery.  Tracy’s healing time and hospital stay was greatly reduced by avoiding the cesarean delivery.  She was very thankful to Dr. Kruskol in helping to diagnose the baby as breech and resolving the issue several weeks before her delivery.   

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