A small number of women may experience bleeding behind the placenta and/or damage to the womb. About one in 200 babies need to be delivered by emergency caesarean section immediately after an ECV as a result of these complications. ECV does not usually cause labour to begin.

How long after ECV did labor start?

Out of the 67 cases of successful ECV, five (7.46%) fetuses reverted back to either breech presentation or transverse. All of them presented in labour, between 9 and 24 days after ECV, and had emergency caesarean delivery.

Is labor induced after ECV?

Induction of labor after successful ECV is associated with an increased risk for cesarean delivery when compared to spontaneous labor after successful ECV as well as induction of labor in spontaneous cephalic presentation.