There are a passel of questions that people who are having a baby together ask each other:

Such as, who's going to be the primary caretaker?
Or, do we want to know if it's a boy or a girl?

Maybe they should add another to the list: "Were you born feet first?"

A new study out of Norway suggests that genes play a strong role in determining whether a baby will be a risky breech delivery.

Scientists from the University of Bergen studied nearly 400,000 births in Norway between 1967 and 2004, and found that babies were two times as likely to be breech deliveries if either or both parents were born feet first.

The researchers say knowing the parents' history could help prevent breech births, which make up an estimated 5 percent of births and put the baby at higher risk of death and injury than babies born head first.

There are different exercises pregnant women can do to help turn the baby head-down. Or the doctor could try to manually move the baby from outside the abdomen. Like this:

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