What to Do for a Breech? Ask BabyZone
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Deciding Whether to Birth a Breech Baby
A very dear and dynamic midwife from the SW emailed me today asking what breech birth videos might might she share with one of her mothers whose baby is breech at the end of pregnancy. (I’m not much on the word “client” and so far away from the word “patient” that I forget some midwives […]
Blizzard of Breeches
I love this story, so romantic, in the sense of a baby coming during a blizzard. https://douglaston.patch.com/articles/douglaston-brothers-deliver-baby-during-blizzard Guess the baby wanted to test the temp and put his little toes out first. I’d love to know the details. Meanwhile, a midwife texted me that she had a surprise breech with a first time mom. This […]
Breech Updates
The Midwives Alliance conference offered two wonderful presentations on breech. First, Midwife Abby Kinne of Ohio (right, helping a student) taught a day long class emphasizing no-touch but helping midwives get hands-on skills with a wonderful womb-anikin from Australia called Sophie and her Mum. Thanks to Candace Robinson for the pictures. I couldn’t sit back! […]
Breech Elephant Born
Elephants also have a doula with them during birth. A smart zookeeper knows this. A breech baby elephant was born with the help of doula-elephant Num-Oi in the Melbourne, AUS zoo. I remember hearing about and watching Raja’s birth in the St. Louis zoo some years ago. His mother was in a long labor until […]
Breech Birth Comparison
Rae Davies sent along a breech birth link of a clinic birth shown on a NYtimes.com clip. She says about the Frank Breech Birth clip I posted in June, “Thank you for sharing this – it’s refreshing to see after I just watched a film by renowned NY Times Journalist and author of “Half the […]
Frank Breech Home Birth
I’ve just been given permission to post this lovely breech home birth video. This is a third baby, her second natural (vaginal) birth and first home birth for this family. The baby was small and full term. Apgar Scores were 10 and 10. You also see the first 30 seconds after the birth. The t-shirt […]
Breech Sifting
Ok, I haven’t been blogging for a while. Two breech labors lately. Were still waiting for footage from the first to be edited and in the second family the poor little breech guy couldn’t line up on the pelvis so thankfully the warm folks at Hudson, WI welcomed the family in for care and ultimately […]
The Tears of Breech
The Ottawa Citizen heralds the re-newed Canadian acceptance of vaginal breech birth in Elizabeth Payne’s article, Giving Birth the Natural Way. Andre’ Lalonde, head of the Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Canada, said last year, “The safest way to deliver a baby has always been the natural way,” and then began to bring back […]
Israel Joins Canada Increasing Vaginal Breech Birth
Haaretz.com posted an article, Doctors call for fewer C-sections, more training for breech presentations, by Dan Even. Dr. Marek Glazerman (mistakenly called Mark in the article), head of Rabin Medical Center’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, is heralded as a proponent of vaginal breech birth, when appropriate. He spoke up for breech birth even after […]
Funny! More Breech Coincidences
Ok, this is getting weird. I got a series of calls from three women who are all friends in WA state looking for support for the one of them who is at term (pregnant and due) and whoses baby is suddenly breech. They wondered if I knew of any breech resources in Washington state. Well, […]
Teri Posted My Breech Update Pics!
Ok, the topic of breech is so daily in my life right now. I wish I was done with my other projects to travel somewhere for more training. Somethings up. At least we are working on a related project….more on that when its manifested. I got another call today from a birth educator, out of […]