Vaginal Breech Birth
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There is a revolution coming to America in vaginal breech birth. American doctors and midwives had all but lost the skills to help a breech baby out and instead, developed a style that actually increased the risk of harm. The lack of skills, or dare I say, wrong skills, are spreading in other countries, too. Yet, here and there, providers have held on to the skills. Lately, international parent-to-parent and provider-to-provider sharing through internet or conferences connects the midwives and doctors who maintain physiological breech skills. Increasingly, parents are able to choose vaginal breech birth.
This article is in development. I hope to write about the issues of vaginal breech birth as I understand them. I'm not a breech expert. My experience with breech vaginal birth is small. For those of you with more experience, or simply with other experience, I invite you to email me @Spinning Babies . com and expand our knowledge base with shared stories, stats, and revelations. Visit UnderstandingBirthBetter.com, the website of Betty-Anne Daviss and Ken Johnson of Ottawa for their up to date Breech information and published journal article, and the AIMS website to read Mary Cronk's article on physiologic breech birth, Keep Your Hands Off the Breech. Jane Evans has just published two articles on breech cardinal movements and spontaneous maternal movement to birth the breech head in the 2012 February and March issues of Essentially MIDIRS. This is essential breech knowledge for all baby catchers.
