Here are some wonderful pictures of a home waterbirth. This woman had a section for a breech presentation with her first child. She wasn’t given the option of a birth.
Regardless to your feelings of breech birth there is a choice and women should be given all the information so they can make an informed choice.
This pregnancy she decided to make different choices and employed me to look after her during her pregnancy. She did lots of reading and had lots of options to take up hospital care, scans and whatever else is available to help her make decisions surrounding her birth if she decided at any time she wanted this. She went into labour at around midnight. She decided to labour and birth at home. She laboured well over the next 7 hours and had a lovely water birth of a frank breech who came out quickly and easily with his hand between his legs. He weighed exactly the same as her first born.
This was an easy and beautiful birth. She needed no stitches and mother and baby have speedily recovered. This is quite different from her last experience.
It is important when faced with a baby who is breech not to be cornered into a surgery that you aren’t sure about. Read all the facts, not just blindly believe anything that a Dr may tell you. I don’t mean ignore risk or poo poo information, but research the actual issue not the rhetoric. Choose a care provider who can give you the care that you require in a setting that you feel is appropriate for your needs.
You can read more about breech births from by post Breech a variation of normal and a further breech birth commentary
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love this post. it really warms my heart.
was there a reason that this baby, too, was breech? a uterine septum? just chance?
thanks so much, lisa, for all you do and the stories, images and wisdom you bring to our world.
So happy this woman had a great birth this time! The look on her face in that last photo is priceless.
Lisa. I know my baby might still turn but did you post this for me??!! Kind of fits our last conversation, hey?!
The look on this mother’s face, as she’s holding her brand spanking newborn, pretty much sums it up for me. GLORIOUS ! And when I think that had my second baby not turned, my only *potential* care-provider option (for an attempt at vag. birth) would have been a 2-hr ferry ride away… Love to you, Lisa, and to this gorgeous and courageous mother. xxx
Wow! What a truly amazing story. The strength and courage of this woman is overwhelming. I love the last picture of her holding her baby – the expression on her face says it all. It was all so worth it. Hope Mama and Babe are well.
Dear Oscar, Big smile.
How I wish the midwives at the local Natural Birth Centre here had the confidence and belief in birth to support breech babies and their mothers. Many of us would have avoided traumatic interventions that followed…good on you Lisa for true midifery care!
How I wish the midwives at the local Natural Birth Centre would support breech babies and their mothers. Many of us would have avoided unneccesary interventions and have been left feeling the empowerment and euphoria the mother in the photos so obviously feels. Good on you Lisa for true midwifery care!
I had a c-section due to breech as well and I hope that for my next birth I will be able to deliver naturally, even if the baby is breech.
How does one go about finding a midwife who will deliver breech babies though? I know I can ask them about their experiences. But how do I know that a midwife has sufficient experience?