By Lisa Barrett on May 29, 2010
This breech birth has been on my blog for a while but here is the woman’s story.
Our birth story is really much more about the decisions we are sometimes forced to make surrounding antenatal care and childbirth, or rather, decisions that can be taken out of our hands by the hospital system. Had my daughter not stayed resolutely in breech [...]
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Posted in Birth Stories | Tagged Breech
By Lisa Barrett on January 4, 2010
Here is a fantastic video of a frank Breech taken last week.
This woman had an unusual journey into homebirth. She lives in rural Australia and had to come into the city to birth so had booked the birth centre. A few trips and hours driving each time for all the testing etc as the baby is breech. At 36 weeks [...]
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Posted in Breech | Tagged Breech, Video
By Lisa Barrett on November 27, 2009
My husband and computer genius is changing my blog. When finished it will be the most spectacular site on natural birth EVER. I have partly been put off blogging just due to the fact that he has to move all my words to his new baby. The children and now not only childbirth orphans but blog orphans [...]
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Posted in Lisa's Journal | Tagged Breech
By Lisa Barrett on June 19, 2009
New Canadian guidelines reverse the long held thought that all breech babies should get a section and are now confirming what we all know bum down babies can be born through vaginas.
Stand and deliver Blog by a fantastic Canadian woman says it all.
A large piece of research undertaken in Belgum and France shows that there is no difference in the [...]
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Posted in Breech | Tagged Breech
By Lisa Barrett on November 20, 2008
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 [...]
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Posted in Lisa's Journal | Tagged Breech, Homebirth Tale, VBAC, Waterbirth
By Lisa Barrett on May 17, 2008
While I’m in the UK at the international confederation of midwives, I will be spending the day with Jane Evans and Mary Cronk at their world renowned breech study. The importance of keeping up to date, continuously learning from others and re evaluating and reflecting on our own practice can’t be stated enough. Even though I do attend women with [...]
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By Lisa Barrett on April 16, 2008
Breech birth seems to be widely searched on the Internet and information on a normal birth with a breech baby is getting more and more difficult to access.
Breech Baby? Normal Births Getting Scarce
Practitioners experienced in a birth with a woman who’s baby is breech are getting older and there is soon going to be nobody to pass on these skills. [...]
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Posted in Breech | Tagged Breech, Video
By Lisa Barrett on March 28, 2008
To me breech is a variation of normal. Well not only to me, 4% of babies are breech so it must be pretty normal to them too. There is fear and unknown surrounding this which all circles around the “term breech trial” which was extremely flawed and commented on at the time by people like Maggie Banks. Practitioners with no [...]
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