Breech Birth: A Normal Variation

Do you have clients who are told they will need to have a cesarean birth because their baby is in a breech position, but your client still wants a vaginal birth?

In today’s episode Lynn talks with mother of 4 soon to be 5, Anna Crow, about her experience with breech birth and how she made her dream of having a natural breech birth possible. 

Anna, originally from WI, had moved to CO and was pregnant with her second child. She found out at 40+ weeks that her baby was breech. She desired a natural home birth, but in the state of Colorado, midwives are not allowed to deliver a breech baby. Anna wound up traveling back to Wisconsin to have the birth she desired with a midwife who had over 500 breech births to her name.

Due to higher liability with a breech birth many physicians are denied learning how to deliver this normal presentation for birth. It is up to moms who desire the opportunity to have a vaginal delivery to reach out to the local hospitals and practices as well as legislators to make the change they desire to hear. If you are interested in learning more, Breech Without Borders is an organization that supports breech births and has resources on their website: https://www.breechwithoutborders.org/. 

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