Breech Birth Articles

Did you know if your baby is breech, you can book an appointment into a hospital breech clinic? It can be challenging to find midwives and doctors supportive in vaginal breech birth. Also, you may want to find a health service to attempt to turn your baby head down.

By Dr Rhonda Tombros If you have recently learned that your baby is presenting breech (when the buttocks or the feet are at the bottom of the uterus rather than the head), you are likely to be feeling upset and confused. Regardless of how straightforward your pregnancy has been

Reviewed by Jane Palmer Breech Birth Woman Wise is written by Maggie Banks (a wonderful, passionate Midwife in New Zealand). First published 1998 has had it’s third printing 2004. Published by Birthspirit Ltd.includes 109 gloss pages, 34 black & white photographs and 41 diagrams. This is the must have

By Jane Palmer Breech babies present with their bottoms down and their heads up. When a woman is 28 weeks pregnant, her baby has a 25% chance of being in the breech position. As the pregnancy progresses, the likelihood of a baby staying in the breech position gets smaller.

By Jane Palmer Lack of information or choice, premature labour, medical crises, insensitive or undignified care can all conspire against an active birth and a positive start to mothering.  Jane Palmer describes how her son’s birth didn’t go according to plan. I was 35 weeks pregnant and had found

By Henry Murray The ‘Term Breech Trial’ and its aftermath is a prime example of how evidence itself can be put on trial. Hannah and colleagues’ so-called ‘term breech trial’ (TBT) was published over ten years ago now1, and we still practise in its shadow. Many experienced clinicians urged

By Michelle Underwood I’ve recently joined the maternity staff at Westmead Hospital as the new Clinical Midwifery Consultant. I remember at interview discussing the role as being integral to achieving the objectives of Maternity – Towards normal birth in NSW (TNB) (NSW Health, 2010). We discussed how collaboration between

In around 4% of pregnancies the foetus will present in the breech (head-up) position. While vaginal birth is still possible with the assistance of midwives or doctors skilled in vaginal breech birth, the majority of babies reaching term in the breech position will be delivered by caesarean. One alternative