I am pleased to have a new birth story for the blog, a surprise breech homebirth! Judah’s mom shares with us her difficult first pregnancy and a birth experience out of her control, her realization that doctors are fallible, and her decision to birth at home. I’m thankful she felt comfortable sharing her birth story and writing […]
6 Best Bets For Turning A Breech Baby
I recently put out an info-graphic detailing what I believe are the 6 most effective ways people turn breech babies. External Cephalic Version (ECV) is also a safe and reliable way to flip a breech baby head down, but here I am focusing on things that are less of an intervention. Let’s look at each […]
Acupuncture for Pregnancy & Birth
I met my friend Erin when she took birth classes in Bowie, MD last year. Erin is an acupuncturist and I asked her to share some ways that she helps women. I am especially intrigued by acupuncture as fertility treatment because I have had two couples who went through serious medical treatments, were about to […]
Permission to Use My Vagina, Please?
My good friend, who doesn't even know I exist, is vaginal breech birth activist Robin Guy. She was musing over the sad state of affairs we have with vaginal breech birth when she said, "Why is it that I need someone's permission to use my vagina on this one day?" Robin was talking about her [...]
Bring Birth Back!
I was contacted by the makers of this beautiful info-graphic and asked to post it on the blog. Here it is, definitely worth a scroll. Very approachable for everyone. Please share to increase awareness around the cesarean epidemic. From http://www.toprntobsn.com/bringing-birth-back/Note that 17% of primary cesareans are for malpresentation. Breech awareness, prevention, and vaginal breech birth, […]
