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More Essential Oils for Breech

August 26, 2013 By Lauren McClain

More Essential Oils for Breech

     An acupuncturist at the last Coalition for Breech Birth conference explained that in Chinese medicine, babies are breech because of too much yin (female) energy.  The goal then, in turning babies, is to increase the yang (male) energy of the pregnant woman to balance her body and allow the baby to turn head down. […]

Filed Under: Breech, Turn a Breech

MyBreechBaby’s first birth story

August 12, 2013 By Lauren McClain

MyBreechBaby’s first birth story

Thanks to this beautiful mom who shared her story of a homebirth with a surprise breech. She made the decision herself to transfer to the hospital in labor. I especially love her reflection in the last paragraph where she discusses her thoughts about what happened.  Thanks Elisabeth!       Labor had begun.  Though it was […]

Filed Under: Birth Stories, Breech

Pregnancy Posture

August 3, 2013 By Lauren McClain

Pregnancy Posture

This is part of a series of posts on Breech as a Symptom of Exposure. Those of us with breech babies know the nagging feeling that we did something to cause the malposition of our babies. Clinically, we’re told that breech babies are an enigma, that there’s precious little we can do to influence the […]

Filed Under: Breech, Exercises for Birth, Healthy Pregnancy, Turn a Breech

Essential Oil to turn a breech

February 20, 2013 By Lauren McClain

Essential Oil to turn a breech

  A friend of mine recently introduced me to essential oils for healing. These therapeutic grade essential oils can help with all kinds of problems, physical and emotional. I looked into the use of oils to help turn a breech baby. I found a number of references to peppermint and myhrr. These oils are both […]

Filed Under: Turn a Breech

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