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Permission to Use My Vagina, Please?

February 3, 2015 By Lauren McClain

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!

November 10, 2014 By Lauren McClain

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, […]

Sacrificial Birth

February 4, 2014 By Lauren McClain

Perhaps you've seen the empathy video circulating the web; the one where the sad fox is in a hole and some well-intentioned mammal comes along, pokes her head down the hole and asks if the sad one wants a sandwich? Great video. One of the things the video emphasizes is the unfeeling way we have [...]

Birth Of A Breech & Head-Down baby

January 27, 2014 By Lauren McClain

Elisabeth’s first baby was breech, and mybreechbaby’s first birth story. She recently had her second baby (a vbac), and here she shares some of her story. She has experienced labor and pushing with both a breech and head-down baby, so I wanted to know more of her experiences and thoughts. Tell us briefly about your breech birth. […]

When you fail at birth

November 14, 2013 By Lauren McClain

Maria had a successful VBAC! Awesome! Bekka didn’t. Bekka tried but had an unsuccessful VBAC. Her birth was a failure. Bekka failed. Although “successful VBAC” or “successful natural birth” or even “71% of women who planned it were successful in having a vaginal breech birth” sounds like positive language, it’s actually fraught with emotionally damaging […]