Here are 2 pictures of my daughter’s breech birth. I had a vaginal hospital birth of with twins, and my daughter (baby B) was breech. My doctor was incredible and patiently waited for her to do her thing, but she ended up needing a little assistance as she didn’t want to tuck her chin. I am so grateful that I…
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Mom Holds Baby’s Hand as Born {Surprise Breech VBAC Hospital Birth}
A short history of my previous births: My oldest daughter was a good pregnancy, fairly uneventful, I choose to have a hospital birth for that “in case” reason, and it was probably good that I did, I had a severe postpartum hemorrhage that resulted in blood loss of almost 2 liters. Scary stuff. My son (second born) presented breech and…
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First a Hospital Breech Birth and then an Unplanned Unassisted Birth Story
Hospital Breech Birth My first pregnancy left me somewhat jaded and mistrusting of doctors and hospitals. My baby was breech. He had been breech since the 12 week ultrasound and had stayed that way since. I tried inversions, hot and cold packs, music on my lower abdomen and even handstands to get baby to flip. At 38 weeks he was…
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In the News: Footling Breech Twin Boys…Born ‘A Year Apart’!
I have seen and both heard about this story. I finally read it and realized why. Not only were these twin boys born on different days of different years, but they were born completely natural and BOTH boys were born feet first. Two footling breech babies. Nowadays that is rare as many care providers are not skilled in catching breech…