Breech Birth Top Tips
My Top Tips to achieve a Vaginal Breech Birth
1. Research everything you can about breech birth, so you can make an informed choice!
2. Join a Breech Birth support network near you.
3. Find a health professional who you trust and who will fully support your decision to birth naturally.
4. Choose a birth environment that will best support your choice!
5. Ask lots of questions so that you know exactly how much support you can expect!
6. Meditate regularly and talk to your baby, reassuring them that everything is just as it should be and that you are co-creating this birth together
7. Surround yourself with love and support both before and during the birth
8. Most Importantly TRUST your choices, your body and the natural process of birth
1. Research everything you can about breech birth, so you can make an informed choice!
- www.breechbirth.net
- Maggie Banks, “Breech Birth, Woman Wise”, 1998, Birthspirit books, Hamilton, NZ.
- http://www.inamay.com/article/undervalued-art-vaginal-breech-birth-skill-every-birth-attendant-should-learn
- http://www.scribd.com/doc/2382857/Beyond-the-Breech-trial-Maggie-Banks
- http://www.breechbirth.org.uk
- http://conference.breechbirth.ca
- http://spinningbabies.com/baby-positions/breech-bottoms-up/339-vaginal-breech-birth?showall=1
2. Join a Breech Birth support network near you.
- https://www.facebook.com/groups/breech/
- http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/breechbirthuk/
- http://www.breechbirth.ca
3. Find a health professional who you trust and who will fully support your decision to birth naturally.
- Be aware of the difference between a breech delivery and a breech birth.
- Remember that medical interventions are on the whole, contraindicated to VBB
4. Choose a birth environment that will best support your choice!
- Consider that hospitals have strict protocols to adhere to which may prevent them from allowing you to VBB naturally.
- Birth Centres may be prohibited to support VBB as it is considered high risk.
- Home allows you the greatest choice and control over your environment as you are effectively the one in charge.
5. Ask lots of questions so that you know exactly how much support you can expect!
6. Meditate regularly and talk to your baby, reassuring them that everything is just as it should be and that you are co-creating this birth together
7. Surround yourself with love and support both before and during the birth
8. Most Importantly TRUST your choices, your body and the natural process of birth
