Prince Edward Island Breech Workshop

Register now for the Prince Edward Island Breech Workshop Sep 28-29. This is the only Canadian workshop offered in 2019. To register: bit.ly/peibreech

Thanks to a generous donation from the Coalition for Breech Birth, we are offering two scholarships to the workshop for Canadian providers: one for a physician/resident/medical student and one for a midwife/midwifery student. Any Canadian provider may apply; preference given to providers serving the Maritime provinces & Newfoundland.

To apply: Send an application letter to breechworkshop@gmail.com. Please state your province, qualifications, and how you plan to use the knowledge gained in the workshop in your community.

Deadline: August 14

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Prince Edward Island Breech Workshop Scholarships

The Coalition for Breech Birth has generously donated funds to sponsor 2 scholarships to the Prince Edward Island Breech Workshop! Any Canadian provider may apply; preference given to providers in the Maritimes & Newfoundland.

1 scholarship is for physicians/residents/medical students
1 scholarship is for midwives/midwifery students

To apply: Send an application letter to breechworkshop@gmail.com. Please state your province, qualifications, and how you plan to use the knowledge gained in the workshop in your community.

Deadline: August 14

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Please donate to "Reteach Breech"

My years of breech research and advocacy have finally come to fruition! Please donate generously to Breech Without Borders' fundraising campaign so we can reteach breech. We are raising funds to purchase two obstetrical simulators for our breech training workshops.

If you have ever benefited from reading my blog, following my children's births, watching my educational breech videos, or sharing my breech infographics, please donate today.

If you care about women's autonomy in childbirth, please donate.

If you care about reducing the cesarean rate, please donate.

And of course, please share widely!

I want to create a world where every provider has vaginal breech skills and where every woman can choose how her breech baby is born.

                  

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Madison Breech Conference: Envisioning Autonomy, Biodiversity, and Sustainability

Save the date for the Madison Breech Conference on Nov 9-10! The conference focuses on 3 main themes: autonomy, biodiversity, and sustainability in breech birth.

We'll be discussing barriers to providing breech birth, as well as solutions for providers and administrators. We'll be listening to providers share their struggles and triumphs in supporting breech birth in their various settings: from rural to urban, from family medicine to midwifery to maternal fetal medicine, from supportive hospitals to hostile hospitals. We'll learn about breech birth from a human rights attorney and from a journalist who writes about women's experiences of pregnancy and birth. And of course we'll be teaching breech birth, with hands-on simulation training and an emphasis on physiological breech birth.

This is a conference you don't want to miss! Stay tuned for updates.

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Auckland, NZ Breech Workshop

Breech Without Borders is bringing four breech workshops to New Zealand in November and December. The first takes place in Auckland on Nov 25-26. It will be held at the Kawai Purapura Retreat Centre, just north of Auckland.

Click here to register.

The workshop costs $450 NZD ($350 for students) and includes 15 hours of instruction and hands-on practice. We have applied for continuing education credits through the Midwifery Council.

For more information about the workshops and instructors, please visit www.breechworkshop.com.

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