Breech

Jan 24 webinar: Is vaginal breech birth safe?

A curated list of articles about vaginal breech birth since the TBT

North of England Breech Conference (Sheffield, 2017)

Day 1

• Cathy Warwick: Personalization, Education, and Collaboration
• Helen Lowes: A parent's view: Hearing that our baby is breech
• Lawrence Impey: Literature on the management of term breech pregnancy including the RCOG 2017 guideline update
• Frank Louwen and Betty-Anne Daviss: Upright breech--The evidence from Frankfurt
• Johanna Rhys-Davies: Human rights in childbirth
• Panel discussion on breech, part I
• Natalie Khoaz: Clinicians' competency and experience of vaginal breech birth in South Yorkshire (forthcoming)
• Jane Evans: A Day at the breech

Day 2:

• Andrea Galimberti: Day 2 opening address
• Anita Hedditch: The Oxford breech service
• Anke Reitter: The Sachsenhausen breech service
• Julia Bodle and Helen Dresner Barnes: The Sheffield breech service 
• A parent's view: Having our breech babies in Sheffield
• Andrea Galimberti & Paula Schofield: When the birth doesn't go as planned--a manager's perspective
• Gail Tully: Breech complications illustrated
• Anke Reitter: Upright breech skills & recognizing and managing breech complications
• Sophie's story: A complicated breech birth (forthcoming)
• Andrew Bisits: Intrapartum CTG monitoring in breech presentation
• Panel discussion, part II

First Amsterdam Breech Conference (2016)

Day 1

• Welcoming Speeches
• Dr. Frank Louwen: The Re-Invention of Vaginal Breech Birth
• Betty-Anne Daviss: Cardinal Movements and Crowning Touch
• Kok, Sheridan, & Velzel: Three Perspectives on External Cephalic Version
• Gail Tully: Visualizing (Obstructed) Breech Birth
• Irene de Graaf: Risk, Rules, and Reality
• Rebekka Visser: Guidelines and Realities, Dreams and Controversies
• Floortje Vlemmix: Shared Decision Making and Term Breech in the Netherlands
• Lester Bergenhenegouwen: Optimal mode of delivery in preterm breech presentation
• Thomas van den Akker: Who Pays the Price? (Foreign) women, future siblings
• Expert Panel Q&A 

Day 2

• Day 2 Welcoming Speech
• Anke Reitter: New Insights from Pelvimetric MRI Studies & Upright Breech  Maneuvers 
• Shawn Walker: Developing Health Professionals to Support Breech Birth Within a Paradigm of Complex Normality
• Jane Evans: Mechanisms of Breech Birth
• Frank Louwen: Maneuvers for Resolving Complicated Breech Birth
• Leonie van Rheenen: Free choice in birth position, change of practice...An obstetrician’s point of view
• Andrew Bisits: Establishing a Training Course in Breech Vaginal Birth in Australia
• Ken Johnsson & Betty Anne Daviss: The Frankfurt Study on upright breech birth

Heads Up! 3rd International Breech Conference: Washington DC, Nov 2012

Day 1

• Opening remarks by Robin Guy
• The evolution of breech birth
• Robin Lim, 2011 CNN Hero of the Year
• International perspectives on breech
• Tips & techniques for vaginal breech birth
• Physiological breech birth
• Breech research

Day 2

• Core skills for attending breech births
• The impact of choice
• Breech birth in American hospitals
• Breech birth at home: Considerations, safety, and informed choice
• Selection of candidates for vaginal breech birth
• The PREMODA study
• Cardinal movements of the breech baby 

Day 3

• Debate: Is breech normal or pathological? 
• Alternative modalities for turning the breech baby
• The Frankfurt study on upright breech birth (study published Jan 2017)
• Complicated breech scenarios
• Connecting the Dots: The future of birth advocacy

Thoughts & Reactions

• Breech Conference Highlights
• Breech Wishlist
• Taking notes 

2011 Vaginal Breech Workshop: Dr. J. Peter O'Neill and Betty-Anne Daviss

• All about the breech workshop
• New maneuvers

2nd International Breech Conference: Ottawa, Oct 2009

• Heads Up!
• Conference pictures
• Why breech matters
• Day 1
• Day 2 (The Germans)
• Day 2, continued

Upright/physiological breech
Michel Odent on breech
A physiological breech birth in Brazil
The Vermelin method of vaginal breech birth
The art of vaginal breech birth on all fours
New study on vaginal breech birth in an upright position
Photos of an upright breech birth
Breech birth online workshop by Maggie Banks
Books on breech birth (book reviews of Maggie Banks's Breech Birth, Woman Wise and Benna Waites's Breech Birth)
A hands-off breech birth
The dance of breech

Infographics & other information
Severe acute maternal morbidity (SAMM)
Can we predict the likelihood of a successful vaginal breech birth?
How does the Term Breech Trial compare to more recent evidence?
What would happen if all Dutch women had a planned c-section for breech?
Risk-benefit calculus for breech presentation
Perinatal mortality in term breech birth

Interviews and webinars
Is vaginal breech birth safe? Jan 24 2018 webinar
Indie Birth podcast with Dr. Rixa Freeze: Restoring women's choice for vaginal breech birth

External cephalic version
Can a breech baby be turned during labor?

Historical perspectives
Benjamin Pugh's air-pipe: If you can't get a breech baby out, get the air in
Turn of the (19th) century perspective on breech
The Tsovyanov maneuvers for frank and footling breech
Obstetric blinders: cord clamping
Obstetric blinders: Overlooking the obvious solution to breech because "modern" women do not birth upright
A breech conference, 60 years ago
Breech and the art of obstetrics

Breech bans and other controversies
We need your letters to support vaginal breech birth! (Dr. Annette Fineberg, Davis, CA)
Consent for a forced cesarean
Why do I care about breech so much?
My letter to DeKalb Medical (in response to a breech/twins ban)
My letter to Glendale Adventist Medical Center (in response to a vaginal breech ban in LA and Atlanta)
Breech ban at Hudson Hospital
Interview with Dr. Stuart J. Fischbein

Breech birth stories
Update on breech mama who was looking for a provider
Breech birth stories
Twins!
A primip breech birth in Germany
A breech birth in Ottawa
Confidence, competence, and preserving breech birth at home

Breech in Canada
Seeking breech catchers in Calgary

Urgent--searching for breech providers in Nova Scotia

Readings on breech birth

Transcript of CBC radio program on breech births

Breech: What to do next? by Robin Guy

More on breech and the SOGC

Canada does a 180!

Other posts on breech
Reflections on Russia
Two breech presentations in Portland Nov 2017
Breech birth in the developing world
How do medical information and patient preferences affect how a breech baby is born? Translation of an excerpt of a French article by Delotte et al, 2007.
Breech updates
Some links to breech-related news in this post
First-time mom looking for in-hospital breech catcher
Pregnancy: month 5 (attending the 3rd international breech conference in D.C.)
Bottom first, naturally: Resurgence of vaginal breech birth in Australia
Breech wishlist
Safely increase vaginal breech rates with a written protocol
Selective vaginal breech delivery at term--still an option
Vaginal breech, ECV, and NRP workshops
Maternal deaths from placenta accreta
News roundup
Review of the documentary "A Breech In The System" by Karin Eckers
Belly shot: 33 weeks pregnant with Dio
Musings on breech (Dio's pregnancy)
Midwives and doctors talk about breeches
A simple breech birth criteria

Research projects, calls for participants
New study: facilitating vaginal breech birth in hospital settings
Did you have a breech baby? Participate in this short survey
Calling all breech mamas