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Baby Be Breech - Articles
Breech Baby = Cesarean?
by
Sheridan Ripley

Posted
Tue 12 Jan 2010 3:16pm
I am busy figuring out my Hypno-Doula Statistics. This year I had 10 doula clients. 3 of them had breech babies!
They all had cesareans. 2 attempted ECV, 1 the breech baby was discovered when she was 6cm.
None of the moms were presented with an option of vaginal birth. That is getting rarer and rarer since the 2000 study on breech
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Newport Beach Chiropractor: Turning Breech Babies Before Labor
by
DrNona
Posted
Mon 02 Aug 2010 12:15pm
Every mom wants the absolute best for their kids from the moment the baby is in the womb til way into adulthood. To know that your baby is in the breech position and have to go through C-section without actually having a choice. What most moms with breech babies don’t know is that there are soo many ways to help turn breech position babies. Webster
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Autism Substantially More Likely With Breech Babies and Older Moms
by
Harold L D.
Posted
Mon 27 Apr 2009 10:13pm
A new study from the University of Utah School of Medicine in Salt Lake City, and published in Pediatrics, helps confirm earlier findings that babies born in the breech... it is hard not to look at your own autistic child's delivery. His mom was not over 34 at the time but Conor was a breech baby, delivered by cesarean section.
autism
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Unexpected Cesarean due to Surprise Breech Baby
by
Sheridan Ripley

Posted
Fri 25 Sep 2009 10:36pm
was wondering what was up. I heard the word breech and my heart sunk. Ryan and I went in and Dr. Winter explained that Jennifer was 6cm and doing great, but the baby was breech. He....
He said, had it been 20 years earlier she would be an ideal candidate for a vaginal breech birth, because she had already had a baby and her birthing time was progressing well
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Breech Babies CAN be Born Vaginally
by
Kathryn H.
Posted
Tue 07 Oct 2008 7:14pm
A big thank you to Nicole for sharing this fantastic set of videos including a great vaginal breech birth after two cesarean breech births story. And double thanks for bringing us this great interview with the mom who had a vaginal breech delivery at home. We can't let vaginal breech birth disappear!
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Breech Baby!
by
Sara G.
Posted
Fri 04 Jun 2010 5:00am
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In other big news, KitKat is hanging out in the breech position right now, and has been for the last three weeks. Two weeks ago, I was excited because I'd never had a baby... know there's plenty of time for KitKat to turn, and my doctors say not to even think twice about it...but of course, I googled "how to turn your breech baby" today. And boy, did
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Vaginal Birth Better for Breech Babies Says Canadian Doctors
by
Jennifer Lance
Posted
Fri 19 Jun 2009 5:11pm
-sections are no longer recommended for breech babies!
This is contrary to common practice in North America, in which very few doctors or midwives will attempt a vaginal delivery on a breech baby. A c-section is automatically dictated for these babies who want to come out feet first. Canada plans to train doctors in breech vaginal delivery following the new
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Weekend Reflection #59 | Preterm Labor and a Breech Baby
by
Cascia T.
Posted
Sat 20 Jun 2009 10:09pm
was sent home later that evening. They couldn't feed me anything because my baby is breech and they didn't know for sure if I would need a c section that day or not. When my doctor... this technique called an inversion or you can try the breech tilt. But with a transverse lying baby the inversion usually works better. Yesterday I had Courtney help me do an inversion
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Newport Beach Chiropractor: Ways to Turn a Breech Baby
by
DrNona
Posted
Mon 02 Aug 2010 12:03pm
strain are reduced, in a case of a breech baby, it provides more support for the correct positioning of the baby and the baby is more likely to turn. The purpose of the Webster Technique is not to ‘turn breech babies’ but it’s been known to do to so, due to the reduction in tension of the ligaments in the pelvic area as well as opening up the space
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New Research~Acupuncture Is Effective For Turning Breech Babies
by
Tcm007
Posted
Fri 10 Sep 2010 9:55am
in turning breach babies. While these studies are new, Chinese Medicine has been used to help turn breach babies for hundreds of years.
"New research shows that acupuncture is an effective method for turning breech fetuses to the proper position for a healthy vaginal delivery. Five different randomized studies conducted by the Department of Fetal Medicine
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