come hear two breech mamas talk about their natural births

Jodi Rockwell, who had a frank breech baby this summer, and I will be speaking at the upcoming ICAN meeting (the International Cesarean Awareness Network’s Seattle Chapter). 7-9 pm on Monday, the 14th of December at Dragonfly Holistic Healing in Fremont, 760 N. 34th St., Seattle, WA 98103.

icanseattle.wordpress.com/ican-seattle-monthly-meetings/

Resources for Breech Birth

here are the primary websites that helped out when i was looking into my options with a breech baby. i'm dividing the list into four sections:
1.where to go
2.birth stories
3.discussions of breech delivery
4.extended resources (other sites that combine the three categories above)

a footling breech story in Midwifery Today

www.midwiferytoday.com/articles/footlingbreech.asp

a touching story by a midwife who was born breech, discussing her own birth and some of her clients' experiences.

bruno's breech homebirth

Here is my own breech story: my son was born on the 18th of August, 2009 at our apartment in Seattle, weighing in at 7.12 pounds, and 21 inches long. He was footling breech (coming out leg-first) and since we couldn't find a midwife in Washington State to care for us, we planned on driving to Portland to give birth. My labor was very efficient, so we never even made it out the door and had a beautiful surprise home birth. My husband and my mother helped me to catch the baby, and Jesica Dolin, our Portland midwife, was on the phone to give us support. Click here to read Bruno's birth story.

Spinning Babies' post on the breech conference in Ottawa

Spinning Babies Blog: Coalition for Breech Birth Conference

with lots of lovely links!

defending a woman's right to natural childbirth

the intent of this blog is to provide information and options to women who are pregnant with breech or other "high-risk" babies. when i was pregnant and found out that my child was breech, the only option that i was initially given was a scheduled c-section. after two weeks of lamentation, i finally found a supportive community and discovered my options for natural birth. i learned that carrying a breech baby was not "high risk" as i had been led to believe, and that i did not need to surrender to what i considered my worst-case birth scenario (a cesarean) without first giving my body the chance to prove itself. i spent the last weeks of my pregnancy intensively educating myself on the risks and benefits of natural breech birth, and my baby was born footling breech at 41 weeks, in a 5-hour natural, vaginal labor with no complications to mother or child (you can read the birth story here). i would be happy to talk or meet with you to discuss my experiences and your options. you can contact me by the email found in my profile page.