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A Guide to Physiological Breech Birth
Announcing...the 2nd edition of
A Guide to Physiological Breech Birth!
A Guide to Physiological Breech Birth has undergone an extensive update and revision. Originally published in August 2022, the Guide 2nd edition was released in August 2024. The 2nd edition is full color, hardcover, with 20 main chapters, 28 guest chapters, and 39 parent stories.
A Guide to Physiological Breech Birth is a comprehensive breech training manual and complements our online courses and hands-on workshops. The Guide has hundreds of photographs, many never before released.
You can order the book at our online store. We ship anywhere in the world!
Residents of NZ can also order the 1st edition at a greatly reduced price! They are on sale for $70 each, 5 for $50 each, or 10 for $40 each.
Topics include:
- Evidence on hospital & community breech
- Mechanisms of physiological breech birth
- Normal & abnormal breech birth
- Fetal assessment
- Upright & supine maneuvers
- Breech nomenclature
- Clinical practice guidelines
- Best practices during labor & birth
- Transient neonatal trauma
- Multiples
- ECV & alternatives
Guest contributions include:
- Journeys to becoming breech-skilled
- Advice from experienced clinicians
- Perspectives on safety & risk
- Proactive approach to the pelvic floor
- Perineal suturing
- Palpation & bodywork
- Establishing a breech service
- Bedside resuscitation
- Challenging breech scenarios
Note: All proceeds after shipping costs go directly to our scholarship fund and other global breech initiatives. None of the authors, guest authors, parents, or other contributors received any compensation.
Translations
We are currently translating the 2nd edition into Portuguese, German, and Spanish. If you would like to be involved in translation efforts into other languages, please email info@breechwithoutborders.org with your bio, CV, headshot, and any relevant information about your translating experience.
Tuly van Prehn (Portuguese)
I saw my first birth in 1987, when my sister was born in our house, supported by a traditional midwife, I fell in love about birth, with those hands that receive life.
I finally started in the birth world in 2013, I became a doula through DONA International. I entered the world of traditional midwifery through the knowledge of Rebozo (from indigenous Mayan midwives). I worked in some of the best hospitals in in New England as a doula, trained doulas for a decade and ministered classes with Birthing Gently in the northeast of the United States for years.
In 2018 I started Birthwise Midwifery School program, 3 years, focused on traditional and contemporary midwifery. I did my apprenticeship in Massachusetts with Home Birth Matters, in total I participated in more than 300 births. In 2021 I came back home to where all started and founded Humanascer, a school and homebirth practice, to teach and offer, safe, cultural centered care for whoever wants the experience of homebirth. In 2023 I had my own very challenging 5 day, very malpositioned OP baby birth. I am still so passionate about birth as the first time, I saw one human becoming two.
Português:
Vi meu primeiro parto em 1987, quando minha irmã nasceu em nossa casa, apoiada por uma parteira tradicional, me apaixonei pelo parto, por aquelas mãos que recebem a vida.
Finalmente comecei no mundo do parto em 2013, me tornei doula através da DONA Internacional. Entrei no mundo da parteria tradicional pela sabedoria do Rebozo (das parteiras indígenas Maias). Trabalhei em alguns dos melhores hospitais da Nova Inglaterra como doula, treinei doulas por uma década e ministrei aulas através da Birthing Gently no nordeste dos Estados Unidos durante anos.
Em 2018 frequentei a Birthwise Midwifery School durante 3 anos, focada na obstetrícia tradicional e contemporânea. Fiz meu aprendizado em Massachusetts com Home Birth Matters, no total participei de mais de 300 partos durante minha formação.
Em 2021 voltei para casa onde tudo começou e fundei a Humanascer, uma escola e equipe de parto domiciliar, para ensinar e oferecer cuidados seguros, holísticos e integrativos, para todas as grávidas que têm o direito de escolher um parto domiciliar se quiserem. Em 2023, tive meu próprio trabalho de parto desafiador de 5 dias, com um bebê muito mal posicionado. Continuo tão apaixonada pelo partejar desde que, pela primeira vez vi um humano virando dois.
Lisa Boremski (German)
I was born on April 4th in 1987 in East Berlin (before the fall of the wall) and finished high school there in 2006. From 2008-2011, I studied nursing in Berlin. Shortly after, I met my future (and former) husband, whom I followed 6 months later to his beautiful home country Greece. There, I quickly became a mother and simultaneously improved my English skills with him and also slowly learned Greek. A few years later, I was suddenly a single mother of three girls in a foreign, beautiful, but quite corrupt and underdeveloped European country and had to start my life from scratch again.
It was then, having given birth alone to my latest daughter, the most empowering birth experience for me, that a door opened for me. A door I hoped to enter since I was in puberty. The midwife who was supposed to attend to my birth asked me if I wanted to work together with her doing home births. Of course, I said yes. And then it got even better: I was accepted by a Greek university to study midwifery. A dream come true. The universe showed me where to go with my life when I found myself facing the broken pieces of it. And I wholeheartedly, passionately, followed its guidance.
At this point in 2024 I have finished university. For some extra experience in midwifery, I will be working in a hospital in my home city in 2025. I have now attended 60 home births, including twins, breeches, post partum haemorrhages, and other complications. My dream is to get the C-section rate down in Greece from 70% to 15% at least, to give women back their power to birth, to give newborns a smooth start in their lives and choices. Choices to the women that they have been denied for far too long. To end the endless creation of new trauma. To turn back to a more natural, more human way of life.