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A planned c-section for footling breech (with video)

A planned c-section for an awkward breech with one foot up and one foot down, and a family history of breech (with a video):

“I don’t feel guilty about doing it, though. There were no doctors or midwives on the island who would deliver a breech baby. Giving her position, I wasn’t going to risk doing it by myself. In the head, we weighed our options and felt fairly in control of the whole process. Still, I feel some disappointment in missing out of the experience that I was envisioning, though I hope with our next baby we can have a home birth after cesarean.”

http://birthwithoutfearblog.com/2013/11/14/a-cesarean-for-breech-birth-with-video/

Filed Under: Birth Stories Tagged With: diagnosed, doctor, Elective c-section, footling, hospital, planned, video

Triplet home water birth – 2nd baby footling breech

“My double footling baby B from my triplet home birth in 2006.”

“Max is the one on the right with the little purple foot. His one foot was fairly bruised from funky positioning for a few days.”

Triplet Home Birth…Photo of 2nd Baby Born in Water Footling Breech

Filed Under: Birth Stories Tagged With: footling, home, multiple, photos, planned, triplets, water

Anton’s surprise footling breech home birth

A surprise footling breech birth at home, handled calmly and gently by an independent midwife.

” A few more pushes and a foot appeared and my midwife realised that not only was the baby breech, it was coming feet first. I had to get out of the pool, as the midwife needed to have full visibility of what was going on. I, understandably, could not move, and let that be known that nothing in this world would make me move. My midwife and my husband literally had to pull me out of the pool as I needed to get out.

I got onto dry land and leaned against our sofa. One foot was born first and then the other. With another contraction, he was up to his navel. His shoulder appeared then the other and his chin. Then two more contractions and his head was born. My midwife announced that it was a boy at one point, which I didn’t mind as she was telling me the progress of the baby being born. As Anton was positioned perfectly, he was born quite easily. My midwife did little to intervene in the birth other than support his body when his head was being born so it wouldn’t be flexed, as that would have possibly caused some damage.”

http://www.homebirth.org.uk/oddny.htm

Filed Under: Birth Stories Tagged With: footling, home, midwife, undiagnosed, unplanned, vaginal, water

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