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My breech challenge.

Publication: Special Delivery
Publication Date: 22-DEC-06
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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My uncle was born breech. My grandmother has little recollection of the experience. "In them days," as she would say, "the doctors knocked you out with drugs." She does recall "it was quite an ordeal," and says she almost died. Little did I know that 57 years later I would be faced with the I...

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...amazing challenge of my own breech birth. had been prepared for a homebirth. Everything was in place, and it was sure to be a beautiful experience. My first birth was in the hospital with the care of my wonderful midwife, Nancy. It was a fast, natural birth with no undesired interventions. I was confident in my birthing body and felt sure that my future children could be born at home with no foreseeable complications.

However, at 38 weeks of my 2nd pregnancy, when Nancy examined me she took an unusually long time palpating my belly and then asked where I felt the baby kicking. When I told her I felt it in the middle,...

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