![]() She also told me about spinning babies exercises to encourage the baby to turn head-down. My midwife encouraged me to attempt a vaginal breech birth, she gave me so many resources to educate me and she really planted the idea that it wasn’t something to freak out about. At my 34 weeks scan to check the baby’s size after my Gestational Diabetes diagnosis, we discovered that Noah was breech. ![]() “My midwife was really direct about the importance of preparing for breastfeeding, especially in regards to latching and troubleshooting breastfeeding issues. She asked her bulk-bill GP to refer her to the birth centre at her local hospital and she was lucky enough to get a place in the coveted programme. Rebeakh was living in Brisbane at the time and she did her research in regards to models of care. Within a few days of discussing it, we were assured that it was the right choice for us the fear went away and we were just so excited.” At the end of the day, Cameron and I had been together for three years and we’d had a lot of conversations about our future children. “I’m very academically driven and I also come from a conservative family so I’d already told myself that if I fell pregnant while studying, I wouldn’t go through with it. She was on the pill, hence the pregnancy was unplanned, and it prompted lots of discussions with her partner, Cameron, about whether having a baby was the right choice for them at the time. Rebekah was 21 when she fell pregnant with her son, Noah. In her second pregnancy she did a lot of birth preparation and when her waters broke at 36+5 and baby Astrid was presenting breech, she listened to her intuition, adjusted her birth preferences and worked closely with her supportive midwives to birth her baby without intervention. With guidance from a women’s health physio she made a full recovery. She suffered a distended bladder after the catheter was removed before the epidural wore off and she lost the ability to urinate, hence she was discharged under the care of the incontinence team who supported her to use an in-out catheter at home. She had a successful External Cephalic Rotation (ECV) in her first pregnancy and experienced a posterior labour with a vacuum-assisted birth. In today’s episode I interview Rebekah about her experience with two breech-presenting babies.
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