#198 | Midwife Jessy's Undisclosed Breech Home Birth

Down to Birth

Cynthia Overgard & Trisha Ludwig

Pregnancy, Childbirth, Postpartum, Midwives, Alternative Health, Home Birth, Society & Culture, Newborn, Documentary, Hypnobirthing, Kids & Family, Health & Fitness, Breastfeeding, Pregnant, Birth, Maternity, Motherhood

4.8 • 586 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Jessy is a Certified Professional Midwife (CPM) in the state of Utah where breech home birth is against state law. In her second pregnancy, she made three attempts using gentle version techniques to turn her baby, yet her baby turned back to breech every time. Weighing out the risks of breech vaginal home birth versus cesarean, she opted for home birth but kept her baby's breech position to herself and off-the-record. She only hinted to her midwife that her baby was being "s...

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0:00.0	We woke up from the nap.
0:04.4	I was starting to have more intense contractions, and I went to the bathroom, and there
0:08.3	was thick maconium coming out.
0:10.7	But with it being a breached birth, the butt is first.
0:15.1	The mconium coming out is literally just coming straight out.
0:18.7	It's not going up into the amniotic sac.
0:20.7	And her cord was under 12 inches long.
0:23.2	Like it was a super short cord with this ultimate insertion.
0:27.6	And all of it just kind of clicked in place.
0:29.9	I was like, oh my gosh.
0:31.2	I realized in that moment after we were looking at this placenta that that was the reason why she had to be born
0:39.8	breach.
0:42.0	I'm Cynthia Overgard, owner of hypniburthing of Connecticut, childbirth advocate, and postpartum
0:47.3	support specialist.
0:48.9	And I'm Tresha Ludwig, certified nurse midwife and international board certified lactation consultant.
0:55.1	And this is the down-to-birth podcast.
0:59.7	Childbirth is something we're made to do, but how do we have our safest and most satisfying experience in today's medical culture?
1:06.8	Let's dispel the myths and get down to birth.
1:16.3	Thank you. Let's dispel the myths and get down to birth. So I'm Jessica Collins.
1:18.5	I am a midwife in the state of Utah.
1:21.6	And this is my birth story about my breech baby.
1:26.2	We had our first little girl at a birthing center. Her birth was pretty
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