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Birthing Instincts

#392 Twin Home Birth Outcomes Published…Finally, with Rixa Freeze, PhD

Birthing Instincts

Dr. Stuart Fischbein + Midwife Blyss Young

Parenting, Kids & Family, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.5 • 631 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2024

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

Today, Dr. Stu welcomes Dr. Rixa Freeze to discuss their paper “Twin Home Birth Outcomes” more deeply and all the topics related to this theme. You will learn more about the connection between twin pregnancies and breech birth and why it is common for one or both babies to be in a breech position, as well as the mode of delivery. Dr. Rixa Freeze has a PhD in American Studies from the University of Iowa. Her doctoral studies focused on the history of healthcare and medicine with a specialization in pregnancy, childbirth, and maternity care.


Connect with Dr. Rixa Freeze


In this episode of the Birthing Instincts Podcast:

  • Dr. Rixa Freeze's background;
  • Dr. Stu and Dr. Rixa discuss their paper “Twin Home Birth Outcomes”;
  • Why women in North America choose unassisted home birth;
  • Why it's important to know what does twin home birth look like;
  • Correlation between twin pregnancies and breech birth;
  • Breech presentation: vaginal birth vs. c-section;
  • Understanding c-section births for future pregnancies;
  • Dr. Rixa Freeze's organization Breech Without Borders.


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0:00.0

Welcome to the Burling Instincts Podcast.

0:05.0

I'm Dr. Stewart Fishbein, community-based practicing obstetrician and longtime advocate for birth choices.

0:10.0

And I'm Bliss Young, a licensed midwife.

0:13.0

Join us in our conversational style podcast where we talk about everything birth.

0:17.0

Sometimes we laugh, sometimes we cry, but we're happy that you're here, so here we go. Good morning. Good afternoon, good evening, and good middle of the night,

0:28.8

fellow travelers. It's a slightly froggy and recovering from a nice Thanksgiving gift

0:35.3

with my family, Minnesota, a bit of a cold. And I'm here solo today.

0:40.2

Bliss is doing one of the things that she does best, and that is assisting a woman and having a

0:46.2

baby. So she won't be here today, but I have a very exciting guest today. And that is my friend,

0:52.3

colleague, and co-author, Rick Safreeze.

0:55.2

Ricks and I are, well, we'll get to it, but we are paper, finally, on twins and twin home birth,

1:02.2

will have come out by the time this podcast is released on December 18th.

1:08.4

It should come out on December 11th at 2 p.m. Eastern time and you'll probably see a lot of

1:13.5

or have seen a lot of social media blurbs about that. We finally got it published and we're going to

1:20.7

discuss that today so we'll get to that in a little bit and I'm so excited. Finally, finally, finally,

1:26.5

finally, finally, finally, finally, finally.

1:33.7

As Rixie likes to say, it is the largest home birth paper on twins that's ever been published,

1:36.2

especially by a single practitioner, obviously.

1:39.0

So we'll get into detail.

1:46.4

We've talked about it in the past, but many times we're not going to get into it with Rixa. And I can't believe it would podcast like 390 something, I think, and we've never had Ricksa on the podcast.

1:52.5

Not that I can remember anyway. So it'll be great. It'll be great. Before I do that, I wanted to

1:57.0

talk a little bit about Thanksgiving. I hope you guys all had a great Thanksgiving.

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