EBB 173 - Evidence on External Cephalic Version for Breech Positioned Babies
Evidence Based Birth®
Rebecca Dekker
4.6 • 978 Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s podcast, we wrap up our mini-series on breech babies by covering the latest research on external cephalic version (ECV) for breech positioned babies!
Topics covered in this podcast episode include updated information on:
How common it is to have a breech positioned baby
- How often people are offered and receive an ECV for a breech baby
- The effectiveness of ECV for lowering the risk of Cesarean
- Benefits and risks of the ECV procedure
- Pain management during an ECV
- Timing of an ECV and techniques that can increase effectiveness
- Effects of a prior Cesarean on the ECV success rate
- And more!
To read the transcript and see all of the research references, just go to https://evidencebasedbirth.com/breechversion
Resources:
- EBB Signature Article on Breech Version https://evidencebasedbirth.com/breechversion
- EBB Podcast 171: Breech Vaginal Birth
- EBB Podcast 172: Interview with Breech without Borders
- Visit Breech without Borders at https://breechwithoutborders.com
- Read our Signature Article all about Family-centered Cesareans: https://evidencebasedbirth.com/cesareancare
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone on today's podcast we're going to talk about the research evidence on external |
| 0:05.6 | sappalic version for breach positioned babies. |
| 0:09.2 | Welcome to the Evidence Based Birth Podcast. My name is Rebecca Decker and I'm a nurse with my PhD and the founder of Evidence Space Birth. |
| 0:21.0 | Join me each week as we work together to get evidence-based |
| 0:24.4 | information into the hands of families and professionals around the world. |
| 0:28.4 | As a reminder this information is not medical advice. |
| 0:32.6 | See EB Birth.com slash disclaimer for more details. |
| 0:39.0 | Hi everyone and welcome to today's episode |
| 0:42.3 | of the Evidence Space Birth Podcast. |
| 0:44.3 | Before we get started with our research information, |
| 0:47.4 | I have one quick announcement. |
| 0:49.6 | We recently just wrapped up our 20% off sale on the evidence-based birth professional |
| 0:54.4 | membership. However, we've decided to extend that sale for 24 more hours. So if |
| 0:59.3 | you missed the cutoff last night and you are listening to this on April 21st of 2021. |
| 1:07.1 | You can still get that discount on the evidence-based birth professional membership by going |
| 1:10.9 | to eB Birth.com |
| 1:13.0 | slash membership as long as you sign up by tomorrow morning |
| 1:16.9 | 8 a.m. on April 22. |
| 1:19.4 | If you have any questions, you can always feel free |
| 1:21.2 | to reach out to our team at info at evidence-based |
| 1:23.7 | birth.com and with that let's get to our topic for the day. So today we are |
| 1:28.6 | wrapping up a mini-series all about Breach Position Babies. |
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