04/30/2025
Breech Birth Story
At 38 weeks, this couple found out their baby was breech.
They had been planning a home birth with another midwife, but because breech birth wasn’t within her comfort zone — especially for a first-time mom — they were referred to me.
Just six days after our consultation, labor began.
She arrived at 6cm, working hard through intense back pain — the kind I usually only see with posterior babies. It surprised me. Breech babies don’t usually cause back labor.
Trusting my instincts but wanting to double-check, I reached out to praying she’d see my message. She did. Her advice?
“As long as the baby is doing well continue to support her as you would if the baby were cephalic.”
I created a movement circuit to help baby drop lower and hopefully shift the pain out of her back.
Her husband was her rock — there for every contraction, every position change, every hard moment.
Still, no matter what we did, the pain stuck. And despite her strength, exhaustion started to set in at 9cm — with baby still at negative station in the pelvis.
She wasn’t sure she could keep going.
We knew she could. We prayed with her and over her and her baby. We asked for God’s guidance.
We asked her to try one more intense circuit.
She said yes.
We had her literally upside down, shaking her pelvis through contractions — raw, primal, powerful work.
After that circuit, she got on the birth stool — and everything shifted.
Her water broke.
The baby began to descend.
I saw that beautiful little breech bottom emerging, and I quickly ran through every maneuver in my mind, preparing for anything — but also hearing God’s voice quietly reassure me:
“I’ve got this. She’s got this.”
She pushed her baby all the way out to the head on the birth stool.
Then moved to hands and knees, where with a simple chest press, her baby was born — powerfully, beautifully, safely.
She scooped him up and held him close, right there, right where he was meant to be. (Continued in comments).
