Join Dr. Stu at the 2020 Kansas Breech and NRP Workshop in Rose Hill, KS with Breech Without Borders

The workshop includes

~ 2-day vaginal breech workshop sponsored by Breech Without Borders and taught by Stuart Fischbein, MD, David Hayes, MD, and Rixa Freeze, PhD
~ NRP certification with Karen Strange
~ 1-day breech refresher course
~ Neonatal transitional physiology with Karen Strange

More information and Tickets available here

Join Dr. Stu at the 2020 Kansas Breech and NRP Workshop in Rose Hill, KS with Breech Without Borders

The workshop includes

~ 2-day vaginal breech workshop sponsored by Breech Without Borders and taught by Stuart Fischbein, MD, David Hayes, MD, and Rixa Freeze, PhD
~ NRP certification with Karen Strange
~ 1-day breech refresher course
~ Neonatal transitional physiology with Karen Strange

More information and Tickets available here

Join Dr. Stu at the 2020 Kansas Breech and NRP Workshop in Rose Hill, KS with Breech Without Borders

The workshop includes

~ 2-day vaginal breech workshop sponsored by Breech Without Borders and taught by Stuart Fischbein, MD, David Hayes, MD, and Rixa Freeze, PhD
~ NRP certification with Karen Strange
~ 1-day breech refresher course
~ Neonatal transitional physiology with Karen Strange

Tickets available here

This 3-day breech conference explores 3 themes relating to breech birth: autonomy, biodiversity, and sustainability.
1. How can women be the key decision-makers in their births, even if--especially if--their babies are breech?
2. How can we support biodiversity in breech birth (diversity of birth positions, settings, & provider types), rather than a monoculture?
3. And finally, how can we make breech birth sustainable on an institutional and regulatory level?

We will discuss obstacles to providing breech and explore solutions in which vaginal breech is not just barely tolerated, but vigorously supported as a valid option.

This conference includes hands-on training with obstetric simulators, using the most up-to-date research and techniques in physiological breech birth.

Register Here

Dr. Fischbein will be share his talk on, “Collaborative breech models” at the Madison Breech Conference presented by Breech Without Boarders. This conference was designed to address barriers that hospital providers and administrators face in supporting vaginal breech birth.

This 3-day breech conference explores 3 themes relating to breech birth: autonomy, biodiversity, and sustainability.
1. How can women be the key decision-makers in their births, even if--especially if--their babies are breech?
2. How can we support biodiversity in breech birth (diversity of birth positions, settings, & provider types), rather than a monoculture?
3. And finally, how can we make breech birth sustainable on an institutional and regulatory level?

We will discuss obstacles to providing breech and explore solutions in which vaginal breech is not just barely tolerated, but vigorously supported as a valid option.

This conference includes hands-on training with obstetric simulators, using the most up-to-date research and techniques in physiological breech birth.

Register Here

Dr. Fischbein will be share his talk on, “Collaborative breech models” at the Madison Breech Conference presented by Breech Without Boarders. This conference was designed to address barriers that hospital providers and administrators face in supporting vaginal breech birth.

This 3-day breech conference explores 3 themes relating to breech birth: autonomy, biodiversity, and sustainability.
1. How can women be the key decision-makers in their births, even if--especially if--their babies are breech?
2. How can we support biodiversity in breech birth (diversity of birth positions, settings, & provider types), rather than a monoculture?
3. And finally, how can we make breech birth sustainable on an institutional and regulatory level?

We will discuss obstacles to providing breech and explore solutions in which vaginal breech is not just barely tolerated, but vigorously supported as a valid option.

This conference includes hands-on training with obstetric simulators, using the most up-to-date research and techniques in physiological breech birth.

Register Here

Dr. Fishbein will present, “Breech: The Other Way Babies Come Out” at this year’s New Jersey Symposium for Physiologic Birth. The event will host speakers on today’s important topics, including Cristen Pascucci of Birth Monopoly and Diana Snyder, an attorney, doula and patient rights advocate

Do not miss out on this great day designed to create cohesiveness and awareness among New Jersey Birth Workers. You will gain practical knowledge and tools to feel comfortable offering your patients more birth choices with less risk of lawsuits.

Join us for a day of intense education and training on the art of breech birth. Learn the history of breech and how and why it has become a lost art. There will be simulated enactments of both breech and twin situations.

• Apply true informed consent for the options to a woman with a term breech

• Distinguish the referrals and options available in their obstetric community.

• Identify the safe selection criteria for vaginal breech birth

• Demonstrate the maneuvers and positioning for optimal outcomes in vaginal breech birth

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The day starts with a lecture from Dr. Fischbein on evidence-based research for vaginal breech birth and a Q and A session. The lecture will be from approximately 9 am to noon and is open to anyone. Tickets for the lecture portion only are $150.

Full day participants will stay for a catered lunch with Dr. Fischbein and hands-on skills session in the afternoon. The hands-on session ends at 6 pm and midwives, OBGYN’s, midwifery and medical students are welcome. Full Day participant spots are limited to ensure one-on-one instruction! 7 CEU’s available for full-day participants and NARM contact hours. Tickets for the full-day workshop are $400.

This workshop will take place at the Atlanta Birth Center, 1 Baltimore Place, NW Atlanta, GA 30308.

This event is hosted by Mother Love Birth Services

Get tickets Here

Join us for a day of intense education and training on the art of breech birth. Learn the history of breech

and how and why it has become a lost art. There will be simulated enactments of both breech and twin

situations. CEUs are available.

• Apply true informed consent for the options to a woman with a term breech

• Distinguish the referrals and options available in their obstetric community.

• Identify the safe selection criteria for vaginal breech birth

• Demonstrate the maneuvers and positioning for optimal outcomes in vaginal breech birth

This event is hosted by Midvalley Birth Services for tickets or more information, please contact Liz @ 541-223-4454

The Portuguese Association for Women´s Rights in Pregnancy and Birth´s next annual conference “Nascer em Amor” (Born with Love) will take place in May 2018, on the occasion of the International Week for Respecting Childbirth (IWRC) under the theme, ‘Less interference, more care‘. The focus of the conference will be on ‘Exceptional births‘: those that by nature are the exception in relation to the majority of births – twin births, vaginal birth after caesarean, breech births and births that take place beyond 42 weeks (prolonged pregnancy).

With regards to these births – which we hope can be exceptional not only because of their statistical rarity – we will bring together families and birth professionals for a day of information, debate and sharing about the options available to both women and professionals. These four situations in focus usually set the stage for high rates of intervention (induction, instrumented delivery, caesarean), that bring with it its own set of risks and consequences for both mothers and babies.

It is our wish to shed light on the range of options, in accordance with best practice and the latest evidence, and also through women´s stories, so that more women can make truly informed decisions, and caesareans and other interventions are reserved for situations where the need is real or by maternal request. We hope to make a contribution to the improvement of maternal health care in Portugal, in accordance with the World Health Organization, the United Nations CEDAW Committee and the Portuguese Government´s recommendations.

Dr. Fischbein will be demonstrating techniques as well as discussing informed consent

The Portuguese Association for Women´s Rights in Pregnancy and Birth´s next annual conference “Nascer em Amor” (Born with Love) will take place in May 2018, on the occasion of the International Week for Respecting Childbirth (IWRC) under the theme, ‘Less interference, more care‘. The focus of the conference will be on ‘Exceptional births‘: those that by nature are the exception in relation to the majority of births – twin births, vaginal birth after caesarean, breech births and births that take place beyond 42 weeks (prolonged pregnancy).

With regards to these births – which we hope can be exceptional not only because of their statistical rarity – we will bring together families and birth professionals for a day of information, debate and sharing about the options available to both women and professionals. These four situations in focus usually set the stage for high rates of intervention (induction, instrumented delivery, caesarean), that bring with it its own set of risks and consequences for both mothers and babies.

It is our wish to shed light on the range of options, in accordance with best practice and the latest evidence, and also through women´s stories, so that more women can make truly informed decisions, and caesareans and other interventions are reserved for situations where the need is real or by maternal request. We hope to make a contribution to the improvement of maternal health care in Portugal, in accordance with the World Health Organization, the United Nations CEDAW Committee and the Portuguese Government´s recommendations.

Dr. Fischbein will be demonstrating techniques as well as discussing informed consent

The Portuguese Association for Women´s Rights in Pregnancy and Birth´s next annual conference “Nascer em Amor” (Born with Love) will take place in May 2018, on the occasion of the International Week for Respecting Childbirth (IWRC) under the theme, ‘Less interference, more care‘. The focus of the conference will be on ‘Exceptional births‘: those that by nature are the exception in relation to the majority of births – twin births, vaginal birth after caesarean, breech births and births that take place beyond 42 weeks (prolonged pregnancy).

With regards to these births – which we hope can be exceptional not only because of their statistical rarity – we will bring together families and birth professionals for a day of information, debate and sharing about the options available to both women and professionals. These four situations in focus usually set the stage for high rates of intervention (induction, instrumented delivery, caesarean), that bring with it its own set of risks and consequences for both mothers and babies.

It is our wish to shed light on the range of options, in accordance with best practice and the latest evidence, and also through women´s stories, so that more women can make truly informed decisions, and caesareans and other interventions are reserved for situations where the need is real or by maternal request. We hope to make a contribution to the improvement of maternal health care in Portugal, in accordance with the World Health Organization, the United Nations CEDAW Committee and the Portuguese Government´s recommendations.

Dr. Fischbein will be demonstrating techniques as well as discussing informed consent

The Portuguese Association for Women´s Rights in Pregnancy and Birth´s next annual conference “Nascer em Amor” (Born with Love) will take place in May 2018, on the occasion of the International Week for Respecting Childbirth (IWRC) under the theme, ‘Less interference, more care‘. The focus of the conference will be on ‘Exceptional births‘: those that by nature are the exception in relation to the majority of births – twin births, vaginal birth after caesarean, breech births and births that take place beyond 42 weeks (prolonged pregnancy).

With regards to these births – which we hope can be exceptional not only because of their statistical rarity – we will bring together families and birth professionals for a day of information, debate and sharing about the options available to both women and professionals. These four situations in focus usually set the stage for high rates of intervention (induction, instrumented delivery, caesarean), that bring with it its own set of risks and consequences for both mothers and babies.

It is our wish to shed light on the range of options, in accordance with best practice and the latest evidence, and also through women´s stories, so that more women can make truly informed decisions, and caesareans and other interventions are reserved for situations where the need is real or by maternal request. We hope to make a contribution to the improvement of maternal health care in Portugal, in accordance with the World Health Organization, the United Nations CEDAW Committee and the Portuguese Government´s recommendations.

Dr. Fischbein will be demonstrating techniques as well as discussing informed consent

Join director/producer Jessicca Moore, Dr. Stuart Fischbein, as well as other local birth professionals, for a screening of the documentary Why Not Home? followed by a panel discussion.

We will watch the documentary in the intimate space at The Good Life Academy, a holistic wellness center in beautiful SoCal. After the film, birth experts will answer questions in a panel discussion. Light refreshments will be served.

Jessicca Moore is a family nurse practitioner and filmmaker in Petaluma, CA. A graduate of the UCLA School of Nursing, she has always been drawn to people and their stories and is passionate about empowering women and families through information sharing. She became interested in filmmaking when the intersection of her personal and professional worlds gave her a story she had to tell.Her path to motherhood started with a high tech conception through IVF and culminated in a low tech birth at home. She tells the previously untold story of hospital birth providers who chose to give birth at home in her first film, "Why not Home?" 


Tickets are $15

Dr. Stu Fischbein will be this coming February (2018) in Kona, Hawaii where he will teach on breech birth presentations. Dr. Stu is world renowned for his advocacy on normalizing breech birth and home birth. As an OBGYN he has set himself apart from his colleagues and become a trusted voice in championing natural birth in its varied forms. 

This event is open to students, midwives, nurses or doctors in the birth field. Space will be limited so register early! CEUs will be available. 

For more information contact: amy@gomidwife.com
To register go to:  http://gomidwife.com/reteach-the-breech/

Reteach the Breech will be  in Kona, Hawaii. Lessons will focus on breech birth presentations. where he will teach on breech birth presentations. Dr. Stu is world renowned for his advocacy on normalizing breech birth and home birth. As an OBGYN he has set himself apart from his colleagues and become a trusted voice in championing natural birth in its varied forms. 

This event is open to students, midwives, nurses or doctors in the birth field. Space will be limited so register early! CEUs will be available. 

For more information contact: amy@gomidwife.com
To register go to:  http://gomidwife.com/reteach-the-breech/

Glendale Adventist ignores national guidelines, violates patient autonomy, bans natural birth for breech babies.

Last week, Glendale Adventist Medical Center created a policy outright banning vaginal breech birth. Although many hospitals have de facto bans, meaning there aren't providers who offer this service, there isn't any other hospitals that we are aware of that have this outright ban.

GAMC is fortunate to have one of the most skilled breech practitioners in the country. Dr. Wu is an honored physician who has assisted women with vaginal breech birth for more than 40 years. And while this policy appears to affect the entire obstetric department, the reality is, it’s directed at this one specific provider, making it seem punitive and unnecessary.

We are concerned that this change seems to be motivated by political and perceived financial concerns instead of what is in the best interest of mothers and babies.

This is a policy that forces women into cesarean sections without respect to patient autonomy in decision-making and their legal right to informed consent and refusal.

We believe there is much evidence to support VBB that was not considered by those involved in this decision. Basing a policy on flawed information and perceived but not actual liability is an erroneous precedent.

We will rally to bring awareness to this unethical policy and we hope you will join us.

Learn how you can help and RSVP Here

Dr. Stu along with VBAC FACT Jen Kamel join local mothers discussing their VBAC experiences.

Panel discussion will be moderated by Virginia Bobro. Q&A as well as materials available for deeper discussion.

The event begins at 6pm sharp, so please arrive early to find parking and mingle a little before the start!

Join Executive Producer Dr. Elliot Berlin and special guests Dr. Stuart Fischbein and Midwife/Spinning Babies founder Gaily Tully for a live virtual screening of 'Heads Up: The Disappearing Art of Vaginal Breech Delivery' on Sunday, March 6th, 2016 at 4:30PM PST (6:30PM Central, 7:30PM Eastern).

Tickets are $12.00 and can be purchased here: www.headsupvirtualscreening.eventbrite.com

After watching the film in reel time with people all over the globe, there will be a live chat discussion with our esteemed guests Dr. Stuart Fischbein and Gaily Tully. Come with questions!

Space is limited. Get your tix today!

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ABOUT THE FILM
Running time: 34 minutes. From executive producer Dr. Elliot Berlin, DC: A breech baby is born nearly every four minutes in the United States. Until the year 2000, a woman could opt to birth her breech baby vaginally or via surgery. Then, in 2001, a study came out that took away one of those options. The study was later found to be faulty, but the damage was already done--vaginal breech birth was almost completely eliminated from medical school training and from delivery rooms. ‘Heads Up’ features several women confronted with the disappearance of this option for their breech babies. Among others, actress Morena Baccarin and holistic living personality Kimberly Van Der Beek struggle to find providers who will attend them in a vaginal breech birth--all under the pressure of their imminent due dates. Through their personal accounts and the perspectives of medical professionals, Heads Up explores this widely misunderstood subject and the need to restore this lost art and lost option.

ABOUT THE GUESTS

DR. ELLIOT BERLIN
Dr. Elliot Berlin is an award winning prenatal chiropractor, childbirth educator and labor doula. His Informed Pregnancy® Project aims to utilize multiple forms of media to compile and deliver unbiased information about pregnancy and childbirth to empower new and expectant parents to make informed choices regarding their pregnancy and parenting journey.

DR. STUART JAMES FISCHBEIN, MD
Stuart James Fischbein, MD was Board Certified in 1989 and became a Fellow of the American College of Obstetrics & Gynecology in 1990. He has been a practicing obstetrician in Southern California since completing his residency. While well trained at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in the standard medical model of obstetrics he had the respect and vision to support the midwifery model of care and served as a backup consultant to many home and birthing center midwives for 25 years. In 1996 he founded The Woman’s Place for Health, Inc., a collaborative practice of Certified Nurse Midwives and Obstetricians in Camarillo, California.

In 2004, Dr. Fischbein co-authored, “Fearless Pregnancy, Wisdom & Reassurance from a Doctor, a Midwife and a Mom”www.fearlesspregnancy.net . For his efforts he has been awarded the Doulas Association of Southern California (DASC) Physician of the year award three times and was the very first recipient of DASC’s lifetime achievement award in support of pregnant women. He has spoken internationally on breech and vaginal birth after cesarean section and has appeared in many documentaries, including: “More Business of Being Born”, “Happy Healthy Child”, “Reducing Infant Mortality”, “Heads Up: The Disappearing Art of Vaginal Breech Delivery” and multiple YouTube videos discussing birth choices and respect for patient autonomy and decision making.

Dr. Fischbein now works directly with home birthing midwives at www.birthinginstincts.com and offers hope for those women who prefer and respect a natural birthing environment and cannot find supportive practitioners for VBAC, twin and breech deliveries. He recently published his retrospective review,  “Home Birth with an Obstetrician, A Series of 135 Births”  in the Obstetric & Gynecology International Journal.

MIDWIFE GAIL TULLY
Gail Tully is certified professional midwife, has been active in the Minneapolis birth scene since 1981 with grass roots birth activism and hospital doula programs, midwifery education. Her homebirth practice is now limited to consultation during special births.
Online since 2002, SpinningBabies.com has become a world presence offering reassurance about fetal positioning and natural birth. Gail seeks to understand the dynamic interplay of mother and baby through the process of birth, including her development of Belly Mapping as published in booklet form, featured in Ruth Ancheta and Penny Simkin’s Labor Progress Handbook, and on www.SpinningBabies.com
Resolving Shoulder Dystocia and Breech Basics are midwifery continuing education courses Gail had developed and provides in addition to Spinning Babies Workshop.
Gail speaks around the world at her own and other’s birth conferences and events, including Spinning Babies Workshops, Midwifery Today, SIA Parto, and the Spinning Babies World Confluence.