Description
Gail Tully, CPM
Illustrated with colored photos and diagrams, this 20-page guide describes both normal and stuck breeches and discusses what to do for birth in the all-fours position. Levels of the pelvis are color-coordinated with solutions for that level (inlet, mid, outlet). This guide is intended for the provider: the well-trained doctor or midwife. Only the most common issues of rotation and descent—or lack of rotation and descent—are described.
Topics covered include:
- Prenatal breech timeline
- Identifying breech fetal position
- Maternal exercises to make room in the uterus to allow a baby to turn head-down
- When and how to be hands-on or hands-off
- Comparing normal and stuck breech birth
- Pelvic level insights
- Lateral flexion of baby’s spine
- Solutions for obstructed breech at inlet, midpelvis and outlet
- How arms get stuck, freeing the arms, unusual arm variations
- Head on the brim and freeing the head
- Author: Gail Tully
- Number of Pages: 24
- Format and Binding: Paper—spiral bound
- Book Dimensions: 8 ½ inches x 5 ½ inches
- Publisher: Maternity House Publishing
- Publication Date: 2016