New Year's Breech Birth!

So maybe this year we will turn things around politically and environmentally since the first baby born at Bumi Sehat this year was born feet first!

Yes it is true - I witnessed my first breech birth. A double footling breech born in the caul ( in the membranes). It was a third time mom who came in complete and pushing. She had had two prior babies breech and so she was the perfect candidate to have a breech birth. Not to mention there was no time to transfer to the hospital - this baby was coming and coming fast!

I wasn't on call that day, I was just hanging out in one of the birth rooms with an acupuncturist doing moxa on a sweet little baby that needed a little more chi to wake up and nurse, when Robin swept by announcing an imminent breech. I carefully left the little babe in the arms of Jen, the gentlest acupuncturist i have ever worked with, and swiftly slid into the birth room, camera in hand. The feet were already starting to come but looked so strange as they were, yes, as i had mentioned, in the membrane. The body came soon after and was posterior so Robin gently encouraged the baby to rotate which it did. The membrane broke and the baby was almost completely born. Everyone was calm and excited and as I snapped photos I saw the nape of the neck appear and the head slide out so so smoothly. Oh a sigh of relief and joy spread throughout the room as the mom held her baby tightly to her chest. And that was it. Seamless. 15 minutes at the birth center and new life had slid into the world without a glitch. And...no tear!!

So a few of us reflected on the toast we had made hours before at New Year's. It was a hope that this year things would turn around politically. So there you go- starting out on a good foot- hee hee

Chanti