Starting a breech service
This is a gathering space for healthcare providers interested in starting a breech service. Free of charge and open to anyone currently offering VBB in a hospital setting or interested in learning how!
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Meeting 1 (Jan 8 2025): Introductions, Goals, & the Frankfurt Protocols
Meeting 2 (Feb 12, 2025): Whitney Pinger, CNM and the GW Vaginal Breech Initiative
Meeting 3 (Mar 12, 2025): Starting a breech service in Alberta, Canada and interning in Frankfurt (Holly, Heather, & Lisa)
Meeting 4 (Apr 9, 2025): Sara Morris: Planning a breech service in Perth, Australia
Meeting 5 (May 14, 2025): Starting a breech service in Belgium with Firas Cha'ban
Meeting 6 (June 11, 2025): Reading Tower Health in Reading, PA, USA
Meeting 7 (July 9, 2025): Starting a breech service in Berlin, Germany with Miguel de Sousa Mendes, MD
Meeting 8 (September 10, 2025): Supporting breech & twins in Pescara, Italy
Meeting 9 (October 8, 2025): Starting a breech service in Hungary
Meeting 10 (November 12, 2025): Implementation of upright breech in Denmark with Kamilla Nielsen
Meeting 11 (Dec 10, 2025): What do parents want?
Meeting 12 (Jan 14, 2026): Supporting VBB in a critical access hospital in WI with Dr. Denny Hartung
Meeting 13 (Feb 12, 2026): Starting a ECV clinic with Sara Morris, RM PhD
Please share relevant documents with BWB!
Informed consent documents
Exclusion & inclusion criteria
Labor protocols & guidelines
Obstetric & midwifery society breech guidelines from around the world
Westmead Australia breech documents
St. George's NHS Trust Breech Clinic Results
Guidelines for women who decline recommended care
Skills acquisition
Physiological breech birth: a scoping review of facilitators and barriers to practice uptake (Dissertation)