A Breech Homebirth, with Jessica Winquist

We continue with our “Birth Stories” for the summer series! Today’s story comes from Jessica Winquist, who was determined to have a vaginal birth, even though her daughter was breech. As it turns out, pregnancy ended up being the most stressful part of her experience. Go check out her breech homebirth story.

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What we talked about:

Wanting a homebirth, and then finding out baby was breech!
Doing all the things to encourage baby to flip
Exploring the options and trying to bring breech back
Assembling quite the extended pregnancy and birth team
Baking cookies and just hanging out
And then the tub was… meh.
Sometimes you just need to lunge
Mad midwifery skills… while holding a cup of coffee
Sometimes babies need a minute

Resources mentioned by Jessica, and more!:

Milkmamabakeshop.com – Jessica’s lactation cookies for breastfeeding mamas!
Emily Landry (emilylandrydoula.com) – doula extraordinaire
SpinningBabies.com (which Jessica used a bunch, but forgot to mention during the show)
Stephanie Propper (propperacupuncture.com) – Jessica’s acupuncturist, with the best name ever
Shary Wagreich (eastmidtownchiro.com) – Jessica’s chiropractor
Janet Markovits (maternalmassageandmore.com & thepregnantnewyorker.com) – massage therapist and runs The Pregnant New Yorker to inform women of services available in NYC like physical therapy and eco cleaning companies, etc.Choices in Childbirth
ChoicesInChildbirth.org – education and advocacy non-profit that works to improve the birth choices available to women and to educate women on those choices
Dr. Elliott Berlin (informedpregnancy.com/heads-up) – a chiropractor in Los Angeles, CA, created the documentary “Heads Up” to inform people about breech birth