Vaginal Breech Births a Thing Again
Healthline
Betty-Anne Daviss travels the world training healthcare providers in vaginal breech birth, which often isn’t attempted when a baby is breech, or feetfirst.
Midwives are growing in popularity but still largely misunderstood. This three-part series aims to help you answer the question: What’s a midwife and is one right for me?
In her early 20s, Betty-Anne Daviss was a naturopath hitchhiking across Central America. But in 1976, the trajectory of her career changed.
A major earthquake leveled many of the homes in the Guatemalan village she was living in at the time, which caused several pregnant women to go into labor early.
“I had to learn how to pack a horse and go out to the villages and find out what was going on,” she tells Healthline. “Every time I arrived, people would run up to me and ask, ‘Are you a midwife?’ and I’d say no, but I can help.”
Thus, the earliest of her midwifery training began.
Source: This Midwife Has Delivered Over 150 Breech Babies Without a C-Section