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Whitney Pinger CNM MSN FACNM has been training and serving as a midwife for almost 50 years. For most of them, she has been a champion of physiologic, uninterrupted birth in academic medical centres. Her practice, WISDOM Midwifery, is rooted in The Midwifery Pearls, the evidence-based strategies that optimize physiologic birth and The Pinger Patterns of Labor, her innovative labour management paradigm that promotes communication and collaboration. Vaginal breech birth has always been a part of her clinical practice, and while an Associate Clinical Professor at the George Washington University she was a part of a team that initiated the GW Breech Initiative, a collaborative practice model to provide and teach vaginal breech birth. In this collaborative model of care, midwives and doctors are seen as equal partners with different skill sets and are willing partners to support the physiologic breech process. In addition to being a Training Specialist, Whitney is Breech Without Border’s Collaborative Practice Director and is deeply committed to the education of the next generation of doctors, midwives, and nurses.
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Rixa Freeze has a PhD in American Studies from the University of Iowa. Her doctoral studies focused on the history of healthcare and medicine with specialization in pregnancy, childbirth, and maternity care. Her dissertation examined why women in North America choose unassisted home births. She worked as a visiting assistant professor for 9 years at Wabash College before founding Breech Without Borders in 2018. BWB is a 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to breech training, education, and advocacy.
https://www.breechwithoutborders.org
She has published about why women choose home birth (JMWH 2009) and attitudes towards home birth in the US (Exp Rev ObGyn 2010). In 2018, she co-authored a study of breech and cephalic home births (BMC Preg Child). The following year, she published an article about outcomes of breech at home, birth centres, and hospitals (Midwifery Today). She co-authored a chapter “Freebirth in the United States” in the 2020 book Birthing Outside the System: The Canary in the Coal Mine. Her analysis of 100 sets of twin home births, co-authored with Stuart Fischbein, was published in December 2024 with PLOS ONE. She is the lead author of the textbook A Guide to Physiological Breech Birth, now in its 2nd edition.
Current research projects include a video analysis of 207 physiological breech births, a qualitative analysis of the obstacles American physicians face in supporting vaginal breech birth, a review of the effectiveness of an international vaginal breech training program, and outcomes of an initiative to increase the vaginal twin birth rate in 2 Italian hospitals. She also oversees bachelor and doctoral research projects relating to breech birth.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30305050/
https://obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ijgo.12033
https://www.authorea.com/doi/full/10.22541/au.175044419.92924866/v1
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16580289/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16099580/
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Blyss Young, LM, CPM is a midwife, teacher and mentor devoted to women’s wisdom across the thresholds of life. Her work is shaped by decades in midwifery, deep clinical experience, and profound personal loss. With years of experience supporting physiological birth, mentoring birthworkers, and walking with women through grief and transformation, Blyss brings depth, presence, and a deep rooted passion for sovereignty to her work.
Blyss is the founder of The Bridge Midwives, co-host of the Birthing Instincts podcast, and host of At Her Feet, where she centers conversation, lived experience, and traditional wisdom in modern maternity care. She currently serves her community in Ashland, Oregon as a traditional midwife.
https://www.birthingblyss.com/home
https://www.birthinginstincts.com/blyss-young
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Andrew Bisits worked in full time public hospital obstetrics from 1984-2025. Andrew was the medical co-director of maternity services at the Royal Hospital for Women in Randwick, Sydney, a tertiary maternity service where 4100 babies are born each year. He did his training in Newcastle, NSW, Australia and worked there for 23 years. During his time, he developed a strong interest in models of maternity care that supported normal birth, hence the focus on midwifery teams, primary midwifery, midwifery group practices and home birth. He has had a clinical, research and didactic interest in any area of obstetrics which minimises interventions and maximises the possibility of a safe and normal birth.
Since the planning of the term breech trial(1996) he has looked at various ways of maintaining the capacity to offer vaginal breech birth where appropriate. A large part of this has involved looking at ways to increase the possibility of physiological breech birth. Andrew has research interests in statistics particularly the area of formal causal inference using observational data. Since resigning from his role at the Royal Hospital for Women, he has continued in teaching and research initiatives.
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Nicole Morales is a mother, mentor, author, breech advocate, Spinning Babies® Approved Trainer, storyteller, and homebirth midwife living in San Diego, California USA. In midwifery teaching, Nicole actively engages in caretaking midwifery by shifting its compass towards deeper understandings of physiological birth practices while highlighting the midwives and families inner processes of decision making.
Nicole is a part of a collaborative called ReStory Birthwork and is a co-author of The Breech Release: Opening Pathways for Midwifery and Prenatal Bodywork, Restorative Midwifery: Every Bead of Our Necklace, Resolving Shoulder Dystocia Guide, and Breech Basics Quick Guide, 2nd Edition. She combines bodywork and breechwork in helping families navigate breech at the end of pregnancy and believes that breech babies and breech birth turns us around allowing us to learn and see differently about all births.
Nicole also is passionate about utilising storytelling and fairytales for deeper understandings through her work in Restorative Midwifery book series she is writing and her workshop called Birth from The Inside Out. You can find out more about Nicole at artofopening.com and ReStoryBirthwork.com.
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Chloe shares her plan to have a wild pregnancy and freebirth with the option to contact her NHS midwife if needed. Chloe opted out of ultrasounds and blood tests during her pregnancy and after labouring at home called the NHS midwives to get some reassurance. After transferring and labouring at hospital, Chloe intuitively knew that her baby needed a caesarean. Chloe had a complex and rare situation occur during her caesarean which required an inverted T- incision (special scar). Chloe also shares her experience having postnatal hypertension. To help support getting the Breech Birth Podcast stories out to women and their families across the world please make a small donation through Buy Me a Coffee https://buymeacoffee.com/breechbirthp...
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Ali shares her experience transferring from a private obstetrician to another who supports vaginal breech birth. Ali had two ECV's one at 37wks with no medications and the other at 40wks with an epidural, both unsuccessful. Ali had to birth her baby in theatre due to baby being breech and was told to lie on her back for the birth of baby's head. Ali shares her thoughts around the increasing caesarean rates and limited information shared on the risks associated with caesareans. To help support getting the Breech Birth Podcast stories out to women and their families across the world please make a small donation through Buy Me a Coffee https://buymeacoffee.com/breechbirthp...
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Lexi shares her experience planning a home birth and being supported to continue at home when her baby was discovered to be breech. Lexi declined an ECV but tried other methods to turn baby. Lexi shares how she focused attention on fitness throughout her pregnancy and a positive mindset which benefitted her in labour. To help support getting the Breech Birth Podcast stories out to women and their families across the world please make a small donation through Buy Me a Coffee https://buymeacoffee.com/breechbirthp...
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Gianna shares her journey receiving care with MGP but later changing to the only private obstetrician available that supports vaginal breech birth. Gianna discusses the rejection of her birth preferences in order to receive care for a vaginal breech birth and later realises the offer was only for a breech extraction. Gianna was in a teaching hospital and touches on what this looked like during her labour, birth and after care. To help support getting the Breech Birth Podcast stories out to women and their families across the world please make a small donation through Buy Me a Coffee https://buymeacoffee.com/breechbirthp...
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Rose shares her experience with continuity of midwifery care and planning a breech home birth with a skilled midwife. Rose discusses her meeting with a supportive obstetrician for hospital birth but after consideration decided home was safest for her. Rose had her baby at 40wks and shares that her second and third babies were also breech but turned in third trimester after chiropractic care. Rose is a private midwife and now offers a breech release clinic called Serene Women's services in Adelaide Australia. To help support getting the Breech Birth Podcast stories out to women and their families across the world please make a small donation through Buy Me a Coffee https://buymeacoffee.com/breechbirthp...
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Barbara shares her experience of breaking waters at 39wks and discovering baby was breech. Barbara transferred to a different hospital in hope for vaginal birth but due to lack of skilled practitioners, Barbara chose an elective caesarean. Barbara mentions that after seeing the Born at Home film she wanted a home birth for her second baby. At 39.4wks Barbara broke her waters before labour again and had a surprise breech vaginal birth at home with her midwives. Barbara shares that the paternal grandmother also had two breech babies. To help support getting the Breech Birth Podcast stories out to women and their families across the world please make a small donation through Buy Me a Coffee https://buymeacoffee.com/breechbirthp...
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Jessica shares her story on a planned publicly funded homebirth with antenatal transfer for hospital birth due to having a breech baby. Jess had a failed ECV and her baby had a succenturiate placenta. Jess had morphine and sterile water injections in labour for pain relief as well as support from her partner and continuity midwife. To help support getting the Breech Birth Podcast stories out to women and their families across the world please make a small donation through Buy Me a Coffee https://buymeacoffee.com/breechbirthp...
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Maddison is a registered midwife and chose publicly funded homebirth care. After discovering baby was breech, Maddison was supported by both her midwife and an obstetrician in a hospital setting and had a successful vaginal birth. Maddison shares briefly her experience with PCOS and the journey her baby had with his tongue tie management. Maddison's baby also had a rare placenta called a furcate placenta. To help support getting the Breech Birth Podcast stories out to women and their families across the world please make a small donation through Buy Me a Coffee https://buymeacoffee.com/breechbirthp...
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Caitlin shares her journey having had two breech babies and one cephalic. Her first was born via elective caesarean at 39wks due to being breech and having a low-lying placenta. Caitlin's second baby was head down and was born vaginally but had a 4th degree tear with coached pushing. Caitlin's third baby was breech and involved changing care providers to achieve the vaginal birth she desired in a hospital setting at 39.6wks. To help support getting the Breech Birth Podcast stories out to women and their families across the world please make a small donation through Buy Me a Coffee https://buymeacoffee.com/breechbirthp...
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Toni shares her planned freebirth story with the support of her husband and friend. Toni had intuitive knowledge that her baby was breech before she was born and her baby remained posterior from rumping until the head was ready to be born. To help support getting the Breech Birth Podcast stories out to women and their families across the world please make a small donation through Buy Me a Coffee https://buymeacoffee.com/breechbirthp...
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Laura shares her planned frank breech homebirth story with the support of her midwife and doula. Due to breech birth being illegal in Alabama USA, Laura chose to drive interstate to achieve her preferred birth. Laura's baby required a shoulder press at birth but otherwise was well. To help support getting the Breech Birth Podcast stories out to women and their families across the world please make a small donation through Buy Me a Coffee https://buymeacoffee.com/breechbirthp...
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Henna shares her experience transferring between hospitals after discovering she had a breech baby. Henna chose to have a breech vaginal birth and received an episiotomy without consent at the birth due to a dropped foot and cord prolapse. Henna found out shortly after the birth that her baby's toe had been accidentally amputated during the episiotomy. To help support getting the Breech Birth Podcast stories out to women and their families across the world please make a small donation through Buy Me a Coffee https://buymeacoffee.com/breechbirthpodcast
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Faith shares her incredible story of determination and strength that was required to achieve her vaginal birth in a hospital setting. Faith had DiDi twins with both in a breech position for most of pregnancy and Twin B turning to head down toward the end. Faith vaginally birthed her babies and discusses the treatment she received and the ongoing battle after the birth. To help support getting the Breech Birth Podcast stories out to women and their families across the world please make a small donation through Buy Me a Coffee https://buymeacoffee.com/breechbirthpodcast
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Gemma shares her three breech birth stories and a snapshot of her head down baby's birth. Gemma has birthed one of her breech babies vaginally in the hospital, one via caesarean and then chose a freebirth for her last baby who was also breech. Gemma shares the intense experience she had with her first being a surprise breech in labour and receiving an episiotomy without consent. Gemma also felt little support or options with her second breech baby forcing her to opt for a caesarean. To help support getting the Breech Birth Podcast stories out to women and their families across the world please make a small donation through Buy Me a Coffee https://buymeacoffee.com/breechbirthpodcast
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Tamara shares her experience in having planned homebirths and with her last baby being a surprise breech her midwife required phone support from a doctor and manoeuvres were required. Unfortunately, Tamara's baby's arm was broken during a manoeuvre but Tamara shares the healing process was quick and additionally her baby required a stay in ICU due to concerns of lack of oxygen supply during the birth. Tamara shares insight and beautiful reflection on her birth. To help support getting the Breech Birth Podcast stories out to women and their families across the world please make a small donation through Buy Me a Coffee https://buymeacoffee.com/breechbirthpodcast
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