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"Elisheva S. Urbas" <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 3 Feb 1999 10:12:17 EST
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Before my first daughter was born I took a childbirth class with Elisabeth
Bing, a doyenne of American prepared childbirth, now in her 80s and still
quite active.

She had just come back from China where she had learned to encourage breech
babies to turn by **squeezing** the mother's 5th toes (on both feet).   Her
description of technique was:  "With the TV on, have your husband kneel at
your bare feet.  He should pinch each of your little toes with his index
finger and thumb of each hand, so that his finger is just outside the nail bed
and his thumb between the nail bed and the nearest adjoining toe.  Have him
stay that way for 20 minutes or so, once or twice a day."

In that class there were, at 36 or 37 weeks, one breech baby and one
transverse baby, and both turned vertex after doing this -- the transverse one
apparently quite dramatically immediately after it.

Obviously this story about my class is pure anecdote.  All the same, in light
of the nifty statistics in the moxibustion study, this technique  -- which
seems also related to the acupoint on the 5th toe and which is easier to do if
you don't live near someone who knows how to do moxibustion, not to mention
free and funny  -- seems worth a shot.

Good luck to her -- Elisheva Urbas, nyc

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