Much as I love to exchange midwifery lore, the focus of Lactnet is not wide
enough to allow for extensive side threads about such things as turning
breeches, or the mechanisms by which they navigate their way out, unless
these things have direct bearing on the breastfeeding for the baby in
question.  Please do continue this discussion, just off the list.

I'm about to go on call for a home birth so am staying nomail on Lactnet and
reading at the archives site.  Last homebirth I attended was of a baby whose
mother used the Hypnobirthing CD set, and that baby turned spontaneously
from breech to vertex in week thirty-eight after mother used the Turn Baby
Turn CD.  With a single subject, not exactly a randomized controlled trial,
but it worked for them :-)  To bring it back to breastfeeding, I can just
say that the mother is in my local breastfeeding mothers' group.

Norway is to my knowledge the only country in the industrialized world that
is still following a policy of normal birth for breech, if you can call
birth in tertiary care center normal.  It does mean that we are maintaining
skills among birth attendants, and it means fewer cesareans overall, which
as we all know is good for breastfeeding.

Rachel Myr, with both her listmother and midwife hats on in Kristiansand,
Norway, where spring has nearly sprung and I've slept all through a glorious
sunny weekend because I am working nights, drat it all

 "I think that taking life seriously means something such as this: that
whatever man does on this planet has to be done in the lived truth of the
terror of creation, of the grotesque, of the rumble of panic underneath
everything. Otherwise it is false."  --Ernest Becker

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