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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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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