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Breech Basics Online (BB)


Description
Welcome to Breech Basics, a unique perspective "resting on the shoulders of giants." Gail Tully shows you how to use Spinning Babies® insights on pelvic diameters to free a stuck breech. In this course, Gail shows birth videos, narrates slides, video clips, case studies, and stories. Spinning Babies® is accredited as a provider of continuing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation (ANCC). This course provides three (3) continuing education contact hours from ANCC. Recommended for providers and birth workers.

Learning Objectives

  • Compares normal mechanism of breech rotation and descent with obstructed breech

  • Demonstrates safe rotation of the breech to free obstructed arms with birth giver on all-fours

  • Demonstrates safe flexion of the breech head to free obstructed breech head

Content
  • Welcome to Breech Basics Online
  • Take the Pre-test and move on. Answers are not corrected until the Post Test.
  • Module 1: Know This First
  • 1.0 Miri Is Born
  • 1.1 An Overview of Physiological Breech Birth
  • 1.2 Positions for Babies and Birth Givers
  • 1.3 Anatomy of Breech Birth
  • 1.4 Midwifery Role in Breech Birth
  • 1.5 Physiology Before Force
  • 1.6 Why Breech Babies Die
  • Module 2: Normal Mechanism of Breech
  • 2.0 Intro to Normal Mechanisms of Breech Birth
  • 2.1 How Normal Breech Appears
  • 2.1a Normal Breech Arm Rotation
  • 2.2 Hands-off the Breech
  • 2.3 Miri's Birth Once More, Close Up
  • 2.4 Breech Birth of Luna
  • Module 3: Obstructed Breech
  • 3.0 Intro to Obstructed Breech Birth
  • 3.1 Hands-on the Breech: Restoring Normal
  • 3.2 Shoulders Across the Top (Inlet)
  • 3.3 Head on the Inlet; Up high
  • 3.4 Symphysis pubis and tailbone torsions
  • 3.5 Midpelvis: Head in oblique
  • 3.6 Outlet: Deflexed or Extended Head
  • Module 4: Application and Practice
  • 4.0 Intro to Application & Practice
  • 4.1 Identify And Release Obstructed Arms
  • 4.2 Safe Release of the Breech Head
  • 4.3 When There Is No Contraction
  • 4.4 Breech Water Birth With Head Stuck
  • Post-test
  • Post-test
  • References
  • Bibliography
  • Module 5: Breech Case Studies and Further Learning
  • Intro to Case Studies and Further Learning
  • Case Study 1: Lateral Flexion
  • Case Study 2: Arm Obstruction
  • Case Study 3: Head obstructions
  • Case Studies 4 & 5: Pelvic Variations
  • Other examples of Hands-on the Breech
  • Archeological finding of a breech death
  • Legal Facts You Want To Know For Teaching
  • Usage Guidelines
Completion rules
  • You must complete the test "Post-test"
  • Leads to a certificate with a duration: 2 years
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