We discussed these problems in our lecture on monday, the continuing lack of skills by midwives for vaginal breech and twin births also. Our scenario was a woman requesting a twin home birth and we had to discudss what we would do.

We then went off topic slightly by mentioning how rare breech is vaginally these days.

I remember vividly being on the albour ward a few months ago and seeing a woman rushed to theatre.. I said 'what's going on?' (thinking it was really bad) turns out it was an undiagnosed breech and the lady was pushing...

There appears to be very few midwives in the hospital who have ever delivered a breech baby, how sad.

My second mentor on community delivered a breech baby at home, she performed a VE to confim full dilatation as she had some idea that something 'wasn't quite right' she got a surprise and a finger of meconium and calmly told the woman...she delivered a baby boy thirty minutes later, no problems

Thankyou for the links, I will have a read, it is another thing I know little about as yet, but know vaginal breeches do not happen in our trust and are instant C/S

Thanks, Shoshana!

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