Reclaiming Breech Birth Workshop

The Reclaiming Breech Birth Workshop is endorsed by the Australian College of Midwives worth 6 CPD and was designed to increase knowledge and skills around breech vaginal birth for Midwives, Doctors and Students with the intention to offer this course to rural and remote areas. As an endorsed midwife, Sasha has completed training with both Breech Without Borders (2022, 2025 & 2026) and Dr Stuart Fischbein (2024) and continues to maintain these skills at least twice a year attending simulation training with other midwives in her area. Since attending her first breech training in November 2022, Sasha has been supporting planned (and surprise) breech births. Sasha has experience teaching vaginal breech birth to the local midwives on training days and facilitated a breech workshop at the Homebirth Australia Conference in 2024. Prior to becoming an endorsed midwife, Sasha was a student facilitator at her local public hospital and is also an antenatal educator currently teaching at a private midwifery practice on the sunshine coast periodically since 2020.

 

The Reclaiming Breech Birth Workshop was established in 2024 and Sasha has taught in the following locations:

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Hospitals & Health Services:

- Cooma Hospital NSW

- Waminda Aboriginal Women’s Health Corporation Nowra NSW

- Coffs Harbour Health Campus NSW

- Latrobe Regional Hospital, Traralgon VIC

- Mount Gambier Hospital, Mount Gambier SA

- North Canberra Hospital, Canberra ACT

- Connected Midwifery Wide Bay, Bundaberg QLD (Private Midwifery Practice)

- New Life Midwifery, Ipswich QLD (Private Midwifery Practice)

- Coast Life Midwifery, Maroochydore QLD (Private Midwifery Practice)

- The Midwives House, Thornbury VIC (Private Midwifery Practice)

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Universities:

- Australian Catholic University, Banyo QLD

- University of Canberra, Canberra ACT

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Private Venues:

- Rockhampton QLD

- Atherton QLD

- Gladstone QLD

- Townsville QLD

- Sale VIC

- Crabbes Creek NSW

- Perth WA

- Adelaide SA

 

Sasha finds sharing the knowledge learned through her own experiences is rewarding and believes physiological breech birth should be understood by all especially those working in the birth space. If a woman chooses to birth her breech baby vaginally she should have access to the information and support she needs. In the event of a surprise breech, both the woman and her baby will have better outcomes if her health care provider is competent and confident with breech birth. As a midwife, Sasha believes it is our duty of care to ensure a woman has the right to choose how and where she births. 

 

What is involved in the Reclaiming Breech Birth Workshop?

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The Reclaiming Breech Birth Workshop is a full day training from 9:00am – 4:30pm. Arrival and check in from 8:45am and finish by 4:30pm.

Morning and afternoon tea will be provided. BYO lunch.

Breech Birth Manoeuvre Guide included.

The day will include the following:

 

• Check in and welcome.

• Antenatal education & management.

• Witnessing breech, fear verses trust.

• Understanding physiological breech birth.

• Determining deviations from physiological.

• Understanding the research.

• Supporting the woman – advocacy & documentation.

• After birth & what to expect.

• Simulation demonstration of breech manoeuvres.

• Simulation practice of manoeuvres & group discussions.

• Breech birth videos.

• Questions.

• Certificates and feedback forms.​​​​​