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Alyse Powell, CPM, LM

@naturallyminebirth

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Did you know that midwife Alyse has attended 8 sets of twins as an assistant, has primaried 5 breech labors/deliveries (not all of them were intentional! 😅), and assisted several more AT HOME?! These skills were traditionally passed down from midwife to midwife over generations and vaginal birth was the standard for all births. - Vaginal Breech only became non-standard within the last 25 years. ** approximately 50-60% of women who have never given birth will successfully deliver breech ** approximately 80% of women who have delivered vaginally will have a successful breech delivery. - Standardization of cesarean for twins initiated between 1995-2008. ** 60-75% of women who have never given birth will successfully deliver vaginally **up to 95% of twins will be delivered safely vaginally. Midwifery was stolen from women in the early 1900s affecting not only white midwives but disproportionately our Black and Indigenous providers who attempted to keep midwifery trafitions alive for decades especially among low and middle class women who couldn't afford hospital care. With a "revival" in the 1960s-70s that is still active today! How do you feel about twins and breech? Should they be allowed at home?

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