Dr Cha'ban was born in 1966 and is married with 3 adult daughters. Syrian - Bulgarian origine. Dr Cha'ban came to Belgium when he was 8years old and has been an Obstetrician for the past 30years. Dr Cha'ban has delivered around 11,000 children of which 500 breech babies. Dr Cha'ban describes himself as a breech addict and still learning every day. His ultimate goal "I want to put breech deliveries back on track worldwide". Dr Cha'ban is a breech birth educator and trainer with Breech Without Borders.

https://www.breechwithoutborders.org/firas/

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Ashlee is a midwife, wife and mother of three (including twins) living in Sydney. She has been a midwife for over 15 years and is currently practicing as a Privately Practicing Midwife. She is passionate about empowering women to make informed choices about their care, whilst committed to extensive ongoing professional development to ensure that she can work with clients to deliver the best care. Ashlee attends a mix of home births and hospitals births and has a special interest in twins, breech and VBAC births. Ashlee is a cofounder of @thebreechcollective and looking to further the role of midwives in breech birth.

https://www.thebreechcollective.com.au

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Stuart James Fischbein MD is a community-based obstetrician and an Associate of the American College of Obstetrics & Gynecology, published author of “Fearless Pregnancy, Wisdom & Reassurance from a Doctor, A Midwife and A Mom” and peer-reviewed papers below. After completing his residency at Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre in LA, CA, Dr. Stu, spent 24 years assisting women in hospital and, for the next 12+ years, was a homebirth obstetrician who worked with midwives assisting local Southern California families. Since retiring from attending homebirths in late 2022, Dr. Stu has turned his focus to traveling the world as a lecturer and advocate for reteaching breech & twin birth skills. He hosts Birthing Instincts Podcast with co-host Blyss Young and together they offer hope, reassurance and evidence supported choices for those women who understand pregnancy is a normal bodily function not to be feared. Instagram @birthinginstincts

www.birthinginstincts.com

www.birthinginstinctspodcast.com

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30305050/

https://medcraveonline.com/OGIJ/OGIJ-02-00046.pdf

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39661588/

https://www.ijcriog.com/archive/article-full-text/100042Z08SF2018

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Whitney Pinger CNM MSN FACNM has been training and serving as a midwife for almost 50 years. For most of them, she has been a champion of physiologic, uninterrupted birth in academic medical centres. Her practice, WISDOM Midwifery, is rooted in The Midwifery Pearls, the evidence-based strategies that optimize physiologic birth and The Pinger Patterns of Labor, her innovative labour management paradigm that promotes communication and collaboration. Vaginal breech birth has always been a part of her clinical practice, and while an Associate Clinical Professor at the George Washington University she was a part of a team that initiated the GW Breech Initiative, a collaborative practice model to provide and teach vaginal breech birth. In this collaborative model of care, midwives and doctors are seen as equal partners with different skill sets and are willing partners to support the physiologic breech process. In addition to being a Training Specialist, Whitney is Breech Without Border’s Collaborative Practice Director and is deeply committed to the education of the next generation of doctors, midwives, and nurses.

Mama Sherpas: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKeezAWbJcIu0LA4Xx2AwiLnZvUMCJcY-

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Rixa Freeze has a PhD in American Studies from the University of Iowa. Her doctoral studies focused on the history of healthcare and medicine with specialization in pregnancy, childbirth, and maternity care. Her dissertation examined why women in North America choose unassisted home births. She worked as a visiting assistant professor for 9 years at Wabash College before founding Breech Without Borders in 2018. BWB is a 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to breech training, education, and advocacy.

https://www.breechwithoutborders.org

She has published about why women choose home birth (JMWH 2009) and attitudes towards home birth in the US (Exp Rev ObGyn 2010). In 2018, she co-authored a study of breech and cephalic home births (BMC Preg Child). The following year, she published an article about outcomes of breech at home, birth centres, and hospitals (Midwifery Today). She co-authored a chapter “Freebirth in the United States” in the 2020 book Birthing Outside the System: The Canary in the Coal Mine. Her analysis of 100 sets of twin home births, co-authored with Stuart Fischbein, was published in December 2024 with PLOS ONE. She is the lead author of the textbook A Guide to Physiological Breech Birth, now in its 2nd edition.

Current research projects include a video analysis of 207 physiological breech births, a qualitative analysis of the obstacles American physicians face in supporting vaginal breech birth, a review of the effectiveness of an international vaginal breech training program, and outcomes of an initiative to increase the vaginal twin birth rate in 2 Italian hospitals. She also oversees bachelor and doctoral research projects relating to breech birth.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30305050/

https://obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ijgo.12033

https://www.authorea.com/doi/full/10.22541/au.175044419.92924866/v1

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16580289/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16099580/

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Blyss Young, LM, CPM is a midwife, teacher and mentor devoted to women’s wisdom across the thresholds of life. Her work is shaped by decades in midwifery, deep clinical experience, and profound personal loss. With years of experience supporting physiological birth, mentoring birthworkers, and walking with women through grief and transformation, Blyss brings depth, presence, and a deep rooted passion for sovereignty to her work.

Blyss is the founder of The Bridge Midwives, co-host of the Birthing Instincts podcast, and host of At Her Feet, where she centers conversation, lived experience, and traditional wisdom in modern maternity care. She currently serves her community in Ashland, Oregon as a traditional midwife.

https://www.birthingblyss.com/home

https://www.birthinginstincts.com/blyss-young

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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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