Kristine Lauria is an internationally recognized American midwife who has been attending women in birth since 1989. She works for MSF (Doctors Without Borders) when she is not traveling and teaching. She specializes in breech and multiples and is the subject of the upcoming documentary, Allowed to Birth - The Journey of a Globally Midwife. She lives in the upper peninsula of Michigan with her dog.

https://www.allowedtobirth.com

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Dr Victoria Flores went through Neurobiology and Behaviour at UCIrvine, medical school at USC School of Medicine, then Residency training years at Kern Medical Center in Bakersfield and a partial Chief Year at Tufts Medical Ctr in Boston. Dr Flores then ran away from the chaos of administration to a personally created space of Home Birth for Breech and Twins after an apprenticeship with Dr. Stuart Fischbein of Birthing Instincts. Dr. Victoria Flores brings rare and deeply rooted expertise in the vaginal birth of twins and breech presented babies into the home settings. With years of hands-on experience and a profound respect for the body’s wisdom, Dr. Flores has safely supported many families through births that are often deemed too risky outside of a hospital. Dr. Flores reflects on how spirituality and faith have emboldened her confidence in this sacred work, and how this has helped her navigate what many see as "forbidden territory." Committed to reviving a dying art, she speaks passionately about the need for skilled and spiritually attuned practitioners to step forward. Birth, in all its complexity and beauty, can still honour the deep faith that people hold in their God, their bodies, and the process of life’s purpose. https://victoriamdbirthing.com

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The birth of her first child was profoundly life-altering in the most beautiful way. Inspired by that experience, Brooke felt called to support others in their own journeys and began her transition into birth work, attending her first birth as a doula in 2006.

Throughout her years of serving women and families, she has been blessed to learn from exceptional mentors both locally and internationally.

Brooke is deeply passionate about providing families with evidence-based information and genuine choices so they can make independent, informed decisions for themselves and their babies. She has a special love for educating about breech and twin births at home and prioritizes ongoing education.

Over the years, Brooke has also served on the Board of Directors for North Carolina Friends of Midwives, the North Carolina Herb Association, and the Carolina Birth Alliance.

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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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