Breech & Twin Master Class

The Breech and Twins Master Class is an advanced education class that builds upon the material within Breech Pro 2.0. It is a full day of lecture with birth videos from both hospital & out-of-hospital settings, images, and stories of personal experience, which allow students to visualize and understand the complex the teaching points.

This course is geared towards out-of-hospital birth providers and does address breech and multiples at term. Practitioners from any background may take the course and hospital management is discussed. CMEs/CEUs available in most locations.

Some highlights of what the course covers:

• Breech & twin labor

• Extraction maneuvers

• Posterior rotation

• Hyperextended head

• Placentation and chorionicity

• TTTS

• Growth and weight discordance

• Intrapartum management of multiples

• Impaction dystocias

• Internal version and extraction

• Mitigating trauma

• Counseling clients

Pre-requisites:

Current enrollment in Breech Pro 2.0
Attendance of a BWB full-day hybrid training within the 6 months before the date of the Master Class.

About the Instructor:

Kristine Lauria is BWB's Global Midwifery Director. She also spends part of every year on assignment for Médecins Sans Frontières.

She specializes in high-risk maternity care in low-resource environments and is passionate in her support of bodily autonomy in medical decision making and is a staunch advocate for undisturbed, physiologic birth.

She has attended thousands of births in more than 25 countries around the world; many of them being vaginal breech births. Her unique experience with countless sets of vaginal twins along with sets of vaginal triplets makes her beyond qualified to bring this knowledge.

Her knowledge and unique experiences are shared throughout this course.

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