Physiological Breech Birth Study Day - St George's Hospital - Day 2

This fully-evaluated study day for clinical skills trainers, obstetricians and midwives will provide an engaging and interactive update on professional skills to facilitate physiological breech births, planned or unexpected, and how to teach these skills to others. The focus is on collaborative, multi-professional working to improve the safety of vaginal breech birth using the skills of all maternity care professionals.

For practical questions about the event or venue, please contact Rebecca Rivers, Training Coordinator at [email protected]

Training will include:

* A research update

* Thorough theoretical and hands-on explanations of how breech babies journey through the maternal pelvis in a completely spontaneous birth (the breech mechanisms), enabling you to distinguish between normal progress and dystocia

* Hands-on simulation of complicated breech births and resolutions, using narratives and videos of real breech complications, to enable you to practice problem-solving in real time

* Models of breech care that work within modern maternity services

* One year's access to the online training course & video resources following the training

No refunds can be issued after 30 days prior to the event, but you are welcome to send someone else in your place. Refunds will incur an administrative fee. Please bring your own lunch.

Emma Spillane RM, MSc, Deputy Director of Midwifery:

Emma is an experienced midwife passionate about physiological breech birth, supporting women’s choices and midwifery research. She has worked in all areas of maternity care starting at Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford before moving to St George’s NHS Foundation Trust full-time in 2012. Here was the Lead for the Birth Centre, Continuity of Carer and the Breech Birth Service, practising her passion for physiological birth. During her time at St George’s, she had the opportunity to work on a project called Keeping Birth Normal and she presented on the positive outcomes after the implementation plan at the International Normal Birth Conference in 2017. From the findings of this project, she published an article in The Practicing Midwife in October 2018. As of May 2022 Emma has been the Deputy Director of Midwifery at Kingston Hospital where she is still able to work clinically and support the breech service maintaining her skills and competence.

Emma has been a Lead Trainer for Breech Birth Network teaching Physiological Breech Birth since January 2017. This role enabled her to develop a breech clinic at St George’s University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in collaboration with her Consultant Obstetrician colleagues as well as develop a breech team at Kingston Hospital.

Emma's Master’s thesis was on Optimal Time Intervals of Vaginal Breech Births: a case control study. Emma has also volunteered in Ethiopia training midwives where she facilitated another session on Physiological Breech Birth, tailoring the skills to the needs of the midwives working in remote low resourced settings.

References

Walker S, Das S, Stringer K, et al. How safe is it to plan a vaginal breech birth with OptiBreech collaborative care?: analysis of cumulative data within the OptiBreech Multiple Trials Cohort. NIHR Open Res. Published online 2023.

Walker SI, Spillane EI, Stringer K, et al. OptiBreech collaborative care versus standard care for women with a breech-presenting fetus at term: A pilot parallel group randomised trial to evaluate the feasibility of a randomised trial nested within a cohort. PLoS One. 2023;18(11):e0294139. doi:10.1371/JOURNAL.PONE.0294139

Walker S, Spillane E, Stringer K, Meadowcroft A, Dasgupta T, Davies SM, Sandall J, Shennan A, Batish A, Davidson L, Das S, Magurova L, Haroun G, Meates C, Houghton G, Le Grys H, 2023. The feasibility of team care for women seeking to plan a vaginal breech birth (OptiBreech 1): an observational implementation feasibility study in preparation for a pilot trial. Pilot Feasibility Stud. 9, 80. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-023-01299-x

Dasgupta, T, Hunter, S, Reid, S, et al. Breech specialist midwives and clinics in the OptiBreech Trial feasibility study: An implementation process evaluation. Birth. 2022; 00: 1- 10.

Spillane, E., Walker, S., McCourt, C., 2022. Optimal time intervals for vaginal breech births: a case-control study. NIHR Open Res. 2022 245 2, 45.

Timmons, P., Wallis, V., Walker, S. and Alleemudder, D. (2022), Management of term breech presentation. Obstet Gynecol.

Mattiolo, S., Spillane, E., & Walker, S. (2021). Physiological breech birth training: An evaluation of clinical practice changes after a one‐day training program. Birth, birt.12562.

Spillane E and Walker S (2019). Case Study Supporting Continuity of Care Models for Breech Presentation at or Near Term. The Practising Midwife, December:36-37

More publications: https://optibreech.uk/publications/ https://breechbirth.org.uk/publications/

• Tooting Broadway Station is roughly 10 min walk away.
• Parking is not guarenteed to be available. Please allow aduquate time if arriving by car.

Host or Publisher Breech Birth Network