AIMS Guide to Breech Birth

2026

Principal Author - Joy Horner

AVAILABLE TO PRE ORDER NOW FOR DISPATCH MID OCTOBER

Finding out that your baby is in a breech position can come as a surprise.
You may find yourself trying to interpret complex information and hearing
differing opinions, which can mean making decisions feels difficult and perhaps,
overwhelming. This book has been written to help you make the decisions that are
right for you and your baby.

The AIMS Guide to Breech Birth describes what breech presentation is and how
it might affect your choices for birth. It reviews the evidence about benefits and
downsides of medical and other methods for encouraging a breech baby to turn to
a head down position, and of planning a vaginal or a caesarean breech birth.
It also offers information to help you plan the type of breech birth you want.
There is detailed information about what happens in both a physiological or a
more managed vaginal breech birth and the medical interventions that might be
offered to assist a vaginal breech birth.

The AIMS Guide to Breech Birth is also a handbook for those working in any part
of our maternity services, for birth workers and anyone else supporting parents
whose baby is breech. 

"a valuable companion for anyone navigating a breech pregnancy"
Amy Meadowcroft, Breech Specialist Midwife