LOCATION:
Greenway Centre, Bristol:
 
Office & Meeting Room Hire in Bristol | Southmead, North Bristol
DESCRIPTION
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 local organiser, Sophia Hatfield, sophia.hatfield@nbt.nhs.uk. For questions about your booking, please contact the BBN Training Coordinator at events@breechbirth.org.uk.
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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
Please ensure you create an account in the OptiBreech Online Academy and access the free 
OptiBreech Evidence Base 2025
 online course prior to attending the training.
Facilitator:
Shawn Walker, RM, PhD
 is a clinical academic midwife consultant. She has researched how to improve competence, confidence and safety in vaginal breech birth for over 14 years. As a previous NIHR Advanced Fellow and Chief Investigator of the 
OptiBreech Trial
, Dr Walker led the only UK-based multi-centre breech study, a feasibility study of a new care pathway for women pregnant with a breech-presenting baby at term (
https://optibreech.uk
). She leads the vaginal breech birth and external cephalic version training segment of the RCOG Management of Labour Ward course.
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
 [version 1; peer review: 1 approved]. 
NIHR Open Res
 2023, 
3
:61 (
https://doi.org/10.3310/nihropenres.13500.1
)
Walker S, Spillane E, 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
Shetty SS, Walker S, Fox-Rushby J, 
Managing uncomplicated singleton breech pregnancy using ‘OptiBreech collaborative care’ pathway: early economic model and value of information analysis
, Value in Health (2025).
Davies SM, Hodder A, Walker S, Bale N, Vincent H, Dasgupta T, et al. 
The OptiBreech Trial Feasibility Study: A Qualitative Inventory of the Roles and Responsibilities of Breech Specialist Midwives.
 Journal of Midwifery & Women’s Health. 2025 (online early view).
Vincent H, Walker S, Hodder A, et al. 
Barriers and facilitators for implementation of OptiBreech collaborative care: A qualitative study as part of an implementation process evaluation
. Women and Birth. 2024;37(5):101656. doi:10.1016/J.WOMBI.2024.101656
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. doi: 10.1111/birt.12685 – The full study exploring the acceptability of proficient breech team care for women. Be sure to read the supplementary file containing quotes from women who participated in the research.
Walker S, Dasgupta T, Halliday A, & Reitter A (2021). 
Development of a core outcome set for effectiveness studies of breech birth at term (Breech-COS): a systematic review on variations in outcome reporting.
 
European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology
.
https://twitter.com/sheena_byrom/status/1659198509642563585?s=20
Additional publications:
Walker S, Daelemans C, Gerhard-Nielsen K, Das S, Page L. Variations of cervical head entrapment in vaginal breech births: New insights on how to prevent, manage and resolve. Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol. 2024;299:78-82. 
doi:10.1016/j.ejogrb.2024.05.039
Bresson J, Christie K, Walker S, 2023. 
Not too fast, not too slow: A review of historical trends in vaginal breech time management
. 
Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol
 287, 216–220. 
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejogrb.2023.06.015
Roy R*, Gray C*, Prempeh-Bonsu CA and Walker S, 2023. 
What are women’s experiences of seeking to plan a vaginal breech birth? A systematic review and qualitative meta-synthesis
 [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]. 
NIHR Open Res
 2023, 
3
:4 (
https://doi.org/10.3310/nihropenres.13329.1
) * 
Joint first authors
https://twitter.com/AliOtter/status/1617256954291707913?s=20&t=o-0vJqVK7ZWZjJ0UOa98Pg
Walker, S., Roberts, P., Boulding Harriet, 2022. 
Breech Clinics and Specialist Midwives Toolkit
 [WWW Document]. OptiBreech Project Blog. URL 
https://optibreech.uk/2022/09/18/breech-clinics-and-specialist-midwives-toolkit/
(accessed 12.24.22).
Spillane E, Walker S and McCourt C. 
Optimal time intervals for vaginal breech births: a case-control study
 [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations, 1 not approved]. 
NIHR Open Res
 2022, 
2
:45 (
https://doi.org/10.3310/nihropenres.13297.2
)- Research by our lead investigator at Kingston Hospital.
Das S. (2023) 
Resurrecting a lost obstetric skill to reduce global maternal death
. 
BMJ Global Health Blog
. — Miss Das is our lead investigator at Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea Hospital.
Timmons P, Wallis V, Walker S and Alleemudder D, 2022. 
Management of term breech presentation
. 
Obstet Gynecol
. 25(1):8-18. – An update article for professionals.
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/
STUDY DAY AGENDA
:
09:00_____ Welcome & housekeeping
09:15_____ Introduction to principles of physiological breech birth
09:45_____ Management of labour
10:45_____ BREAK
11:15_____ All about the legs
11:45_____ Cross-body arm sweep
12:15_____ Rotational manoeuvres for extended arms
13:00_____ LUNCH
14:00_____ Shoulder press
14:30_____ Scoop and Flex and Forceps
15.00_____ Complex and extended heads
15.30_____ Video case reviews and practice
16.00_____ FINISH
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