Breech Skills and Drills
Deepen your hands-on experience, troubleshooting techniques, and build confidence through guided practice with Sophie dolls.
15th August 2025
On Gadigal land and waterways at,
The International Convention Centre, Darling Harbour, Sydney.
Keep your breech skills fresh
Last year Dr Stuart Fischbein toured Australia and provided training for many Midwives looking to learn how to manage a breech birth. In addition to this Breech Without Borders has been providing breech training for many years.
Refine your hands-on breech skills with Dr Rixa Freeze from Breech Without Borders in this practical, immersive session designed for those who have already completed formal breech training. This small-group session is all about deepening your hands-on experience, troubleshooting techniques, and building confidence through guided practice with Sophie dolls.
The Details
- Date: Friday, 15th August
- Time: 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM
- Location: ICC Sydney, Darling Harbour
- Format: Casual, drop-in/drop-out as needed, or stay for the full 3 hours
- What to Expect: Hands-on breech drills, skill refinement, and real-time guidance
- Investment: $220 per ticket
PLACES ARE LIMITED
Join us for this unique opportunity to train with one of the leading experts in breech birth! See you there!
Meet Dr Rixa Freeze
Dr Freeze is the founder and president of Breech Without Borders, a 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to breech training, education, and advocacy. She blogs at Stand and Deliver.
Dr 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. Her current research interests include human rights in childbirth, autonomy and informed consent, and vaginal breech birth.
She has published two articles about home birth: “Staying Home to Give Birth: Why Women in the United States Choose Home Birth” (JMWH 2009) and “Attitudes Towards Home Birth in the USA” (Expert Review of Obstetrics & Gynecology 2010). She has also published about outcomes of planned breech and twin home births (Fischbein & Freeze 2018 in BMC Pregnancy & Childbirth, Fischbein & Freeze 2024 in PLOS One). In 2019 she published an article about outcomes of breech at home, birth centres, and hospitals in Midwifery Today and a book chapter “Freebirth in the United States” in the 2020 book Birthing Outside the System: The Canary in the Coal Mine. She is the lead author of the textbook A Guide to Physiological Breech Birth, now in its 2nd edition.
LinkedIn: Rixa Freeze
Instagram: @breechwithoutborders
Do you have questions about the training?
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