It makes you wonder just how far is it that we've come in terms of 'medical advances and safer births'? DH was a footling breech and being born in 1974 at a small country town hospital (which did do all the local births at that time), didn't even raise an eyebrow at his method of arrival. MIL didn't even know he was breech until they told her "here's the feet" and they just pulled him out - simple as that. No rushing off to emergency theatre for a c/s, they just got on with the business of getting him out.

So why has that thinking changed? What was the significant event that meant that Dr's didn't polish their skills at breech births anymore?