How is Spinning Babies Different?

Spinning Babies is an approach to childbirth preparation like no other.

Mom's job is to dilate, but baby' s job is to rotate. If we can help baby's job be easier, we can make labor easier for the mother as well. Now, women wanting a natural, or physiological childbirth can learn the Principles and techniques to empower their dream. 

 

Spinning Babies began where Optimal Fetal Positioning left off. OFP was a break-through concept in childbirth. Read praise for Optimal Fetal Positioning and the midwife/childbirth educator duo who began it on my Optimal Fetal Positioning article.

Spinning Babies recognizes that, though the maternity provider is focused on the mother's dilation, labor progress is often dependent on baby's rotation. To fit the pelvis better, the baby's job is to rotate, or spin around, to face mother's back whenever possible. This website teaches mother's and their helpers how to make rotation easier for the baby.

 

Spinning Babies begins with a series of activities for Balancing the mother's body. When a mother's body is generally symmetrical, and what I mean is that she doesn't have a misaligned pelvis or have super tight ligaments or muscles on one side of her uterus. Symmetry helps the baby aim into the pelvis more easily. Body balancing comes through body work and a woman's own activities. Spinning Babies also maintains the trust of birth through traditional midwifery skills for the long labor.

 

 Spinning Babies? -'Doesn't sound very nice. Sounds, kind of, like juggling kittens." - comment by Andrea Millage, Minnesota.

Spinning Babies is the active part of patience.

Spinning Babies hopes to prevent common problems from malpositions of the baby's head. Malposition is a harsh word meaning the head is, either, not coming into the pelvis first, or not coming in the easiest way to mold, or shape, itself to fit.  When the head is at a difficult angle, especially when mother’s muscles or pelvic tendons are tight, hours or even days can be added to the length of labor.

Please remember, some of these babies who are labeled as “malpositioned” are born with little trouble and no interventions.

But, because a large minority of posterior and breech babies (and all babies lying sideways in a transverse lie) may need surgery to get born, Spinning Babies Website presents a way to help you reduce complications due to fetal malposition.

Fetal positions defined. Read the Anatomy of Spinning Babies.

 

 

"You are a treasure, Gail. I use your website at so many births (I seem to attract these malpositioned babies). I've sent you a paypal donation before and will again. Who knows how many labors were shortened by hours because of the information on Spinning Babies."

Warmly,
H B, doula, Chicago

 




  

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Spinning Babies is facing an immediate "migration," new software installation for the behind the scenes portion of the website at cost of $680. This massive update is crucial for security and functionality. Alternatively, I could take the 100+ pages down and restart the site with new software at a lower cost, but much less content. Would you be ok with a 10 page site carrying only an outline of information? That's about how many other websites treat their content.

 Are you a woman or a loved one of a woman helped to avoid a cesarean by Spinning Babies Website? Has Spinning Babies helped you serve birthing families with techniques for labor progress? Do you have a little time to help Spinning Babies in return? If the migration costs $680 and 100 of my loyal users gave $68 dollars each, we'd get it covered. 

Did you know that Spinning Babies was hacked a few summers ago and had to go off line while I found hosting with security? Security is a real issue on the internet. 

Several years ago a grandmother donated $150 after a visit to Spinning Babies Website helped her daughter avoid a cesarean. Once a woman sent $50 because exercises on Spinning Babies stopped her hip pain and she was able to sleep well for the first time during the end of her pregnancy. Today, just a few dollars a year come through donations. Ever since the booklet went on sale donations dropped off. Could it be that people think sales income is significant to carry the website? I wish it were so, and do hope to boost the store soon.

Right now Spinning Babies is in need and so I'm asking those of you among my 4000 daily visitors to give something back. "Wait, Seriously?" you ask, "4000 people a day and only a few small donations a year!?" Yep, that's true.  If 400 of you, 1/10th of one day's visitors, gave $20,  or 15 Pounds,  we could get this job done and secure the website. 

 

Could it be that Spinning Babies has become such a part of the childbirth education scene that its taken for granted? Spinning Babies doesn't get grants. Spinning Babies isn't a nonprofit (But my husband will be surprised to hear that.)  I love giving this information as a gift to the birthing world, I'm rather delighted to help a woman understand she doesn't have to accept a cesarean before labor just because her baby is posterior! Or, help a woman flip her breechling head down. But with the cost of web maintainance increasing, I have to rethink how I might support my work.  

If you aren't able to give such a chunk of change, can you send your sympathy for $5? Or, are you a loyal Spinning Babies user who gives their undying support for $100? 

 

What ever you can send now will be seen as a huge message of support to keep Spinning Babies safe and online. Protecting one woman's birth just takes 4 minutes.

 

 


 

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