Can I have an easier labor this time?

Pregnant again after having had a long and/or difficult labor? Whether that challenge was clearly due to your first baby's position or you suspect it might have been, this page and this whole web site is for you.

Here is a list of activities for women who have had difficult births before: cesareans, long labors, posterior or asynclitic babies.  Women who have pelvic pain (in joints or in the lower back) or discomfort from the baby's movements are also candidates for this "second list." If you've had a breech baby before, these are good daily and weekly activities to promote a head down, anterior baby. 

Before you expect a problem, read What To Do Now In Pregnancy and The Three Principles. Usually a woman's second labor goes so well. Many times women feel so empowered that I share the mother's joyful surprise and exclaim with her, "Second babies are worth it!"

Yet, careful preparation for subsequent births can be what brings about that empowered feeling.

Look under the Start menu link and hover over In Pregnancy, click, and then hold your cursor over the Daily or Weekly Activities. How often? I'll leave that to you (though, I think the titles may give you a clue).

Spend a portion of each day doing 4-5 activities to increase body balance and flexibilty.

  • Rebozo sifting to relax the broad ligament
  • Standing (Sacral) Release to release the sacrum and help your pelvis become more mobile

  • Forward-leaning Inversion to balance your uterine ligaments and adjust your own pelvis with many repetitions of this type of maternal inversion

  • Psoas Release, also, walk briskly letting your legs swing forward from your thighs in a good flowing gait to help your psoas get happy
  • Pelvic-balancing yoga for pregnant women with "hip-openers," bridge pose, triangle pose of happiness, and more...*
  • Symphysis self adjustment*
  • Side-lying (pelvic floor) Release
  • When baby is active, then do 40 pelvic tilts on hands and knees, especially immediately following a Forward-leaning Inversion
  • Crawl around on all-fours for 5 or more minutes a few times a week, picking up toys, washing your floor.*

 *Not all of these activities are on this website yet. I'm sorry for the inconvenience.

If you've done the usual Spinning Babies exercises for two weeks and your baby is still breech, transverse, or posterior, seek professional body work help. See a body worker who can help bring you into balance. But continue to do these balancing exercises, too. 

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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 100 of you, 1/40th of one day's visitors, gave $6.80, or about 5 British Pounds (or, 68 people giving 10.00 each) we could get this job done and secure the website. 

ICould 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.

How are we doing? First day, 6 donations: $80 was given, Second day,  2 donations: $20.   Third day 3 donations: $70.  We can do it! Can we do it in a week??

 


 

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