Pelvic Floor Release prevents 3rd Cesarean

Hi Gail,

I took your workshop at DONA this
summer [2011], and have really been enjoying incorporating all of your info into my work.
 
First, I wanted to thank you for your wonderful website. (Love the updates.)  I send clients there regularly; but am exceptionally thankful for the mom I helped VBA2C yesterday with your help. 
 
Her last two C's were due to failure to progress - She got to 7 and 9 cm each time. 22 and 31 hours of labor.  One baby was posterior, she is unsure about the other. I suspect that one was also some kind of positional issue. 
 
Pelvic Floor Release or Side-lying Release to help engagement and over come an asynclitic presentation in laborI had her doing your techniques during pregnancy, and also had her getting Chiropractic care.  She delivered a beautiful baby girl yesterday  only 12 hours after her very first hint at labor. We used the pelvic floor release when she was stuck at 6cm for an hour and she immediately progressed!  Thanks so much for all you do!!

Amy Peterson CD(DONA), CLC
houndhill.com
 
 
Amy added later, in another email:
 
"I wish I had thought to take her picture while we were doing the release - but dad was asleep and I had my hands full LOL!    - Next time!!   I had been joking with mom at the time that I was going to tell you about her if this worked.

You should also know that the hospital I was at uses your techniques too!  One of the nurses has been teaching the others about it.   The nurse I was working with knew the [side-lying] pelvic floor release was a "spinning babies position",  but didn't know what it was called..."


When Amy asked the mother for my permission to post her story on this page, the mother wrote back:

Hi, Amy: 
 
Please feel free to pass my information along to Gail (name and picture would be absolutely fine) - her website was an amazing resource towards the end of my pregnancy and I really do believe that every little bit helped to prepare both myself and the baby for the actual birth.
 
 
Photo is of this amazing mama, Tania, and her baby Alice! 
What a great moment caught by doula Amy Peterson, houndhill.com
 

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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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