Gail Tully, Author at Spinning Babies

Clarity in Your Birth

Many visitors to Spinning Babies Website are looking for effective help for an easier birth. We suggest using Spinning Babies Daily Activities as a part of preparation for birth. Daily movement and maternal positioning can be added to a great pregnancy diet, deep and full breathing, learning about birth and parenting, enjoying good communication and […]

Will Shoulder Dystocia Occur?

A doula friend of mine, “J,” asks how real is the Doctor’s concern that a mother with an estimated projected fetal weight of 11 pounds by the time of the due date will have a shoulder dystocia. “They had her see the OB and heard the reasons for perhaps choosing a repeat surgical birth. She […]

Not Afraid to Care

“The 2014 West African Ebola outbreak killed 11,310 people. Liberian nursing assistant Salome Karwah was not one of them.” says Time Magazine. “…as soon as she recovered, she returned to the hospital where she had been treated — the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF, or Doctors Without Boarders) Ebola treatment unit just outside of the capital, […]

Is There Still Time to Flip My Breech Baby?

Spinning Babies helps flip a breech The look that says, “I did it myself!” At 36 weeks the midwives were adamant there was a less than 3% chance of my baby turning from the frank breech position and had never heard of any exercises to do. I was recommended to have ECV [external cephalic version […]

Planned Birth Benefits and Risks

Women today are sometimes encouraged to finish pregnancy and have their babies delivered. The suggestion can create a sense that induction or a cesarean is the route to safety. For many pregnant people the alternative of continuing the pregnancy until nature decides the birthday no longer feels natural or safe. But what are the actual […]

Doctor Was Surprised: Transverse Baby Went Head down at Term

Doctors schedule a cesarean when a baby is lying sideways in the womb and the due date is less than a month away. This may be because it is rare to have the transverse lying baby move on their own to a head down position. The transverse baby lies sideways across the top of the […]

Belly Mapping

Gail Tully is the developer and creator of Belly Mapping. Belly Mapping is a 3-step process to estimate your baby’s position in the womb. Many pregnant people can estimate with fairly good accuracy in their last trimester of pregnancy. Step 1. Feel the contours of your baby with the pads of your fingers. In […]

Three Levels to Avoiding a Cesarean

The pelvis has 2 distinct areas for birth, the area for getting in and the area for getting out. But there is also the middle. Three Levels of the Pelvis Inlet for Getting In Mid pelvis for turning Outlet for Getting Out Assessing progress in labor includes noting which of these three levels the baby […]

Daily Activities Are “Essential” but…

We at Spinning Babies recommend beginning Daily Activities as you feel fit for simple activities. We don’t recommend “feeling the burn” but rather listening and respecting your changing body to feel the stretch. Moving through a pose slowly and holding it with good alignment is more important for supple flexibility. If you like the social […]

Trying Spinning Babies for the first time

Try this food…. you’ll like it! Listen to this electronic brain-wave music…. it’ll boost your productivity! Let’s visit my college friend, you’ll have fun… Does trying something new seem risky? The activities on Spinning Babies can seem novel and strange for many people. How do we know if something new is beneficial? Choosing to try […]

Spinning Babies® Conference 2016

Sweet ’16 The Success of Our Confluence The new paradigm is begun In 20 minutes on Sunday afternoon as participants left I heard, “This was the best conference I’ve been to in my life.” heard 3x in a row “This was the best conference I’ve been to in my career.”“The was the best conference […]