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Response to Denise Bolds’ Spinning While Black Blog Post

Denise Bolds, Bold Doula was a welcome participant at our recent Spinning Babies 2016 World Confluence and wrote a blog about the whiteness of the conference and trainers. Her title, Spinning While Black is a play on her series, Birthing While Black.    https://boldlioness.blogspot.com/2016/10/spinning-while-black-denise-bolds-msw.html                                                                                                            2 October, 2016                                                                                           Dear Denise, I so enjoyed your […]

Jacob Wetterling

We were about to move, I was 8 months pregnant and I was restless. In my state of searching for a safe nest the television news report shocked the nation and shocked me to my gestating core. Three boys were riding their bikes home in a small town in Minnesota when a perpetrating criminal stopped […]

Easier Birth with Spinning Babies®

Midwife Nicole Schlogel sends a story of easier birth. Spinning Babies preparation in pregnancy and early labor helped turn this woman’s births around!   Tina’s  first baby had been in an OP position at the onset of labour which resulted in a long latent labour, total exhaustion, an epidural shortly after arriving in hospital, an […]

Deciding About Interventions

Spinning Babies You can aid your chance of a vaginal birth by activities before and during childbirth to make room for your baby. Easier birth for babies means easier birth for mothers. I ask women making decisions about their pregnancy and birth a question to help them know their own minds. "If you imagine yourself a year from now, looking back at your birth, what will you feel about the decision." "Will you feel you did what satisfies you that you did the best of your ability to live the way you believe?" Your ability might be expressed in one or more of these ways: Your ability to communicate your desires to your partner, family, and medical support. You said the words that would let your birth team know your preferences You took a reasonable amount of action that would bring about health, flexibility and birth the way you see fit. You said no to things that made you uncomfortable that they might betray your ethics or better sense, that reduce your vitality or self-connection. You said yes to people and things that seem likely to help you, even if they are unusual - unusual but not wrong, against nature, against common sense, or in denial of a health risk that may reasonably need medical assistance. You made changes to obtain the opportunities where you could express your best birth. Now you are ready to make a decision. You will not be a victim but a creator of your future. Decision Time. Whatever you decide, whatever course you choose, the most important thing is love. Enjoy this post? You also might like: Intervention and support in difficult childbirth Supporting Innate Knowledge Choosing Cesarean or Labor Clarity in Your Birth Upcoming Workshops

You can aid your chance of a vaginal birth by activities before and during childbirth to make room for your baby. Easier birth for babies means easier birth for mothers. I ask women making decisions about their pregnancy and birth a question to help them know their own minds. “If you imagine yourself a year […]

40 Weeks, Lots of Fluid, Baby Not Engaged

Congratulations on your baby, beautiful Mama! You’ve made it to 40 weeks and have much reason to be proud! But you’re doctor has expressed a concern that the baby’s head is not yet in the pelvis. Julie checks to see if her baby’s head is in the pelvis and finds that is not.   This […]

The New Face of America’s Breech Experts

Many hospital systems have taken to denying their doctors give vaginal breech birth care for families carrying breech babies. These are physicians who’ve devoted their lives to giving excellent obstetrical care. I believe they have a right to provide that care. I believe midwives who obtain the added expertise also have the right to provide […]

Face Presentation

Some of us like to face the music, face the facts, turn to the light, face life full on… The baby who is coming face first, or face presentation, most often is born fine in this position. There may be a little slow down after ten centimeters which can be helped by standing in a […]

FYI, F. L. I. Is Knee High

How high the couch? Inverting safely Anisa asked, “Can anyone guide me about Forward-leaning inversion? What should be the height of the couch from which we are going to lean downwards.” The answer is within… Or, rather on you? It’s the height of your knee. Since women come in different heights, I’d suggest you see […]

Teach the Breech Review of Day 2

Day 2 of Teach the Breech was just as exciting as Day 1   Dr. Anke Reitter shared her new pelvic measurement research which she brings to us in September in St. Paul, MN. Where is the pelvis larger when moms crouch? Several stations with manikins and dolls allowed for hands on practice.   Dutch […]

Teach the Breech Review of Day 1

The Netherland’s…. for decades the natural birth hub which, for the world,  equated best practice with Holland. But today Dutch homebirth rates are less than 1 in 5, and the right to breech vaginal birth is threatened to follow the rest of the world’s unthoughtful trend to extinction.    Countries rush to follow the campaign […]

Argentina Breech VBAC

It will be an honor to share my story and inspire others…. We live in Argentina. I would like to share my story to encourage women to try natural breech birth even after 2 C-sections. I will try to tell you our story with as many details as possible. We just had our 5th baby […]

Making Birth Balance Real with the Montessori Method

My strength is taking knowledge about body work and birth anatomy and turning it into simple and practice methods to help babies start and fulfill birth with the physical power of themselves and their mothers. In other words, I help parents and providers know what to do when to return labor to a normal progression. […]

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