Summer Yum, Good Eating in Pregnancy
Supporting your body to support your pregnancy involves nutrition, movement, and love. You can mix the order up how ever you like! (In this order, sooth your hunger, add balance and flexibility for your pregnancy comfort or ease of birth, and enjoy a cuddle.) SpinningBabies.com has lots of movement and balance ideas. I’m hoping your friends […]
Asynclitism Resolved in Brazil!
Asynclitism is when baby’s head is tipped as if listening. This is an issue in the midpelvis, after engagement. Often, the baby’s head is angled so that more of the head is trying to get through at one time. Also baby’s neck is not aligned with the uterine contraction. It seems that baby’s head is […]
Cesarean Awareness Month
Why Cesarean Awareness Month? Giving Birth With Confidence says, My Birth Matters. And while a cesarean may be the best choice for a particular birth, the cut mother may have mixed feelings and need understanding of both her gratitude for a life saving procedure and the grief of not finishing the birth on her own […]
Nurses, Key to Reducing the Cesarean Rate
In April we Celebrate Cesarean Awareness Month I want to give a shout out to Shakopee, Minnesota nurses for helping bring down the cesarean rate in their hospital! Melissa Rezny is a Labor and Delivery Nurse at St. Francis Medical Center in Shakopee, Minnesota, just 20 minutes away from my home. When St. Francis’ statistics came out […]
Springing into Perspective
Springing into perspective The late season snow, so necessary in our midwest drought, is gently melting into our soil. Thoughts of renewal frame the season change. Renewal comes in cycles in our lives as much as for the earth in the annual Spring. Renewal is by definition out of something gone old, even decayed or […]
Where OP Babies Get Stuck in Labor and What to Do
[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”3.22″][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”3.25″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”3.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”] Occiput Posterior Presentation The Occiput Posterior baby is head down with the back of baby’s head, or occiput, towards mom’s posterior, or back. The posterior positions are LOP, ROP, OP, and midwife Jean Sutton includes ROT due […]
Pregnancy and Labor Techniques
Hi, Spinning Babies, I am 39 week pregnant and been reading and doing Spinning Babies exercises on and off since 30 weeks as baby been on Right Occiput Lateral (Right Occiput Transverse in US) and Right Occiput Posterior for all pregnancy. I had him go transverse for a week and back down again. […]
New Website Goes up Tonight!
We’re so excited to announce that the new Spinning Babies website will be going up tonight. There might be some time while the old site is migrated over to the new one where you can’t access SpinningBabies.com. We’ve compiled a list here of important articles if you find yourself in need of some guidance while […]
In Labor Now? Here’s What to Do.
Are the following happening? Strong labor seems to start and stop, or surge and withdraw, for some hours to days Surges come on at any time Contractions may be long and irregular, but strong for hours and then fade away Pattern occurs with or without back labor An internal exam reveals that baby is still […]
Tammy Dreams of Reducing Obstructed Labor in Kenya
Obstructed Labor is when the mother is in labor, her body is working hard (sometimes until her uterus tires and contractions slow) and yet the baby isn’t able to come through the pelvis. Obstructed labor. In this example, baby’s hands tap at the fetoscope (stethoscope). In the doula world, a powerful phrase is the […]
Women Are Women Wherever We Birth
“Women are women wherever they are,” said Dawn Russell on Skype today. Dawn’s been nurturing and hosting Spinning Babies® for the past several years. Today, as 16″ of snow head her way, she is asking about my many travels since we sat together in her Brattleboro, Vermont office. Dawn’s business, MyArtisanWeb, was walking distance from […]
After the External Cepahlic Version
After a breech is turned head down by the doctor in a manual, external cephalic version some babies end up with limbs over their head or similar mix up. Here’s a suggestion, To help resolve a compound presentation or twist, it is up to the mother if she wants to do the balancing work. An […]
