Birth Detective: Why Didn’t My OP Baby Come Down? Part 3
This is Part 3, Read Part 1 to start from the Beginning, Read Part 2. Jessica processes her birth “Hi Gail, “I know I was at 0 station for sure. I will request my birth records as well to make sure. I have joined my local chapter of ICAN and have already found tremendous […]
Birth Detective: Why Didn’t My OP Baby Come Down? Part 2 of 3
This is part 2 of 3, Read Part 1 Jessica wrote back, “Hi Gail! Thank you SO much for responding.Your time and reply mean so much to me especially as I have been feeling down and out because I felt like “I wish I would have known he was OP etc. and I wish I would […]
Birth Detective: Why Didn’t My OP Baby Come Down? Part 1 of 3
Posterior presentation alone will not predict the course of labor. Posterior presenting babies can come within 3, 5, 24-hours, though some posterior labors take 36 hours or longer labors. Add tight or short muscles, or a small pelvic outlet, and delays and interventions increase. Spinning Babies take on the 3 Ps (Power, Passage, and Passenger) […]
Three P’s in a Pod
Especially the invention of artificial Pitocin birth providers have increasingly seen labor progress as a result of an opening cervix. After all, if we have a hammer, every thing looks like a nail. If we have a long labor, everything seems to be about the cervix not opening fast enough. The focus of labor progress […]
The 5 Steps to Birth Happiness
We all get emails promising the 5 steps to financial wellbeing or life’s little happiness habits. Let’s try finding 5 steps to birth happiness and see how we do. The house is quiet; the rhythm of your baby’s sucking lulls you into a reflective mood. (Finally, after 8 weeks you can feed your first baby […]
My Friend Willma’s Third Homebirth
Thanks for sharing, Willma! I loved being a moment of celebration early in your journey. Your baby is strong and as gorgeous as your other children! The following pictures are of our Belly Painting in England last June (2014). I wish you great love and every prosperity in family, joy, and service! Gail adding Willma’s […]
The Fantastic Four
There are four mutually supportive “Body Balance” techniques that a pregnant person and their trusted support person or provider can do to prepare for a gentler birth. In the new Spinning Babies’ Parent Class each technique is thoroughly demonstrated with a pregnant person and their support person. Here is the Fantastic Four: 1. The Jiggle […]
When the Doctor Says “No.”
“I am a doula to a mom with Mo/Di twins. I recommended SpinningBabies to her since her wee ones are transverse right now. She spoke with her Dr. who said to avoid the Spinning Babies exercises stating they were not safe for her type of twins. I would like to know your opinions and thoughts […]
Incarcerated Uterus
Her uterus was retroflexed (aimed backwards). During the first trimester of pregnancy her womb, still tipped back, grew into the curved space in front of the sacrum and tailbone under the sacral promontory. The uterus is not up in the abdomen at all! See a picture at Wikipedia Once upon a time, a doctor wrote […]
Father Faruk Protects His Twins Natural Birth
Midwife Lina Duncan is a Global Midwifery Council friend living and serving birthing families in India. She helped Faruk and his wife find the resources to help their full term twins get head down on a recent Spinning Babies adventure. Here are Faruk’s own words: …Me and my wife, Yasmin, went for sonography. We were all […]
Breech Then and Now
Thirty one years ago I caught my friend’s breech baby in Omaha, Nebraska. I was thinking of this Monday with a group of midwives and doulas at the lovely Mommy Fitness Omaha with Julie Summers and Kelly Langfeldt of Five Stones Massage and Birth Services. Kelly invited me down to present a Spinning Babies Workshop […]
Why Won’t This Labor Start Properly?
This post discusses onset of labor. A woman is commonly considered in labor when her cervix is progressively opening and continuing to open. Stages of labor are the first stage of cervical dilation, the second stage of “pushing” or until the actual birth of the baby, and third stage which begins after the baby is […]
