Cesarean Rate
Would you think twice if your hospital’s cesarean rate was higher than the hospital down the street or in the next city? Check out https://www.cesareanrates.com How do we know before birth if our hospital cesarean rates even matter to OUR birth? My friend Adrienne (meet Adrienne Caldwell) told me how she perceived her birth preparations before […]
Orgasmic Italy with Debra Pascali-Bonaro
Agerola is in another world and time far above the tourist speckled Almalfi Coast. How many of us have ever wanted to be in a time machine to a simpler, kinder kind of life? Exploring Agerola, Italy within the magic of a womens’ retreat offers the kind of time travel any woman would love. […]
Rebuilding Spinning Babies – Gulp – as a Business
Can you build a business that is a decade old? 2002, Spinning Babies arrived on the internet. Spinning Babies is a childbirth preparation to ease birth through baby’s position in the womb. I wanted to share this unique approach with expectant parents and their providers around the world, yet I wasn’t aware of the importance […]
Science and Sensibility Blog
Lamaze International has a highly respected blog, Science and Sensibility, on which Sharon Muza, one spunky Lamaze contributor, has just posted Spinning Babies Blog as one of her six favorite blogs for Childbirth Educators. Ok, Sharon. I see what you are up to. Intuitively, you somehow perceived me thinking, gosh, I have to attend to […]
VBAC with an Android Pelvis?
“Help me! I’m recently diagnosed with an android pelvis and have had 2 cesareans. Now I’m desperate for a VBAC for this third baby,” was the comment on pelvic shape elsewhere in this blog. My response? Women with Android shaped pelvises, heart shaped or triangular shaped brims, and smaller outlets can give birth vaginally, too. […]
Easier ECV?
A US research study, by Carvalho et al, determined that using neuraxial anesthesia during External Cephalic Version (ECV) increases the rate of success from 38% to approximately 60%. By making the uterus more lax and flexible the doctor is able to manipulate the baby’s position with more ease. Some gentle and skilled doctors I know […]
Help! I Want to Avoid Induction
A woman wrote in seeking advice on how to avoid induction at 41 weeks pregnant. Hello Gail, I appreciate that you probably receive many emails and completely understand that you do not have the time to respond directly to everybody. Even if you don’t get the chance to respond I would like to thank you […]
Labor Isn’t Starting or Starts and Stops?
Baby is engaged – dipped into pelvis To begin, we have to help the baby into the pelvis to get effective contractions: https://www.spinningbabies.com/more-info/for-pregnancy/38-weeks-is-baby-engaged-yet (info) https://www.spinningbabies.com/more-info/in-labor/helping-baby-engage-in-labor (what to do) For everyone in a leisurely start of labor: https://www.spinningbabies.com/more-info/in-labor/what-to-do-first-and-second-in-labor Perhaps quite useful: https://www.spinningbabies.com/more-info/in-labor/the-long-labor If you feel little kicks and wiggles in front: https://www.spinningbabies.com/more-info/in-labor/for-a-posterior-labor Sifting with rebozo, […]
Cut, Stapled, and Mended – Gail’s Review
Dear Roanna, I’m three-fourths way through your book. I’ve laughed out loud so many times at your brilliant descriptions of small business, family bed, nursing, alternative healing, and more. Your descriptions of your birth journey astonishes me again and again, not in that you are concise and insightful about the trauma and challenges you went […]
Deb Lawrence’s Dip the Hip Circles Myofascial Release
Deb Lawrence, President of the Informed Beginnings certifying cooperative for Childbirth Educators introduces a technique she’s developed to open tight hips and pelvic muscles in labor or late pregnancy. Kate Andrews took a video and sent it to me to share. (This video is no longer available) Deb says this technique is moving baby’s head, […]
Flipping Good News
There have been several emails and calls about breech babies that have flipped. And a few born vaginally breech. Jenny Varela shares her daughter’s flipping success in her blog, Heavenly Treasure. Jenny visited my site www.SpinningBabies.com at the suggestion of her midwife Sheila Simms Watson, CPM, LM, Owner and Founder of Spirit of Life Birth Center in […]
The Evidence Base
When I speak in Academia I’m asked if my approach is evidence based. Its funny because first I’m invited. The nurses, like a nurse named Nancy, tell me how excited they are that I’m coming. They share their goals for integrating the approach into the hospital and share their dreams of spreading the solutions to […]
