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Breech Updates

The Midwives Alliance conference offered two wonderful presentations on breech. First, Midwife Abby Kinne of Ohio (right, helping a student) taught a day long class emphasizing no-touch but helping midwives get hands-on skills with a wonderful womb-anikin from Australia called Sophie and her Mum. Thanks to Candace Robinson for the pictures. I couldn’t sit back! […]

Email If You Have Questions

Some of you post your question on my Inversion blog and I missed someone’ s post until after her due date. Please email me instead Gail @ Spinning Babies Dot Com. Fix the address according to the address need. Come visit the blog. Spinning Babies Blog. www.spinningbabies.com

Organic Birth Movie

Congratulations, Debra Pascali-Bonaro on Going Green Angie and I will be selling Organic Birth at the LAMAZE ICEA CONFERENCE in Milwaukee, WI this coming weekend! Our Spinning Babies exhibit will offer both Organic Birth, 57 minutes, $19.99 and Orgasmic Birth, 72 minutes, $29.99 at this special conference pricing. ORGANIC BIRTH is a tighter, 52-minute updated […]

Blasting Oxytocin at a Baby’s Brain Desensitizes the Brain to Love

Midwifery Today publishes the answer: Questioning Oxytocin Dr. Odent, a leading visionary and leading voice in normal voice, “The most common medical intervention is undoubtedly the use of drips of synthetic oxytocin. … the rates of labor inductions are very high in many countries and, in practice, labor induction implies hours of intravenous drip. “One […]

Breech Elephant Born

Elephants also have a doula with them during birth. A smart zookeeper knows this. A breech baby elephant was born with the help of doula-elephant Num-Oi in the Melbourne, AUS zoo. I remember hearing about and watching Raja’s birth in the St. Louis zoo some years ago. His mother was in a long labor until […]

Illinois Tyranny Again

Illinois may be the most dangerous place for a baby to be born at home. State agents, in this case social workers, assume their views supersede parent rights when the doctors and hospital social workers are upset about birth choices. Here’s an attachment parenting view by Alicia Bayer, Mankato writer: Baby born via homebirth taken […]

Optimal Fetal Positioning Gaining Popularity

birth is in bloom.: on optimal fetal positioning.: “A woman I work with asked me yesterday what I know about fetal positioning. She is 38 weeks pregnant. I palpated her belly, but had to admit…” More doulas and midwives are posting more on optimal fetal positioning And mothers, too! Here’s one after my own heart! […]

The Wax Melted – Home Birth Is Safe

The British Medical Journalexposes the Wax et. al. Meta-Analysiswhich wrongly claimedthat there were more deathsat homebirthsand wrongly concluded that “the triple infant mortality” was due to the fewer interventions happeningat homebirth. Betty-Anne Daviss, Co-author of BMJ’s report involving homebirths, says, …the Wax et al. publication was bad academia, go to www.understandingbirthbetter.com There are more and […]

Spinning Babies on the Net

Its fun to come across references to SpinningBabies.com so I thought I’d share one with you. The links are from google… You spin me right round baby right round… – Hackney Birth Doula If you’ve got a little tinker in your tummy who isn’t responding to your daily cries of, ‘for Pete’s sake turn round’, […]

BellyraMa and Belly Painting

BellyraMA was glorious! 200 yoga mamas, pregnant and new, dads, doulas – and me! Painting bellies along the lake was bliss. The video is too small. “Throughout the day I have received such positive energy from people reacting to your painting – the energy flowing through me right now is incredible! I feel so grateful… […]

And so She Did!

I got to attend another little breechling yesterday as a doula with our beloved Dr. Denny. What a strong mama! Oh, my. She and her husband live in rural WI and at 38 weeks when her local OB told her that her baby was breech and he was scheduling a cesarean, she just knew that […]

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