Twins and Spinning Babies
For optimal fetal positioning with twins, use the same 3 Principles of Spinning Babies that you use for a single baby. Manual cephalic version (when the doctor or midwife manipulates the baby into a head down position) is too risky for most twin breeches. Bring your body into balance to allow the babies to wiggle […]
What should I do to help my breech baby turn?
Dear Gail, I was wondering what yoga position is good to help turn a baby. I have tried laying on a board upside down and my lower back gets really soar. I went to the chiropractor today and she is going to see me [again]. I am wondering what else I can do to turn […]
Chance to promote midwifery
Senator Berglin’s Birth Center Bill if passed, would provide the most amazing opportunity to promote midwifery that this nation has ever experienced. While physicians can certainly establish and/or work at birth centers, the birth center is commonly associated with midwifery care. We have about 300 midwives of both CNM and CPM credentials. About 50 of […]
Competition among birth places
The new Birth Center Bill is gaining grumpy support. Grumpy, because though hospital birth practitioners support Senator Berglin’s bill there is a lot of behind scenes gossip that having birth centers will take the patients from area hospitals. Hospitals are concerned about loss of income. Even hospitals compete with each other as noted in this […]
Reducing the Cesarean Rate
One of the ways to reduce the Cesarean rate is with the Pelvic Floor Release. The pelvic floor is a strong bowl of muscles that has a front-to-back opening for the baby to go through. A crooked or tight pelvic floor lengthens the birth, increases OP position and Asynclitism (tipped head). See the new article […]
KFAI Radio today
Support our birth activists on International Womens’ Day! KFAI, 90.3 Minneapolis 11 am Cesarean Voices (Twin Cities Chapter of ICAN) 11:30 Midwives and Doulas (with Akhmiri Sekhr-Ra and Gail Tully and friends) Come visit the blog. Spinning Babies Blog. www.spinningbabies.com
Health System glitches, no insurance, no obstetrian…
Institute Sees More Americans Losing Insurance Click to read the entire article by Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) Feb 24 – More Americans will lose their health insurance as the economy weakens, health care becomes more expensive and fewer employers offer coverage, the U.S. Institute of Medicine said in a report Tuesday… An institute panel urged […]
Susan’s legislative update
Susan Lane for the MN Better Birth Coalition: “We have four bills, one almost done, one introduced but not heard and two in preparation. The one that passed the Senate today (SF 401) gives women in Minnesota hospitals the right to continuous doula from a certified doula of her choice; it’s expected to pass the […]
Thank you, Salma Hayek
When I was nursing my youngest, now 19, three of us breastfeeding mothers would trade off with our babies and toddlers for two hours of free time each week. Occasionally during that short time, if one of my friend’s babies was hungry I’d nurse them. They would do the same for my baby. Breastfeeding is […]
One more Pulsatilla try
Well, After 38 hours of labor, our 5th posterior baby within two weeks, was born OP. Starting at home was useful. Progress began to improve following ten abdominal lifts done while maintaining a pelvic tuck (flattening the lower back). Still, labor was so gradual and back pain returned. When homeopathics, herbs, water tub, and even […]
Posterior labors at home
Among the three Trillium midwives, Clare Welter, Emme Corbeil and myself, we had 4 posterior babies at the beginning of the labors last week. Yes, in one week. Each of these women took a deep dose of Pulsatilla. I’m not saying which dose, because I’m not prescribing here, I’m describing. Three of the women took […]
Why Gaskins Maneuver isn’t used in hospitals
Ina May Gaskin popularized a solution for stuck shoulders which she learned from traditional midwives. When a baby’s head is born but her shoulders are stuck inside, the mother is helped to flip over onto her hands and knees (if she is not already there). The act of the mother’s rotation often frees the shoulders. […]
