Referring to Spinning Babies
Chiropractors and Midwives, doulas and childbirth educators, Hypnobirthers and Mothering.com; it seems like Spinning Babies is getting referrals from all over the birthing world. What makes Spinning Babies useful? What would you like to see more of? Let’s dialogue. Join the Spinning Babies Facebook group. Or, comment here. Here’s today’s fun email: “thank you for […]
Palpating today
Clare Welter and I were invited to palpate (feel with our hands) this Mama’s baby both yesterday and today. Clare took these photos today. Yesterday the baby was breech. I asked to attend the Ultrasound today and if I could palpate again, before the ultrasound, to draw a picture of what position the baby seemed […]
Midwives and Spinning Babies
For those of us who learned midwifery before the late 90s, before the fusion of midwifery education with the homebirth world, before doulas and Penny Simkin’s physical therapy techniques came to the aid of birthing women, the idea of midwife-directed techniques for labor progress seemed out of step with homebirth. Concern about a baby’s position […]
Home Birth Surge
New York Times Home and Garden section featured an article on homebirth- Bringing Baby Home. “…in 2006 home births accounted for only one-half of 1 percent of the city’s 125,506 reported births. But local midwives say they have been swamped with calls and requests in recent months, in some cases increasing their workload from two, […]
Sign the premmie petition!
The March of Dimes notes a sharp rise in what they call Late Prematurity. Babies who are almost term, but not quite. They attribute this, in large part, to the increase in inductions in the US. One of their points on this petition is 3. We call on hospitals and health care professionals to voluntarily […]
Duluth is so BOLD
Duluth’s Northland Birth Network presented an amazing trio of BOLD performances this past weekend. Actually, four performances; the first was a private showing for medical professionals. How brilliant is that? Birth on Labor Day (BOLD) has been a September statement for several years. Playright Karen Brody wrote the dynamic dialogue after interviewing 100 women about […]
My step son’s UCDavis research on Breast Milk
What an amazing journey for this young man. My husband Vic’s son, John, has been studying breast milk for a few years now. The team he works with just published. In the article photo, you can see John in the back, to your left, bearded in the dark jacket- another handsome Froehlich man. He is […]
Orgasmic Birth
The Minnesota screening of Debra Pascali-Bonaro’s documentary, Orgasmic Birth; The best kept secret, was a delightful success. The Riverview Theater, last Thursday, September 25th, felt between a celebration and a family reunion. So many new families greeting their midwives and doulas with hugs and smiles. Debra was delighted with the turn out. She said it […]
AMA against homebirth, DONA for choice in birth
From the US News and World Report opinion page Support for Home Births You covered Ricki Lake’s controversial documentary about homebirths which instigated a growing battle between the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), the American Medical Association (AMA), midwives, and patients [“Ricki Lake Fires Back in Debate on Home Birth,” “On Women,” usnews.com]. […]
Gail writes to Dr. Phil about his request for homebirth horror stories
Dear Producers and Doctor Phil, I’ve watched your show with gratitude from my mother’s hospital bed, appreciating the healthy living concepts shared and in doing so, giving us a forum … You are seeking homebirth controversy. Why? You are about to examine two cultures and seeming to be willing to pit them against each other. […]
Pressure to have ultrasounds and induction
This is my letter to a friend whose obstetrician recommends weekly ultrasounds to see if her womb is becoming a hostile place for her baby. Yes, that phrase was used by a medical person to get her compliance. “I was thinking more that it is the very serial ultrasound that is making the “womb a […]
Vertical Birth
Here is the Vertical Birth video recommended by Debra Pascali-Bonaro from her Orgasmic Birth blog. Make sure you read Mariana’s blog. Mariana Bazo was the photographer for Vertical Birth. Wow. Come visit the blog. Spinning Babies Blog. www.spinningbabies.com
