Supporting Your Birth Partner – Monthly Update

Australia Picture from Gold Coast Kelly Padrao West

Halfway through pregnancy, 20 weeks, was a moment of satisfaction in my two pregnancies. I also looked eagerly toward the seventh month when an early birth could mean survival without serious risk of problems due to prematurity. We have many projects gestating in Spinning Babies® that are feeling suddenly “viable!” Most will emerge by the […]

Spinning Babies® Approach to Reduce Induction Interventions

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After observing induction and common interventions, researchers reported their findings in Birth, a journal focused on the care of childbearing women, infants, and families. The article, called “Associations among cervical dilatation at admission, intrapartum care, and birth mode in low-risk, nulliparous women,” found that early labor admissions were related to a higher likelihood of finishing […]

Spinning Babies® as an Option to Labor Solutions – Monthly Update

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The new Spinning Babies® knowledge expands what we know about childbirth. We can be surprised there is so much more than taught in university. Midwives often exclaim, “Why didn’t I learn this in school?” Modern education includes so much technology. Spinning Babies keeps physiological birth relevant to the provider. This becomes more important in low-resource […]

Are Cesareans for Breech Worth the Cost in Maternal Death?

Spinning Babies Andrew Kotaska, MD, of Canada is concerned that "women have been coerced, both overtly and covertly, into having cesarean sections" for birth of their breech babies. Research warns doctors to expand options for vaginal breech birth. Parents and providers want to protect the baby but we must also protect the birth giver. Better skills in breech birth for term or late preterm babies are being met by doctors like Andrew Kotaska, and Anke Reitter and Frank Louwen of Germany.

In my early days of attending breech births, I met a family I will forever be honored to have met. Their very experienced midwife helped them with a late in life baby and now they were having a second late in life baby to add to a large family. Because the baby was breech, they […]

Engaging Baby: Birth story from Canada

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When doctors, doulas, midwives, and nurses learn Spinning Babies®, they get excited. The stories of the results are amazing – even to me after 20+ years of my approach, Spinning Babies®! Learn our principles so you can make birth choices with your inner wisdom awakened. Birth Tip: Engaging Baby When contractions come and go or […]

Breech Emergency of Interlocked Heads

Spinning Babies An early lesson on twin birth when first studying midwifery or obstetrics is to not risk the scenario of locked twin heads. Heads blocking the descent of birth might occur if the first twin is breech and the second twin is head down. The first twin begins to be born and bumps up against the second twins head. The second twin’s head then blocks the first twin’s head from entering the pelvis. Or both heads may be at the top of the pelvis in a way the first twin can come down any further.   Locked Twins Once I was called to palpate a first-time mother having breech twins. By the appointment time, the higher twin had flipped to head down while the first, or lower, twin remained breech. The mother wanted to give birth vaginally and to help myself understand the risks, I called upon the expertise of Diane Goslin who has been a midwife for hundreds of sets of twins and breeches. She said she herself has never seen a case of locked heads, though she herself consulted with local doctors about this potential, none of them had seen a case in decades of vaginal twins in their large area of Amish communities and the high vaginal twin birth rates. Diane proposed that if the second twin's amniotic sac remained full of water that the potential of heads held together is unlikely. During the labor of the breech twins I was called to palpate, an ultrasound was done to verify the first baby was breech. The image was misread and along came two feet. The first twin was born breech but not without some unrelated events to the fact of being a twin. I've written about this birth in Midwifery Today magazine. But does the event of locked twins actually exist? Along comes Dr. Stuart Fischbein, a homebirth physician in Southern California attending breech births. He dehttps://www.spinningbabies.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/sample3-1.pngs such a rare case occurring under his watch. With deft hands, he unlocks the heads and the birth is completed. Be sure to read the amazing story in his published case study. I LOVE the illustration and photo. We see in the photo that the baby is higher than what we see in the case of breech shoulder girdle dystocia. This is very very helpful! Thank you, Stuart Fischbein, for advancing the safety of breech birth and reducing the reasons that advanced practitioners with breech skills would resist helping some cases of breech-cephalic twin birth! The rarity of locked twins is not equal to surety of locked twins. Expectation of a rare event is not the best first decision maker. But physiological management must include readiness for a rare event. In other words, I'm challenging the decision to avoid first twin breech births and encouraging readiness for the rare event while allowing the opportunity for a physiological birth. Of course, the parents and providers need resources to ready themselves.  Birth teaches us not to assume anything.   Enjoy this post? You also might like: Can Breech Twins Be Helped to Flip Head Down? Happy Breech-Cephalic Twin Birth Twins Father Faruk Protects His Twins Natural Birth Upcoming Workshops

An early lesson on twin birth when first studying midwifery or obstetrics is to not risk the scenario of locked twin heads. Heads blocking the descent of birth might occur if the first twin is breech and the second twin is head down. The first twin begins to be born and bumps up against the […]

Side-lying Release Effects in Labor

Tammy Ryan showing Sidelying Release

Side-lying Release is the technique of an obstetrician which was formalized by Dr. Carol Phillips, DC so that others could replicate the beneficial slow stretch.   Learn the Side-lying Release How to do the Side-lying Release is on our website. Learn the SLR (and our 3 other favorite myofascial release techniques for pregnancy and birth) directly from […]

Maternal Mortality

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Four Restorative Techniques

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While developing more finesse for our Spinning Babies® Parent Class, a delightful email arrives praising the benefit one woman received from the windmill exercise. This exercise is named after the lifting and rotating of our arms to achieve a nice stretch in our muscles and fascia between our lungs and ribs. Windmills adds a gentle stretch […]

Side-lying Release in a Case of Pre-Eclampsia

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Spinning Babies® enthusiast Maíra Libertad, prominent midwife and midwife educator (and now Spinning Babies® Approved Trainer) in Rio de Janeiro just received a very beautiful story of Side-lying Release (SLR) success and felt that you would like to know! An OBGYN was taking care of the woman and told her this story in her words. […]

2020 World Confluence in Sunshine Coast, Australia

Spinning Babies 2020 World Confluence October 16-18, 2020 Join us in Caloundra, on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia for a confluence of birth and body work through the view of Spinning Babies® The Spinning Babies approach offers enrichment to all settings and practice values.Presentations by Spinning Babies® Approved Trainers and Gail Tully as well […]

Dip the Hip – Monthly Update

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Message from our Founder Gail here. Finding out that January is International Creativity Month just makes me smile. The creativity of the birth giver in labor is something to study. Here is where Spinning Babies® emerged. I observed women giving birth, felt their power, and noticed their sense of stuckness during births. From that, I […]

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