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Holding Space for Creative Coping

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We “hold space.” What does that phrase mean? We hold space when we match our body and our intent to another person’s creative growth during a physical event. I’m using the word “creative” to dehttps://www.spinningbabies.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/sample3-1.png the vulnerable moment when strength arises from awakening. We keep a vision of who they are so they can rely […]

Sacral Mobility

Spinning Babies When the sacrum bulges out, we know it's mobile. This happens in very late labor, however. A skilled bodyworker can assess the sacrum through joint alignment and craniosacral and fasical pulses. For a deeper dive than this, folks, please "google" those phrases.

Mobility allows function. The sacrum is the door of birth. A mobile sacrum allows the door to open. The sacrum is a five bone set that hangs as seemingly one bone from the ilium (hips). The big round hip bone is joined to the triangular sacrum by the sacroiliac (SI) joints. Supporting the range of […]

Fear of Childbirth Pain

Rebozo Manteada

Fear of childbirth pain can be an inhibitor to experiencing one’s own body in the process, even if there is curiosity about the experience of childbirth. We’ve talked before, on the blog, about the fear of pain being a reason birth givers may not explore choices in natural birth. Perception of Childbirth Pain The perception […]

October 2018 – Monthly Update

Spinning Babies This month's birth stories come from Linda Middlekauff, provisional Parent Educator. Linda is teaching her classes during her provisional period on route to becoming a Certified Parent Educator after attending our Spinning Babies® Certified Parent Educator Training this past April in St. Paul, MN.

Intro Dear Community, It is autumn and the chlorophyll levels are coming down in the boreal forests of around me. Yellows are appearing. My mind easily floats back to the waterfalls of Brazil, where we just have just returned from our Spinning Babies 2018 World Confluence “SIAParto + Spinning Babies: Active Patience.” Fun developments! The […]

Checking In and Checking Up

Gail Tully of Spinning Babies teaching

Providers! We offer a new paradigm for your birth practice. We want to check in with you! Please check out this self-guided check up and see how our Spinning Babies® paradigm is working and where you might add to your satisfaction by using our approach. Check Up Do you feel your use of Spinning Babies® […]

Jiggle and Stretch Protocols

Ischial Tuberosity

A pregnant woman, first baby, came to model Daily Essentials and The Three Sisters of Balance with us at a Spinning Babies® Workshop. She was in her fourth day of prodromal labor. Contractions without progress, yet also with little sleep. Bravely, she ventured to the workshop in the biggest city in Brazil. Calf stretches, squatting, […]

Supporting Innate Knowledge

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Physiology Before Force℠ can be an approach to prenatal care; just as it is the Spinning Babies® approach to labor and birth. Dr. Dennis Hartung, OB, greets each new pregnant person with the question, “How may I help you?” and then truly listens. This simple act invites his clients to consider their own needs and […]

September 2018 – Monthly Update

Spinning Babies Birth positions open and close the pelvis. Wait, you might ask, What do you mean close the pelvis? Glad you asked! The pelvis has a top entrance and a bottom exit of the open tunnel that baby wiggles through. Squatting, for instance, opens the pelvis a centimeter or more. But not necessarily at the top and the bottom together. Squatting typically opens the bottom. But most long labors are because baby is waiting up at the top.

Dear Members, Recently, I have gone looking for additional business coaching in the area of certification programs. We are seeking improvements in how we serve our rapidly growing community. Explaining our work to a potential mentor inspired me to share a similar description in this September monthly update. A Bird’s Eye View of Spinning Babies®: […]

Right Obliquity

Spinning Babies There is little mention of right obliquity in current literature. Jean Sutton brought awareness of right obliquity to popular attention in the late 1990s through her book with Pauline Scott, Understanding and Teaching Optimal Foetal Positioning (New Zealand). Old text mentioned Right Obliquity as in this example below, along with solutions that have since been researched with limited success.

Right obliquity refers to a normal shape of the human uterus. With obliquity, or angling, to the right we see a steeper side to the uterus on the right and a more round side on the left. A baby lying along the right side of the uterus would then have a straighter back. A baby […]

Fetal Engagement from the Right

ROT pelvic floor Transverse arrest midpelvis

Last week I mentioned the effect on babies from entering into the pelvis from the right side. Some babies take longer to engage and some need to rotate before they can engage. This seems to have to do with head circumference and whether baby can slip into the pelvis or is waiting above the symphysis, unable […]

VBAC Detective Response

VBAC Belly Mapping

Last week, a woman seeking vaginal birth after a previous cesarean (VBAC) asked whether to share Spinning Babies® Parent Class video with her doula. She said, “I am concerned that while I am doing everything I can to implement Spinning Babies knowledge and get the baby properly positioned, that my birth attendants will not be able […]

Birth Positions – Monthly Update

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Birth Positions – Which One Does What? Spinning Babies® has introduced a new way of choosing birth positions to a wider reach of pregnant parents and the birth care providers who serve them. All-fours (hands-and-knees, or knee-elbow as shown below) has been a favorite position in the natural birth world. Today German researchers include an all-fours […]

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