On November 5, 2025, Spinning Babies® hosted a virtual community call on Zoom with CEO Jennifer Walker, Approved Trainer Anna Maria Rossetti, and Midwife Tamara Aloi. This gathering brought together birth professionals from around the world to discuss a newly published article in the European Journal of Midwifery, one of the first peer-reviewed studies to […]
A Spinning Babies® Reflection on a Recent Conversation About Cesarean Birth On November 24th, The New York Times published an article, “These Hospitals Figured Out How to Slash C-Section Rates,” about the rising rate of cesarean births and highlighted the experience of a hospital in New York that has significantly lowered its surgery rate in […]
When babies rotate into an optimal position during labor, their descent through the pelvis may be smoother and more efficient. A new study published in the European Journal of Midwifery explored how the Spinning Babies® approach may help facilitate rotation from an occiput-posterior or occiput-transverse position to an anterior position. What the Study Looked At […]
We’re thrilled to share the release of The Belly Mapping® Method book: a joyful new resource from Spinning Babies® founder Gail Tully. For two decades, Gail has practiced and taught The Belly Mapping® Method, a gentle, hands-on way for parents to understand their baby’s position in the womb. Tested and proven accurate when compared with […]
The Belly Mapping® Method book, created by Spinning Babies® founder Gail Tully, is a joyful guide for both parents and professionals. The Belly Mapping® is a simple, hands-on process that helps expecting parents discover their baby’s position in the womb, while also creating opportunities for insightful and playful connection. For providers, it’s a parent-centered approach […]
Supporting the body’s natural design, from the inside out. At Spinning Babies®, we believe birth is not something to be managed, it’s something to be supported. We use the phrase physiological first birth to describe our approach: one that prioritizes the body’s innate ability to birth when given balance, space, and respect. So what does […]
To interpret by paradigm helps us to explain something that is not actually fully knowable by creating a story map to share an understanding with one another. We are drawn into any paradigm by social agreement first, being raised to think a certain way, or educated to, through school and also conversations. A paradigm is […]
There are complications that come up in pregnancy, and when a rare complication arises it is human nature to look to the unusual events or actions done. The unusual seems logically linked to the unusual, but what is unusual in our awareness may not be the only variable occurring. In the decade we’ve had the […]
Dana writes, “I feel like I am having to relearn what a good contraction pattern looks like. It seems like women who are using the Daily Essentials video are having an early pattern similar to what I would expect from a posterior baby. Short, intense, and close together. A couple times I’ve suggested we go […]
