Solutions for Dystocia in the Levels of the Pelvis
Spinning Babies® offers the world’s first complete system of matching birth positions and labor progress techniques to the five levels of the pelvis. We simplify the path to learning by focusing on three levels: the inlet, mid-pelvis, and outlet.* Spinning Babies® Three Levels Solutions℠ helps you resolve birth dystocia by understanding where baby is stalled […]
Increasing Likelihood of Posterior Rotation
What makes a baby with an occiput posterior fetal position at delivery more likely to be born vaginally, and what are predictive factors of anterior rotation during labor? A French team looked at 439 occiput posterior labors and what may favor rotation to the anterior position. Long arc rotation from posterior to anterior was seen […]
Supporting Your Birth Partner – Monthly Update
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® as an Option to Labor Solutions – Monthly Update
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 […]
Dip the Hip – Monthly Update
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 […]
Communicating the Body Sense
Observing an Invitation to Act Let us approach the labor with a calm, quiet, observation. We observe the response to contractions. When observing signs of a disconnection to labor because of pain or low morale or a struggles to self regulate as an invitation to act, we may introduce a gentle suggestion for a technique. There […]
Too Tired to Try Spinning Babies?
“I am a doula and need your help. Very often by the time my women get into hospital they are too tired to cooperate and try to do Spinning Babies exercises. What do you suggest in this scenario?” Dear Doula, Let’s explore the use of Spinning Babies® as a physiological approach to relationships with parents […]
When Not to Use Spinning Babies® Techniques
You can always “use” the concepts taught on this website. Spinning Babies® as an approach for comfort in pregnancy and ease in birth can be a way of seeing what is going on. We can take our approach for noticing fetal position as a clue to choose body balance and labor easing activities. When someone […]
Bums Up
Flip a Breech? What we teach here at Spinning Babies® is a gentle, body balancing approach. We begin with the principles of Spinning Babies; Balance before Gravity and Movement. For pregnancy self-care or things to do at home, we include five main techniques to turn a breech baby head down. These are all on our […]
Stretching Types
I’m often finding myself self-tightening when I hear my colleague say “stretch the ligament.” But my reaction is not logical. Just five minutes before I’ve said the same thing: Stretch! So why the visceral reaction to the word stretch? While saying it, I know I’m describing a physio-neurological response that will lengthen the muscle fibers […]
Pain Pattern Before Engagement – Monthly Update
Pain Pattern Before Engagement When labor is active – contractions are strong and frequent – but baby remains high, check to see if baby remains high in the pelvis or is yet above the pelvis. At -3 Station, baby’s head is right at the entrance to the pelvis, the inlet. The provider typically finds this […]
Cesarean Rates Call for Beyond Border Solutions
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecology and other nations’ leading birth organizations and the social organizations who seek to guide their practice with statistical and ethical considerations are working more collaboratively now to reduce the uncontrollable cesarean section. A recent review shows “cesarean section rates increased from 22.8% to 42.2% in Latin American and the […]