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Find a Spinning Babies® Professional in our Directory

Our global community of birth professionals is dedicated to empowering parents and supporting physiological birth. Each professional listed here holds one or more Spinning Babies® credentials earned through specialized training, workshops, and continuing education. These programs help them deepen their skills, understand the body’s natural design for birth, and support families with compassion and confidence.

Use the filters below to explore professionals by their area of focus or by credential. Whether you’re looking for hands-on bodywork, childbirth education, or labor support, you can find trusted professionals trained in the Spinning Babies® approach.

Meet our Spinning Babies® Professionals

Certified Parent Educator

Childbirth educators and facilitators who teach parents how to use the Spinning Babies® approach for comfort and connection during pregnancy and birth.

Aware Practitioner

Hands-on practitioners such as bodyworkers, chiropractors, massage therapists, and others who apply Spinning Babies® principles through bodywork or physical support during pregnancy or birth.

Certified Birth Professional

Birth professionals such as nurses, midwives, physicians, and doulas who focus on providing care and support during labor and birth.

Marlene Höning

Spinning Babies® Certified Parent Educator

Marlene is a certified birth doula, licensed massage therapist, and Spinning Babies® Certified Parent Educator. Her genuine passion lies in supporting women (and their partners) throughout the beautiful journey of pregnancy, birth, and parenthood. Marlene cherishes the profound connections she forms with expectant parents, allowing her to share her knowledge and insights with warmth and empathy. As a licensed massage Read more...

Marlies Phielix

Spinning Babies® Certified Parent Educator

Marlies is an experienced birth doula since 2011 and a doulatrainer. She has been deepening her intuition and knowledge of the transition birthing women make. She likes to keep developing herself and likes working with women on a deeper level. She has used the Spinning Babies principles with her clients for many years now with beautiful outcomes. Marlies believes it Read more...

Marnellie Bishop

Spinning Babies® Certified Parent Educator

Marnellie Bishop (she/her) is a doula, educator, mentor, and systems strategist working at the intersection of birth, business, and justice. Through her private practice, Hānau Doula, LLC, most families connect with her for birth and postpartum doula support and childbirth education. She has supported over 500 families as a birth and postpartum doula and childbirth educator, helping parents approach birth Read more...

Martha Hill

Spinning Babies® Aware Practitioner

Martha Hill is a Registered Nurse and Certified Nurse Midwife with over 20 years experience supporting birthing parents. She currently works as a hospitalist midwife at Hackensack University Medical Center, an academic teaching hospital, and is excited to bring the Spinning Babies® approach to her practice. Read more...

Mary Bachko

Spinning Babies® Certified Birth Professional

I am Mary Bachko, owner of both the Colville Women’s Center and Birth Place and the Saturn Clinic. I have devoted my life to providing care to others. First, during my many years in the military, and then through hospitals and clinics across Washington state. I always wanted to be a country doctor and bring access to quality medical care Read more...

Mary Canisales

Spinning Babies® Certified Birth Professional

With nearly two decades of experience in massage therapy and over twelve years as a yoga instructor, I’ve built my career around helping people feel grounded, supported, and empowered in their bodies. I earned my bachelor’s degree in Public Health in 2011 and became a Registered Nurse in 2018, where my passion for maternal health truly found its home. My Read more...

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Mary Chao NCBTMB

Spinning Babies® Aware Practitioner

As a Spinning Babies® Aware Practitioner, I support families in cultivating balance, comfort, and physiological ease throughout pregnancy and birth. My work is rooted in the understanding that baby positioning is not about force — it is about creating space, alignment, and functional movement within the birthing body. With a background in bodywork and perinatal support, I am board certified Read more...

Mary Kalau

Spinning Babies® Certified Parent Educator

Since 1997, Mary has been attending births as a labor support doula in numerous hospitals, birth centers and homes in New York City, Sweden and throughout Switzerland. Mary believes that when mind, body and soul are in harmony, birth can be calm, peaceful and pleasurable! She has found that magic happens when combining the Spinning Babies® approach that brings balance Read more...

Marykate Bashaw

Spinning Babies® Certified Parent Educator

As a doula and educator working with higher-risk birthing clients, she believes that support and education are imperative to helping parents navigate the unanticipated forks in the road with agency and determination. MaryKate is a fierce advocate for informed choice in any birthing space, educating for all contingencies in birth while hoping you’ll never need them. And if her clients Read more...

Maureen Farrell

Spinning Babies® Aware Practitioner

Maureen Farrell is a Certified Professional Midwife, Certified Lactation Counselor, Certified Doula, and a Certified Family Herbalist. She owns and operates Highland Birth Support, a private practice in Elkins, WV which serves families during their childbearing year by providing holistic care and homebirth services. In the Highland region of West Virginia, Maureen aims to support families by providing midwifery care, Read more...

Max BurrusWebb

Spinning Babies® Aware Practitioner

Max (they/he) is a 2SLGBTQIA+ / LGBT/ Queer affirming birth doula who brings a unique perspective to the pregnancy and laboring experience. Their background in body work and physical therapy gives them a distinctive understanding of how to apply their skills as a doula to physiological birth. Max’s time in the medical field has taught them how to provide a Read more...

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Meaghan Staples

Spinning Babies® Aware Practitioner

My name is Meaghan Staples and as a Pelvic Physical Therapist, I am on a mission to help individuals reclaim their personal power during pregnancy and birth. After experiencing the limitations of the conventional healthcare system along with the frustration of my own prenatal and postpartum care, I decided to learn everything I could about pregnancy, birth, and postpartum recovery. Read more...