Amy’s Baby
“I just wanted to share with you that I was able to have a natural birth no complications no drugs. Thank you for bringing Spinning Babies® to the world! My first birth was posterior and ended in forceps and this recent birth was so healing for me. I feel so lucky to have met you, participated in your course and be able to share it with my patients.” – Amy Riedel
“I love Spinning Babies. It’s so empowering to be able to figure out what’s happening with your baby on your own. And when my youngest was not turning head down late in my pregnancy I felt so much better having something I could do to try and help her (and even better, it worked!).” – Olga Drozd
“My first introduction to Spinning Babies was also my own breech baby. Laying upside down on that ironing board seemed a bit crazy then, but I believe it (along with handstands in the pool!) did the job!” – Shanna Baker Switzer
“Hi Gail, my baby girl will be one in a few weeks, so naturally I am reflecting on her delivery. At about 30 weeks, my midwife said the baby was sunnyside up and recommended Spinning Babies. I incorporated the windmill, lunges and other exercises into my usual workout routine and started the forward-leaning inversion, psoas release, pelvic floor release and hip dip at home. I am a small person with naturally tight and misaligned hips and pregnancy is just terribly uncomfortable, but doing the above exercises offered tremendous relief, helped my body relax in the evenings so I could get better sleep and helped align the baby for birth. My labor and delivery was fast- 3.5 hours (she’s my second baby)- and she was face down! I’m pretty sure these exercises helped. I just directed 2 friends to your site as they are coming up on their D days [due dates]. I hope everything here helps them as it did me!” –Susanna Kantor, happy activist of the Spinning Babies approach to balancing her birth anatomy
“I want to personally thank you for the Spinningbabies program, it has helped me through two separate labors and greatly reduced my labor time over each. My 3rd baby was breech at 36 weeks and using your methods couples with chiropractic work and moxibustion my baby was head down a week later. I attribute that directly to spinning babies. Thank you.“ — Deborah Hawkins
“We welcomed our Spinning Babies baby this week. I had two hours of active labor – which I certainly believe happened because all of my muscles and ligaments were able to work together flawlessly! He was born at a local birthing center, assisted by wonderful midwives but caught by me! He quite literally “spun” out into the jacuzzi!” — Amber Rothermel, mother
“I am a Mother of 10 children and I’ve been finally writing down all of their birth stories. I’ve got the first 5 written and am working on #6 right now. I pulled out the midwife’s notes for this birth and noticed that well into labor she noted the baby had a ROP-T position, so I started researching this and found the Spinning Babies site. As I read through article after article, I finally had the answers to so many questions I’d had for years. Like, why does my water break first and no cx [contractions] for hours? Why do I carry so small? Why do my babies ALWAYS lay on my right side? I have scoliosis, but no caregiver I’ve ever had identified that with the way my babies lie {presentation, position, angle]. Also, labor is always in my back and nowhere else. I’m used to it, but I have wondered why it was that way every time. Out of my 10 babies at least 3 were born posterior, the others rotated in labor (I’ve never been sectioned). But I go through labor with them in the ROP position. Apparently my pelvis is roomy enough to accommodate this. I’ve spent years thinking that I was broken, the water breaking first sets the clock ticking and makes me feel like a failure or that my body has betrayed me. I wanted to believe that my body knew what it was doing, but until last night I had no confidence in this. Thank you SO much for all of the wonderful information that you have online.” — Paris G.
“I just wanted to thank you for all the wonderful information on your website. I am 31 weeks with baby #2 and discovered she was in the frank breech position. I did just three 30-second inversions, and have been playing a lullaby CD for 30 minutes once daily for 3 days, so far. Today’s sonogram revealed she is now head down. I was concerned because I also have 3 fibroids, so far they did not hinder her change of position.” –Amanda K. from Lake Mary, Florida
“One thing I really appreciate about your site is that you speak with an attitude that allows for all birth outcomes. I have to say, part of my emotional healing has been to deal with some of the more radical birth empowerment literature that promises women that any and all of us can have vaginal births if we simply try hard enough. I believe that sometimes, in our quest to lower the shockingly high c-section rate, we seem to want to behave as though no c-sections are necessary. And that is simply not true. In many cases, they are the only option left when everything else has failed. I feel like your site leaves room for this possibility, and I really appreciate that.” — AJ, Mother, after a necessary cesarean
“Thank you, Gail Tully. You helped me visualize the baby and what to do for a beautiful VBAC birth! ” – Marion Seeley-Kreisman, Doula
“… the pregnant momma that participated in your first Spinning Babies Workshop in Rochester -… I was her doula – says to tell you ‘hi’ and ‘thank you’. She had the loveliest of flowing homebirth VBACs. It was very healing, and just what she needed.” –Adriana Lozada – Birthful.com, The Birthful Podcast: talking to maternity pros to inform your intuition
“Thanks to the Spinning Websites, I was able to avoid Inversion at the hospital this morning! I’m 39 weeks and my baby was transverse (after having been heads down for weeks!). I did the inversion exercise (head stand with knees on couch) 4 times yesterday and LI and behold when I got to the hospital today, she was heads down! Thank you, thank you!” — Tricia Reilly Miller, San Francisco
“I’m happy to report that I arrived for my ECV this morning at 7 am and at about 8:10 just before my IV block was placed “just in case” we discovered baby is head down! Thank you again for your support and wisdom, I will be an enthusiastic proponent for Spinning Babies for the rest of my life! Thank you Gail!!!” -Steph Nikki Eliason, Houston, TX
Penny Simkin and Gail Tully
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