Three Balances Visit Plan & Timeline for Your Clients
Do you feel confident in how you encourage a birthing person to try Spinning Babies® approach in their birth? How do you choose what to say to support physiological prenatal preparation? To help your clients know how to use Spinning Babies® Three Balances we offer providers a visit plan. Spinning Babies® is interested in helping […]
Reduce unnecessary cesareans, new book
From our Nov. 2020 newsletter Entering November for me is entering a meditation on gratitude. This past month many of my dreams have come true, a full-length book, the Spinning Babies® 2020 World Confluence, and a super talented team running Spinning Babies®. But most deliciously this season brought a grandchild, our 8th, and last night […]
Monthly Update: A simple technique to ease childbirth, virtual confluence, and more!
In this month’s update: Tips for using the Abdominal Lift and Tuck to make childbirth easier How two expecting moms were able to help their babies move to a more optimal position for birth Spinning Babies® 2020 World Confluence has gone virtual ? Upcoming events plus a new workshop added to our World Confluence […]
Monthly Update: Activating Pelvic Function, VBAC Tips, Online Classes, and More!
In this month’s update: A message from our Founder Gail Tully Advice from Gail on enhancing balance plus pelvic and bladder function Tips for having a VBAC and reducing pain in vaginal birth How you can take an Online, Guided Spinning Babies® Parent Class Announcing our new online course: Resolving Shoulder Dystocia Get the latest […]
Daily Essentials With a Toddler
Balancing caring for a toddler and pregnancy can be challenging, especially when it comes to exercising. Spinning Babies® has your back with the Daily Essentials video: a simple series of activities to keep your body active as you progress through your pregnancy that you can do from the comfort of your home. The Daily Essentials […]
When a Person Is Told They Have an Unstable Lie
Lie means how the baby lies in the womb. The head-down baby is in a vertical lie, sometimes called cephalic to use a Latin term to mean the head is coming. Breech is an old English term to mean the baby’s pelvis is coming first. Both a head up (breech) and a head-down (cephalic) baby are […]
Birth Story: Preventing Asynclitism
From our Nov. 2019 Newsletter: Adding Balance to Prevent Asynclitism in Pregnancy A common cause of a long labor is baby being asynclitic. The labor may be long from the beginning, but often labor starts well and then slows down during transition. Pushing can take hours. Five hours is common with a baby whose head […]
Asynclitism and the Doula Scope of Practice
Last week I talked about the nurse or midwife learning the baby’s tipped presentation by the cervical exam. Thicker cervix into one side, the side the head remains deeper on. Thinner cervix shares the side that the head presses further out along. Below is an email I received from a doula asking for advice on […]
Four Restorative Techniques
While developing more finesse for our Spinning Babies® Parent Class, a delightful email arrives praising the benefit one woman received from the windmill exercise. This exercise is named after the lifting and rotating of our arms to achieve a nice stretch in our muscles and fascia between our lungs and ribs. Windmills adds a gentle stretch […]
Alternatives to Forward-leaning Inversions
Alternative Inversions Spinning Babies® is relatively new to the birth scene and the concepts we present are also new. We are learning what are appropriate techniques and how to do them. This month we discuss safety and use of one of our favorite techniques: the Forward-leaning Inversion. It is an amazing technique designed by Dr. Carol […]
Parent Education and Fetal Position
Spinning Babies® is sensitive to the fine line between informing and alarming when it comes to baby positions. There are debates about whether to tell a pregnant person their baby is posterior. Why not tell the truth? Fetal position is changeable (but this is often left to chance because why fetal position changes at the […]
Spinning Babies® and High Blood Pressure and Pre Eclampsia
Success Story “Just had to share a success story with you. We had a 38 week induction for severe pre-eclampsia on the floor. She’d been on Pitocin for hours, was up to 22mu and still only 5cm, -3 or -4 station, head ballotable and seeming to be caught on the brim of the pelvis (with […]