Safety and Risk

Like all matters of the heart, As in all true passions of art, Birth calls for the fullness of your commitment. To give ourselves fully is to be met fully, For Spirit responds as is trusted.   Birth brings us face to face with mystery. Don’t do the following techniques if there is bleeding or […]

That's why they call it labor and not epidural

Love and vision brought it all together, though it was tough at the end. Such a birth helped the family go deep into where they were really at, and look at beliefs and see if the beliefs were assumptions and not really the fiber of their lives in an era when the hospital culture is […]

ACOG’s loose cog on homebirth and Gail’s comments

I got an email from my friend Debra Pascali Bonaro today. She’s always up to date. She sent along the following statement from American College of Obtetricians and Gynecologists. Wow, see ACOG’s news release below against Home Birth… ACOG must be feeling threatened from all the discussion about Home birth…The Business of Being Born and […]

Minneapolis Birth ranks high

Alisa Blackwood, a local doula here, sent this around today: Fit Pregnancy magazine has named Minneapolis the 2nd best city to have a baby in (behind Portland, Ore.). One of the reasons? “Minneapolis has one doula for every 37 live births, the highest ratio in our survey. The national average is one doula per 649 […]

Alternative to Induction

Wanna know the Spinning Babies way to help a baby settle down on the cervix? First, Help the mother, according to her intuitions, choice, conscience, agreement and/or inclinations, to Straighten (balance) the lower uterine segment with Sacral release 3-10 minutes Sifting 3 minutes, Inversion 30 seconds, then crawling forward to hands and knees to catch […]