Free Tools
Free Tools Daily Pelvic Floor Exercises – A quick-start guide to balancing the pelvic floor Birth Collaboration with Spinning Babies – A conversation to your Birth Team Labor Checklist – Techniques to help you during labor 3 Ways to Shorten Labor – A guide to support pregnant people needing to be self-sufficient in labor
Listen: Imagining Ideal Fetal Positions
Listen: Imagining Ideal Fetal Positions Below is a fantastic recording for helping you to imagine an ideal fetal position for your baby, brought to us by the wonderful Phyllis Klaus and Barbara Decker. Phyllis Klaus, MFT, LCSW Phyllis Klaus is a licensed psychotherapist and social worker. She practices in Berkeley, California, providing psychotherapy, hypnotherapy and […]
Spinning Babies® Response to the Coronavirus
Spinning Babies® Response to the Coronavirus Public Statement Update on June 26: On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 to be a pandemic. All countries must aim to stop transmission and prevent the spread of COVID-19, whether they face no cases, sporadic cases, clusters, or community transmission. Spinning Babies® Response to the Coronavirus […]
Overdue? Is Baby Engaged Yet?
Overdue? Is Baby Engaged Yet? Fetal engagement is when the widest part of the baby’s presenting part (usually the head) enters the pelvic brim or inlet. A first baby often engages two weeks before birth, approximately 38 weeks gestation. While studies show that engagement may happen in labor, when baby isn’t engaged when labor starts, […]
Pregnant Caregivers
Pregnant Caregivers Pregnant caregivers are twisting to help patients and clients on a bed or a massage table, which can eventually twist and tighten the uterine ligaments. For instance, if you stand on the same side of the bed or massage table and work on a person, you will be leaning in the same direction […]
Glossary
Glossary abdominal lift. Janie King’s book Back Labor no More dehttps://www.spinningbabies.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/sample3-1.pngs this position where you lift your belly during a contraction to re-angle the baby with the pelvis. Also called the “Belly Lift”. Gail Tully adds the posterior pelvic tuck to increase the front-to-back distance at the top of the pelvis to “make room” for baby […]
