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 you help your parents and clients. See the Timeline below to guide your clients in using the recommended techniques regularly.
Spinning Babies® Three BalancesSM Visit Plan
Visit A – The Jiggle
The Jiggle uses various hand positions around the thighs and hips, buttocks and sitz bones to relax muscles by rippling the fluid-like substance in the fascia. This amazingly simple and amazingly relaxing technique comes to Spinning Babies® through Fiona Hallinan (shown) and her teaching partner, Jenny Blyth, both Spinning Babies® Approved Trainers.
At Visit “A”, which can be after intake is complete, at approximately 18-22 weeks. You teach the birthing person and their birth partner how to do The Jiggle in a relaxed environment (or mood!). This helps activate the parasympathetics which are associated with “rest and digest” -a very supportive state for pregnancy!
Some of our Spinning Babies® community of Aware Practitioners and Parent Educators may be also traditional healers, midwives, or practitioners from Mexico, Central America or parts of South American heritage with a lineage of Rebozo Manteada use. We recognize the important conversations around use of traditional techniques and dehttps://www.spinningbabies.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/sample3-1.png the changes and limits of our use of the Rebozo on our webpage about the Rebozo.
Visit B – Side-lying Release
At Visit “B” introduce the Side-lying Release, and review The Jiggle.
Visit C – Forward-leaning Inversion
At Visit “C”, teach the birthing person and birth partner how to do Forward-leaning Inversions. Please also review the Side-lying Release.
Spinning Babies® Recommended Timeline
When and what for your client visits.
20 weeks, pregnant person begins Daily Essentials in earnest, daily!
30 weeks, note baby’s lie. If not head down, recommend self-care protocol
34 weeks, note baby’s presentation, if not LOT, LOA, or OA (baby is more likely to be in an OA position in very late labor but a few start that way), recommend bodywork.
36 weeks, for babies still breech, determine with pregnant person if External Cephalic Version (ECV) is appropriate for them.
38 – 40 weeks, note whether baby’s forehead overlaps pubic bone. Encourage alignment of pelvis (using a trained professional and self-care).
41 weeks, repeat body work
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