Course of Fetal Position Changes
What can you expect for your baby’s position at any given week in pregnancy? Before 24 weeks and sometimes to 28 weeks, the baby is often in the transverse lie. The baby floats in the womb and until the head grows heavy with all those baby thoughts, the baby may not be in a vertical […]
Arm First- What Is Baby’s Position?
A woman’s labor is progressing. The water sac releases amniotic fluid. The midwife/doctor examines the woman’s cervix. Suddenly, the plan changes from the “routine miracle” of a second birth to an emergency cesarean. Why? The midwife/doctor finds an elbow coming first. Here’s the mother’s story with slight edits, including those to conceal her identity: My […]
The Evidence Base
When I speak in Academia I’m asked if my approach is evidence based. Its funny because first I’m invited. The nurses, like a nurse named Nancy, tell me how excited they are that I’m coming. They share their goals for integrating the approach into the hospital and share their dreams of spreading the solutions to […]
When Spinning Babies Fails
The success of Spinning Babies lies upon a continuum. Any particular pregnant woman’s ease of her birth can also be thought of as along a continuum. The ease or difficulty of repositioning any particular baby before or during labor also falls along a spectrum from easy to difficult, even “too late.” Some women will […]
Praise Report
“Hey, Gail, this is Maureen,” the message on the phone said.“I’m just sharing a praise report. We just got the ultrasound back and Emily’s baby’s head is down. And I am giving credit to God and to your hands that He used and your technique to get that head down. Thank you so much for […]
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 […]
Spinning Babies® as an Option to Labor Solutions – Monthly Update
The new Spinning Babies® knowledge expands what we know about childbirth. We can be surprised there is so much more than taught in university. Midwives often exclaim, “Why didn’t I learn this in school?” Modern education includes so much technology. Spinning Babies keeps physiological birth relevant to the provider. This becomes more important in low-resource […]
Communicating the Body Sense
Observing an Invitation to Act Let us approach the labor with a calm, quiet, observation. We observe the response to contractions. When observing signs of a disconnection to labor because of pain or low morale or a struggles to self regulate as an invitation to act, we may introduce a gentle suggestion for a technique. There […]
Where’s Baby? What Can Be Done?
Today, we’ll be looking at a birth story that ended in a cesarean, what led to that outcome, and discuss solutions for a labor dystocia lower in the pelvis. Birth Scenario A short history of the Birth Giver: First birth History of tailbone injury Fetal position ROT SROM (Spontaneous Rupture of Membranes) Nipple stimulation with […]
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 […]
June Update 2018
2018 is proving to be a practical year. Bringing on that practicality is confronting in such a good way. Personally, I’ve been seeking to take the paradigm of physiology deeper. Funny where the challenges lie, kindness to those close, sitting smart when full on working, taking morning time for breathing and “balancing” when workshop schedules […]
Face Presentation
Some of us like to face the music, face the facts, turn to the light, face life full on… The baby who is coming face first, or face presentation, most often is born fine in this position. There may be a little slow down after ten centimeters which can be helped by standing in a […]
