Birthful podcast with Gail and Adriana

What is the key to an easier birth?
How do we get there?
Adriana Lozada interviewed Gail on her wonderful Mirthful Podcast.


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Hear the inside scoop on the beliefs I share through the message of Spinning Babies. You'll hear about birth anatomy in a totally new way. More than the basics are given, so get your cup of tea. If you have a doll grab it for late in

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Preventing The Epidural Labor Stall

Here's a picture from an Austin, Texas Spinning Babies Workshop of a labor progress technique shared by Dr. Diane Peterson, OB.

Purpose: Engage the Baby into the pelvis when mother is on an epidural and can't stand up for the Abdominal Lift and Pelvic Tilt.

Gail was a doula in Minneapolis, long ago before she had the knowledge of Sidelying Release. At one birth, Dr. Diane suggested we help

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Timeline for Fetal Position

Babies follow a natural progression to settle into the final birth position. Well, not exactly final. So I call it, the starting position for labor. It almost always changes for baby to rotate through the pelvis.
Oxorn
and Foote, Obstetric text book authors, state that most babies are in
position at 34 weeks gestation. This means that fewer babies will change
position after 34 weeks.
We

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You can tell if your baby is engaged

Engaged or not?
Sometimes the posterior baby's
head seems low in the pelvis when checked by vaginal exam. The nurse,
doctor, or midwife feels the dome of the head and it doesn't wiggle. So,
they think, the head is not ballottable, and that equals engaged.
Therefore, the head is engaged.

But that estimation is wrong
when baby's facing the front with her or his forehead on the pelvic

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Engaging Baby in Labor

Engagement of the baby into the pelvic inlet (brim) is important because to fit through the pelvis, baby has to get into the pelvis first. Engagement is when the widest part of baby's head enters the true brim of the pelvis.




Figure 1. Diagram depicting the fetal head
immediately prior to engagement. The straight black arrow depicts the
scanning plane at the level of the pelvic inlet,

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Unraveling the mystery of non-engagement

Dear Gail, "I loved your new video on exercises for optimal fetal positioning!

I finally got my second baby into the right position but alas, he did not
engage and I did not go into labour which resulted in an elective
section at 42 weeks.

I had a previous cesarean when my waters broke without contractions. My first baby didn't
engage despite being induced.  I'm now wondering if there is

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Summer yum, good eating in pregnancy

Supporting your body to support your pregnancy involves nutrition, movement, and love. You can mix the order up how ever you like! (In this order, sooth your hunger, add balance and flexibility for your pregnancy comfort or ease of birth, and enjoy a cuddle.)

SpinningBabies.com has lots of movement and balance ideas. I'm hoping your friends and family are giving you the love reflecting the

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