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12/31/14

Three P's in a pod

Especially the invention of artificial Pitocin birth providers have increasingly seen labor progress as a result of an opening cervix. After all, if we have a hammer, every thing looks like a nail. If we have a long labor, everything seems to be about the cervix not opening fast enough.

The focus of labor progress has been on the combination of three birth factors. The 1.) power of contractions

12/20/14

The 5 Steps to Birth Happiness

We all get emails promising the 5 steps to financial wellbeing or life's little happiness habits.
Let's try finding 5 steps to birth happiness and see how we do.

The house is quiet; the rhythm of your baby's sucking lulls you into a reflective mood. (Finally, after 8 weeks you can feed your first baby without focusing on every detail of the feeding.) With your baby in your arms, your thoughts

12/15/14

My friend Willma's third homebirth

Thanks for sharing, Willma!
I loved being a moment of celebration early in your journey. Your baby
is strong and as gorgeous as your other children! The following pictures are of our Belly Painting in England last June (2014). I wish you great love and every prosperity in family, joy, and service!

Gail adding Willma's eyes adoring her developing babe.
Who is this little one?
Ken Johnson

12/9/14

The Fantastic Four

There are four mutually supportive "Body Balance" techniques that a pregnant woman and her trusted support person or provider can do to prepare for a gentler birth. In the new Spinning Babies' Parent Class each technique is thoroughly demonstrated with a pregnant woman and her support person.

Here is the Fantastic Four:

Very gentle but rapid jiggling of the abdominal and pelvic muscles helps

11/22/14

When the doctor says "No."

"I am a doula to a mom with Mo/Di twins. I recommended SpinningBabies
to her since her wee ones are transverse right now. She spoke with her
Dr. who said to avoid the Spinning Babies exercises stating they were
not safe for her type of twins.

I would like to know your opinions and thoughts on this. "

My response may help those of you who are facing two seemingly opposing points of

10/23/14

Incarcerated Uterus

Her uterus was retroflexed (aimed backwards). During the first trimester of pregnancy her womb, still tipped back, grew into the curved space in front of the sacrum and tailbone under the sacral promontory. The uterus is not up in the abdomen at all!

Picture from Wikipedia

Once upon a time, a doctor wrote about this rare condition and used the phrase, "incarcerated uterus." Wikipedia

10/20/14

Father Faruk protects his twins natural birth

Midwife Lina Duncan is a Global Midwifery Council friend living and serving birthing families in India. She helped Faruk and his wife find the resources to help their full term twins get head down on a recent Spinning Babies adventure.

Here are Faruk's own words:

"...Me and my wife, Yasmin, went for sonography. We were all the
time visualizing to have twins as that would make us more

9/26/14

Breech then and now

Thirty one years ago I caught my friend's breech baby in Omaha, Nebraska. I was thinking of this Monday with a group of midwives and doulas at the lovely Mommy Fitness Omaha with Julie Summers and Kelly Langfeldt of Five Stones Massage and Birth Services. Kelly invited me down to present a Spinning Babies Workshop to the now thriving Omaha birth circle.

My friend's midwife was unexpectedly

9/25/14

Why won't this labor start properly?

This post discusses onset of labor.

A woman is commonly considered in labor when her cervix is progressively opening and continuing to open. Stages of labor are the first stage of cervical dilation, the second stage of "pushing" or until the actual birth of the baby, and third stage which begins after the baby is out and until the placenta is out. A fourth stage of labor is described as the

9/16/14

Flexion matters

The Anterior Positions and LOP
At Spinning Babies, fetal position matters.

Babies positioned on mother’s left side more often curl and tuck their chins more easily (flexion, flek’-shun). This makes baby’s head measurement smaller and lines up baby with the pelvis to be able to help in the birth process.

Flexion is more imporant than position. Muscles and ligament “balance” is more important

9/7/14

A new start for active labor, a new question for progress

The new guidelines from ACOG

Recent changes in defining active phase of labor from 4 cm to 6 cm. This change is intended to help first time mothers avoid being given a cesarean when labor is simply slower than what was considered normal. Longer labors can certainly be normal. So when the question is asked, "How far dilated is she?" or "How far dilated am I?" the pressure for progress is

8/13/14

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LB : 90m2

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Toilet duduk

7/31/14

Encouragement to a new Baby Spinner

There is much for a birth worker (doula, nurse, midwife, family medicine or obstetrician)

to learn at Spinning Babies. There is often a transitionary phase between workshop and confidence.

Observe the mother with your new paradigm and listen to intuitive guidance. From this gentle approach you begin introducing comfort measures and balancing activities appropriate to nurture a calm inner

7/3/14

What I'll talk about at Lamaze DONA conference 2014

September 18, 2014 from 8-noon, I'll be talking how educator's can gracefully talk about malposition in labor.
Come on down to Kansas City! http://www.lamazedona2014.org/p/cm/ld/fid=473

Resolving Fetal Malposition in Labor; An Educator’s Opportunity

Presented by Gail Tully, CPM, CD (DONA)
Given the
increased complication and intervention rates of posterior and
asynclitic babies childbirth

7/2/14

His flipping was the talk of OB

Edited Emails, (Consultation call missing)

KC
Teasley writes,

Dear
Gail,

I
wish to have a natural birth with no medical intervention. My baby is
incomplete breech with his left foot by his face. He is also turned to my left.
My amniotic fluid levels

5/20/14

Oblique lie at 35 weeks

Hi Gail,

I’m 35 weeks pregnant (actually 34.5), second baby... First baby was born at home, this one will be in a hospital for practical reasons. Baby girl #2 is still changing positions and moving a ton, but she seems to be in an oblique position quite a bit. At my last midwife appt, she was oblique with head in my right hip, back diagonal, butt up near belly button height on left side,

4/15/14

Spinning Babies Perspective

Spinning Babies is not a method. Spinning Babies is a way of looking at childbirth.
Here, I see the mother and baby moving together as partners in birth. That makes sense, they each have a role, a choreograph or dance step to do in the birth process.
When baby is lined up with the pelvis, labor proceeds spontaneously. What do I mean lined up?

When baby's back is curled towards the front and

4/6/14

Follow the Love

My Other Mother died Friday. Helen was enjoying a wonderful week in sunny Mexico with our friends, Mari, Frank and sons, Ari and Marco. A small sore on her leg, where the doctor had removed a mole three years before, had never healed and was vulnerable to a virulent and opportunist bacteria that took her life in 24 shocking hours. 12 hours into it, at the hospital, Helen reassured Mari, "I had a

2/26/14

Baby not engaged at end of pregnancy

"I just came out of my doctor's appointment for 39 weeks. He says no cervical change (cervix is posterior) and baby is still floating. "

The cervix can change in hours so dilation is no indication. The posterior aim of the cervix is expected and can be helped with improved sacral mobility, one way of achieving that is the Forward-Leaning Inversion daily for two weeks. Can we get there

2/21/14

Daily Essentials is gestating nicely!

Working with Melissa Koch to bring about two videos and watch, from a distance, her produce a video for Sarah Longacre has been a growing experience. How can one small body hold such amazing talent!? She tells the story on film of the vision I had in my head.

Sarah's video is out and gorgeous. And so affordable! I can't wait for Daily Essentials to come out next month. See the description

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