Optimum fetal positioning
What is Spinning Babies?
Spinning Babies is an approach intended to optimize the physical relationship between the parent’s body and the baby to support a more comfortable birth. It uses clues from the baby’s position and station to explore physiological techniques that can be used in different birth settings, childbirth programs, and pain-management plans.
- Align the uterus so the baby can curl and enter the pelvis in a compact position.
- Release tight ligaments or muscles that may pull or twist, which may help relieve pelvic discomfort during pregnancy or birth.
- Support areas of looseness in the womb or pelvis with a pregnancy belt.
- Create space in the pelvis to help the baby move down during the birth process.
- Share birth knowledge with parents and providers in ever-deepening layers of understanding.
Begin with activities to support the range of motion and alignment, to reach a healthy mix of mobility and stability for the pelvis. Comfort and function return to the body.
The founder writes:
“Every day I hear happy results:
Watch this video about techniques intended to help a breech baby turn:
- Back labor eased
- Breech babies that flip head down
- Transverse (sideways) babies suddenly turn head down – cesarean canceled!
- Posterior babies (sunny-side-up) rotate and/or descend
- First labors occurring regularly in 8 hours or less
- Cesareans canceled outside the OR; baby already born!
- More natural births and VBACs around the world!
Together we notice that when women restore the balance in their muscles and alignment in the pelvis, birth goes better.”