Spinning Babies® is an approach based on easing baby’s rotation. When rotation is easier for baby, birth is often easier for mother.
The pelvis has three levels and each level may differ in where there is more space for baby’s head. Babies change position in labor to fit the pelvis. To make position changes easier for baby, we include muscle lengthening (toning not strengthening), body balancing, and increasing the measurements of each diameter of the pelvis, when helping labor be easier is a goal. Spinning Babies® develops a new paradigm for birth care for parents and for providers that is not cervix-centered or force-powered.
Spinning Babies® is not another way of saying Optimal Fetal Positioning. Spinning Babies® is indebted to Midwife Jean Sutton, developer of Optimal Fetal Positioning.