Birth Practice 1 and 2 are aimed more towards providers and not as much towards parents. Birth Practice 1 and 2 are on-line versions of courses and workshops presented at conferences in the past few years as well. 


Birth Practices with Spinning Babies® includes presentations from 4 different conference sessions including:

  • Gail Tully, Tammy Ryan, and Nikki Zerfas demonstrate and discuss three favorite body balance techniques.
  • Labor & Delivery Nurse Nikki Zerfas' extensive use of Spinning Babies® in a busy hospital setting .
  • how to decrease transfer rates to the hospital in labor for home birth and birth center practices, with Rachel Shapiro, CNM, CPM.
  • Bonus session from SIAPARTO 2020, in which Gail Tully explores the soft tissue pelvis with her homemade props and simple but eloquent style.   


Learning Objectives:

  1. Demonstrate how to begin and end a gentle vibration of the thigh and buttocks.
  2. Identify the safety position to prevent a fall while going into and out from a Forward-leaning Inversion.
  3. Prioritize the hip hold on a Side-lying Release to reduce pelvic muscle tension.
  4. Identify implications of epidural pain management on mobility in labor as related to the Spinning Babies® approach.
  5. Dehttps://www.spinningbabies.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/sample3-1.png adjustments to The Balances℠ and Pelvic Level Solutions℠ when there is reduced or altered mobility.
  6. Discuss suggested precautions with the Spinning Babies® approach when mobility and sensation are altered or reduced.
  7. Identify techniques that can decrease hospital transfer rates by limiting time of ruptured membranes without contractions (PROM).
  8. Identify techniques that can decrease hospital transfer rates by decreasing the length and occurrence of prodromal labors and persistent posterior presentation (especially in a primip).
  9. Identify techniques that can decrease hospital transfer rates by decreasing the incidence of arrest of labor in the first stage.
  10. Identify techniques that can decrease hospital transfer rates by decreasing arrest of descent in the second stage.


Birth Practices II with Spinning Babies® includes presentations by:

  • “Biodynamic Birth” midwife Claire Eccleston 
  • “Role of the Round Ligaments” with midwife Rachel Shapiro 
  • “The Sacrum in Labor” with Dr. Kristen Hosaka
  • "Observing Birth" with Nicole Morales 
  • “The Jiggle - Pelvic Jiggling" with Jenny Blyth 


Course Outcomes:

  1. Discuss how a biodynamic approach aligns with Spinning Babies® principles.
  2. Distinguish the Round Ligaments by their structure, their functions, and their anatomical origin and insertions.
  3. Demonstrate the Three Balances Forward-leaning Inversion and The Jiggle techniques for restoring balance to the round ligaments.
  4. Differentiate normal and abnormal motion of the sacrum in labor
  5. https://www.spinningbabies.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/sample3-1.png the main limitation of using cervical dilation as the sole assessment for progress.


Spinning Babies® Birth Preparation Online Course is specifically for parents. 


Why Take This Course?

You and your baby will experience birth together. This course gives you the pathway to work with yourself, your body, and your baby. Doing this program, you’ll increase your range of motion in your body. You are able to move with more ease, and perhaps, your baby is likely to move with more ease, too. Feel comfort today and have more ease in your birth process. The course includes printable downloads to chart your activities, share with your provider, reflect on your experiences, and remind you of techniques. 


You can add this course to the all around childbirth information in your childbirth education whether that is from Lamaze, ICEA, Pain to Power, Calm Birth, Hypnobabies, Hypnobirthing, Commonsense Childbirth, or another wonderful childbirth education program.


If you are pregnant and looking for prenatal education, the birth preparation course is the best choice.