Spinning Babies®

A midwife asked me if trying to influence the baby’s position wasn’t an intervention that is disturbing to the mother. Introducing mothers to the risks of p...

The ideal, or optimal, fetal position is a flexed baby. We often hear that an optimal position is head down with baby’s back to your front or left. That’s b...

Some of the special circumstances techniques should not be used unless the fetal position is known! Don’t do a true open-knee chest for a head-down bab...

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 thre...

Sleeping on the left side is good for blood circulation to the baby. Of course, mothers roll over, but spending more time on your left side than on your rig...

There’s more to labor ease than which way the baby faces in the pelvis. Both breech and posterior fetal positions can be born by natural birth. Spontane...

The benefits of all the usual Spinning Babies® techniques are good for anterior starting positions as well as the posterior starting positions. The usual te...

I am inclined to say no, not when the Forward-Leaning Inversion is done with these directions. But you should know first: Does the mother have high blo...

Habits of poor posture and chronic tension affect the balance (symmetry, abdominal tone and the state of tension or relaxation) over time. The uterus works ...

This is a trick question. It’s just not helpful to think of fetal position as being anyone’s fault. In a long labor, a mother may ask “Why doesn’t this baby...