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Spinning Babies® offers a unique pregnancy preparation program with labor activities that have been shown to ease birth. It can be used with any childbirth method or none at all. This approach is good in any childbirth setting, home, hospital, and independent birth center.

The Spinning Babies® Workshop offers continuing education for midwives and nurses in many areas. These workshops are open to other professionals who serve people during pregnancy and birth, such as, doctors, childbirth educators, doulas, prenatal yoga instructors, chiropractors, massage therapists, fascial therapy practitioners, and community health workers.

Who should attend these workshops?

The Spinning Babies workshop is for maternity team members who have had maternity or obstetric education and at least one year of birth experience.

Who teaches this course?

Tammy Ryan has been attending births since 2002. She is a birth doula trainer for DONA International, childbirth educator, midwifery assistant and one of 15 trainers worldwide for Spinning Babies.

“The participants in this workshop are thrilled to be able to help reposition the baby by repositioning the mother. Anecdotally, the labor and delivery nurses and doulas have watched almost certain C-sections turn in to vaginal deliveries by adjusting the patient’s position.”

-Shauna Lively, EdD, RN, LCCE

Topics discussed include:

 

  1. A new premise for childbirth ease and labor progress for the experienced provider.

  2. Exploration of the role of “Soft Tissues” in pregnancy, labor, and fetal position (muscles, ligaments, connective tissue).

  3. Common causes and effects of posterior position on pregnancy and labor.

  4. Fetal Positioning and labor progress.

  5. Resolving the stalled labor.

  6. Practice activities for pregnancy comfort, spontaneous birth as nature intended, and cesarean avoidance.

  7. Identifying a stall in labor via labor pattern and match a technique.

Attend a Workshop!

If you are interested in attending a Spinning Babies® workshop, or you would like additional information, please contact:

Shauna Lively
[email protected]