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Let’s return to basics. This information will help you when a birth colleague asks you what you are doing when you are doing techniques suggested on the Spinning Babies® website.
Why is one person’s birth easier and another’s birth harder when both share the intent for a physiological birth?...

I’m often finding myself self-tightening when I hear my colleague say “stretch the ligament.” But my reaction is not logical. Just five minutes before I’ve said the same thing: Stretch! So why the visceral reaction to the word stretch? While saying it...

Pain Pattern Before Engagement
When labor is active – contractions are strong and frequent – but baby remains high, check to see if baby remains high in the pelvis or is yet above the pelvis.
At -3 Station, baby’s head is right at the entrance to the pelvis, the inlet. The provider typically finds this out when a vaginal examination shows baby’s head is a full finger’s length inside the vagina. Quite a reach is necessary. If the amniotic...

American College of Obstetricians and Gynecology and other nations’ leading birth organizations and the social organizations who seek to guide their practice with statistical and ethical considerations are working more collaboratively now to reduce the...