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In this episode, I interview my friend Gail, the founder of Spinning Babies®!
Here are the questions we go over!
1. How did you start Spinning Babies?
2. Ample fetal positioning (specifically, that head-down is not enough), and creating room in a woman’s pelvis are two key points I learned from my spinning babies workshop – can you elaborate on the importance of these regarding labor?
3. Are there exercises/movements/tips you recommend we implement during pregnancy for an easier labor?
4. I often have women asking “how do I turn my breech baby?”, do you have advice, best resources on this question?
5. What about posterior babies (they are so common) – how can we prevent or avoid a posterior position during labor?
6. Let’s talk about asyncliticism – what that is, and how to overcome a baby who is asynclitic.
Gail’s Bio:
Midwife Gail Tully (CPM) is the creator of the Spinning Babies® approach. Recognized around the world by midwives, nurses, childbirth educators, and doulas, Gail’s ability to recognize the spatial relationships between the soft tissue pelvis and the baby has contributed a paradigm shift in childbirth care. Twenty years developing Spinning Babies has taken Gail’s small independent practice and local community work has grown to global education. In her home town of Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, Gail has been a program coordinator for Hennepin County Doula Program, consultant for the Turtle Women Doula and Somali Doula Programs and a founding mother of the Childbirth Collective, one of the largest doula organizations in the USA.
Gail Tully is the author of Breech Birth Quick Guide; Spinning Babies® Quick Reference; and Belly Mapping®, How kicks and wiggles reveal your baby’s position. Gail has created three videos: Spinning Babies® Parent Class, Daily Essentials (with Sarah Longacre of Blooma); and Resolving Shoulder Dystocia. Penny Simkin and Ruth Ancheta’s Labor Progress Handbook features Belly Mapping in Chapter 3. Anne Frye’s Holistic Midwifery, Vol 2, cites Gail on shoulder dystocia. Midwifery Today published Gail on Shoulder Dystocia; The basics; Belly Mapping; and Opening the Brim, and Resolving Breech Obstruction.
Gail presents to residents when presenting the adaptation of her workshop for hospital systems to their staff midwives and nurses. Newton Wesley Hospital chose Spinning Babies® for a Quality Improvement program. The annual American Public Health Association accepted The NWH QI as a poster presentation. Enthusiastic nurses are using Spinning Babies® to reduce cesarean rates at their hospitals.
See SpinningBabies.com for more information on Gail Tully, the Approved Trainers and Spinning Babies.
Interested in bringing Gail or another Approved Trainer to your city? See the current list of Approved Trainer on our Spinning Babies website and book a workshop with this form
