This class helps you work with your body to get ready for the birth of your baby. Spinning Babies® approach adds more comfort in pregnancy and more ease in birth. Our body-centered approach can be used everyday in pregnancy, in early labor and when helpful in active labor. There are also birth positions to help in labor and while pushing. Practice just 15 or 30 minutes a day you grow trust with your innate abilities. You may find more calm and emotional resilience as well.

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.

Gail Tully, the creator of Spinning Babies^® and her advisors created this program to support birthing parents to have techniques and confidence in their own bodies. In this online course, you’ll also meet Jennifer Walker, the first Director of the Certified Parent Educator program, and your Instructors, Emma Moreland, Spinning Babies® Trainer; and Paula Roufs, Spinning Babies® Certified Parent Educator Instructor. Special appearance by Tema Mercado, Midwife and Spinning Babies® Approved Trainer.

Is It Safe?
Consult your provider when starting an exercise program. Let them know we don’t use manipulation of the baby. The word “Spinning” is not something we do. Baby does the spinning. “Spinning” means the turns that a baby makes to get into position for birth and, then, travel through the pelvis.

Babies “spin” when the space in the body is made available. We offer techniques to make room for baby. One exercise includes getting upside down and coming up again. A few people shouldn’t go upside down due to high blood pressure or another risk. Look at all the contraindications and check with your doctor or midwife. We take a careful approach and want you to be safe. If you aren’t sure, don’t do it.

If you have unusual concerns about your health, you may wish to consult your doctor or midwife, a physical therapist, exercise specialist or an experienced prenatal yoga instructor for safe and correct adaptations.

Recommended Daily Activities Materials
Yoga mat
Stretchy band or cloth belt
2 Pillows and a bolster or a third pillow (firm to sit on)
Yoga block, pool noodle (thicker than half the length of your foot), or rolled towel
Chair
A place where you can prop up your device for watching as you do activities
Your water bottle or glass of water to sip throughout