Spinning Babies® Body Balancing.

The Spinning Babies® Approach

Spinning Babies® is a physiological approach to preparing for and caring for birth. With an emphasis on physiology before force, Spinning Babies® focuses on working with the body in a different way in order to activate nature.

Your baby will move to and rest where there is the most space. By utilizing various self-care and specific body activities we can help restore body balance and make room for your baby, encouraging them to move into the most optimal anatomical space available.

 

What is Body Balancing

Creating balance in the pregnant body can be key to not only help alleviate common aches and pains in pregnancy, but to also help encourage baby to rest in an optimal position allowing for more ease in childbirth.

In this session we can help assist in the restoration of space by focusing on specific bodywork techniques and releases to the uterus, pelvis, muscles and ligaments which can allow for baby to travel through the pelvis with more ease and less force.

Additionally we will review the Three Balances℠, fetal positioning and self care opportunities you and your partner can do at home.

This session is ideal for mama’s in their second to third trimester of pregnancy, and especially helpful for those needing extra support in assisting breech babies to turn and prior to and/or after an External Cephalic Version or ECV.

This session is not a traditional massage, so we ask that you wear comfortable clothes you can move in and ask that you set aside up to two hours for the initial session.

Spinning Babies® Body Balancing Session . . . . . $185

  • A Body Balancing Session is great for prenatal women who are in their second or third trimester. The activities and bodywork that are included in this session can be crucial for comfort or even supporting a vaginal birth.

    If you experience any of the following, we encourage you to reach out and see if a Body Balancing Session may be right for you:

    • Discomfort when walking or lying in bed

    • A challenging previous birth, that includes long and/or painful labor, previous cesarean or other interventions that may have been unwanted

    • Baby is breech, posterior or lying sideways

  • A Body Balancing Session is not like a traditional relaxing massage. Though there will be moments of rest on the table and receiving relaxing therapeutic bodywork, there will also be moments where we move from position to position. This means traditional draping may or may not be used, so we recommend wearing clothes you can move in such as athletic shorts or leggings, a comfortable t-shirt, tank or athletic shirt and/or a sports bra.

  • You can find more information about Spinning Babies® on their website at:

    www.spinningbabies.com

    With that said, we are in contact with local Spinning Babies® Parent Educators and are more than happy to recommend a local Spinning Babies® class for additional support.

  • Especially when in the later stages of pregnancy, we understand the importance of keeping baby in the most optimal position and fully appreciate this concern.

    If in your pregnancy you have had a normal amount of amniotic fluid, only very rarely would doing things like the inversions, or going upside down, cause the baby to move breech. Experiencing chronic tension causing baby to turn breech after initially loosening those tight areas can be released with more body balancing. This can allow the baby to turn right back to head down. Turning breech from head down is extremely rare. If you have concerns please don’t hesitate to reach out to discuss your situation further.

  • No. A Body Balancing Session is not like a traditional relaxing massage. Though there will be moments of rest on the table and receiving relaxing therapeutic bodywork, there will also be moments where we move from position to position. This means you may also be asked to stay completely clothed for certain techniques or activities.

    Additionally communication between you and the practitioner is key, so we will be in constant communication about what you may be feeling and experiencing.

  • Yes! Near the end of the session we love to offer additional support and education so you can do some of these things at home.

    We recommend having only 1 support person present so we can help educate both of you.