We are so pleased to host midwife Gail Tully in Norwich as part of her UK tour ...
Spinning Babies Workshop
9 am to 5 pm, 7 March 2012
Martineau Hall, Colgate, Norwich, NR3 1BN
The Fee for the workshop is £65 (£55 if paid by 31 Jan, or student midwife concession). Register by downloading our Registration Form and forwarding your payment by cheque. If you wish to register by e-mail and pay by BACS, please e-mail Norwich Birth Group. Registration fees are non-refundable, but you are welcome to send someone in your place if you cannot attend.
Rebozos (beautiful Mexican shawls used for some positioning birth work, among other things, required for the workshop) will be available for sale on the day of the event (price and further info TBA).
Nearest (and cheapest) parking and bus stops are in the Anglia Square area.
For more information about Gail's amazing work, see the Spinning Babies website.
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This all-day workshop is for doulas, childbirth educators, midwives, doctors, and others who work with birthing women. Beginning with basic information suddenly what seemed simple becomes profound as you begin to associate unexpected causative factors with labours you have wondered about. The spatial explanations and visual aids make the Spinning Babies Workshop so valuable. Even the experienced provider will bring home new techniques and understanding.
In the morning, we will have a pregnant volunteer to show us a series of pregnancy activities. You will have a chance to try the major techniques for fetal rotation with another participant in the class.
Dress for action. You will be moving and sometimes be on the floor. Bring a pillow, a birthing ball, a rebozo and your notebook. Bring a contribution of healthy food for a shared lunch, pack your own or visit a cafe on Magdalen Street, around the corner.
Whether you read the researchers that think fetal position is random or the researchers that find fetal position matters, these techniques shorten labours. You will see in your practice that these techniques help a good number of long labours, stalled labours and back labours.
More than Optimal Fetal Positioning, you also find body balancing techniques, traditional midwifery perspectives, and the spirit of the doula!
- Explore the effects of occiput posterior on the length of both pregnancy and labor
- See how to reduce the chance of a long, posterior labor in pregnancy with a live model (when available locally)
- Understand why a cesarean is necessary
- Define the difference between comfort measures and rotation techniques;
- Use the Mexican rebozo (scarf) in a variety of ways;
- Get out of your chair and try spinning techniques for
- latent phase
- active phase
- 2nd stage
- Identify foetal position without hands-on palpation (touch) and within the doula scope of practice with Belly Mapping as seen in the 2004 International Doula Magazine. (For tips on palpation, see 2011 Winter Midwifery Today)
- Comprehensive handouts and visual aids. This workshop is for the tactile learner!
Questions about Spinning Babies Workshops (from the Spinning Babies website)
Can I bring my baby?
Babies under three months are welcome when the mother and baby are well rested and happy. Four-month-old babies and older like to verbalize and can keep the audience more entertained than I can.
Seriously, though, others have come to hear the workshop. Mothers hear over their baby's talk, but others don't tune out babies as well. Please make arrangements for your children.
I haven't taken a doula training yet, can I come?
A doula training gives excellent beginning information that will make the Spinning Babies Workshop more valuable to the learner.
Childbirth education series are also valuable before this workshop. Childbirth teachers that attend an occasional birth will be able to follow the workshop material.
Birth experience is the best teacher. Less experience means you will miss some concepts and will experience more frustration with the level of material presented. Prepare yourself by knowing anatomy of birthing, fetal positioning, stages of labor, modern obstetrical interventions and why they are used, and natural birth as well as epidural use and cesarean. Additionally, you can browse the Spinning Babies Website.
I'm a parent, can I come?
Sometimes a pregnant woman or couple comes who have had a long or otherwise difficult previous labor due to a baby's posterior presentation. They realize that they will not 'get' most of the workshop but will get the techniques and general ideas of when to use them. If you really want to come to an all day workshop, please email Gail and let her know you want to come.
I'm a midwife, I probably know all this already, right?
You know some techniques; I know some techniques. The workshop is more than techniques. Most midwives learn quite a bit at the workshop. You'll learn "when to use what" more effectively and why some OP babies rotate and some do not. The soft tissue body balancing techniques will be so useful.
Want to reduce transports for babies that don't seem to fit? Or, sit up nights at long labors that wear you and the mother out? Would you be willing to start assisting mothers in pregnancy by teaching her a few activities to do before labor? Would you like a way to assess if a labor might be more challenging or not? The first hour will be boring, but will help you anyway. The next five hours will be useful and I promise, you will get to sleep more often over the rest of your midwifery career for having attended this workshop. In other words, you'll get a good return on your time!