Optimal Foetal charting and positioning using Spinning Babies® approach
Materials:
I share in a one-on-one session of about 1 hour information and techniques I learnt attending a Spinning Babies® workshop with Jennifer Walker.
Why do Optimal Foetal Positioning?
It is important to understand why optimal foetal positioning can affect you in your pregnancy as well as your birth. We start off by discovering and mapping where their baby is within the pelvis and encouraging positions that may help open the level of the pelvis where the baby is at.
When we are able to create balance in the pelvis, we bring not only ease and comfort to the pregnant body but we also create space for the baby to innately follow their own instinct to find an optimal position within the womb.
Common labour difficulties such as posterior position, asynclitism, and deep transverse arrest can be addressed and may be relieved using various physiologic techniques.
If a baby is breech (head up) there are several techniques that can be used to create balance in the pelvis therefore creating space that can enable baby to turn with more ease.
Part of assisting with positioning of baby and comfort for mothers/parents, I also illustrate how to do various other Spinning Babies daily exercises and movements including using the Rebozo for sifting the pelvis, forward-leaning inversion, followed by side-lying release and finally abdominal or standing myofascial release.
Benefits of OFP:
- Pain may decrease and comfort may increase
- Baby may turn into a more optimal position for birth or to where there is more space in the pelvis
- Baby’s position may change allowing the head to tuck in and create a smaller head circumference
- Pelvic bones may open wider allowing baby to engage further or find a better position for birth
- Medical interventions may decrease or be more effective
Suggestions:
These techniques should be learnt and done from 20 weeks of gestation till birth. They can also be done during birth should positional issues arise during the labour.
