Spinning Babies ONLINE Conference

Registration Now Open! To register for Spinning Babies ONLINE Conference click on the "Register Now!" link below. You will have access to the live streaming conference, as well as the recorded version of the main room of the conference until October, 25th 2016. The current schedule is posted below, but this is the keynote and lecture room of the conference and is subject to change at any time, at Spinning Babies discretion.

When: Friday, September 23rd 8am - Sunday, September 25 5pm

$205.00 REGULAR RATE Register before September 21, 11:59pm CST

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The main session room will be live streamed from Friday September 23rd – Sunday September 25th.

WEBINAR SCHEDULE

This schedule is subject to change at Spinning Babies discretion.

*Times are for Central Time Zone*

Breech Birth, Streamed Friday, Sept 23, 2016 

8:00 am- 10:00 am Upright Breech Theory with Jane Evans & Anke Reitter

8:00 am Mechanisms of Physiological Breech Birth Jane Evans, RM Identify three keystone observations to a spontaneous breech birth (a: Well progressing labor; b: Rotation that facilitate descent without delay; c: Color, tone, vitality of the cord.). Explain the benefit of kneeling maternal position for spontaneous breech cardinal movements. Have a clear understanding of the cardinal movements of a spontaneous breech birth. Compare hands-off ideology  vs. knowing the signs showing a need for hands-on intervention. Jane Evans is an independent midwife in the UK. She’s maintained safe breech birth skills during a time such skills were close to extinction in the National Health Services.

9:00 am Upright Breech Theory Anke Reitter, MD, FRCOG Apply the knowledge of new research to support the return of vaginal breech birth in select settings. Explain the appearance of normal, upright breech. Identify when it is safest to keep hands-off-the-breech in upright breech birth. Anke Reitter MD.PhD, Fetal Maternal Medicine Specialist at Krankenhaus Sachsenhausen, Germany. Dr. Anke Reitter, FRCOG, is a senior OBGYN in clinical practice in Frankfurt. Her special interest lies in breech, multiple pregnancies, high risk pregnancies and prenatal ultrasound. Since October 2014 she is the leading consultant of an obstetric department in a hospital in Frankfurt and is currently building up a breech service at her new workplace.

10:00 am – 10:30am Break

10:30 am – 11:00 am Illustrating Normal Birth Gail Tully Compare extension and flexion in the breech baby before labor begins. Identify breech cardinal movements of lateral flexion, rotation, and descent in the normal breech birth. Describe fetal and perineal characteristics of the flexed breech head before it is born. Visual review of what you just learned from experts Jane Evans and Anke Reitter.

11:00 am – 12:00 noon Precipitous Presentations in Breech Topics Adrienne C. Caldwell, BA, BS, NCBTMB, CPPMBT, COMT; Angelina Martinez Miranda, Traditional Midwife Identify a maternal anatomical soft tissue that can be lengthened or softened with a Breech Balancing technique to increase spontaneous or external cephalic version.

Phyllis Klaus, LMFT, LMSW; Reenact a MindBody technique that invites the mother to listen to her baby’s message as given by a breech presentation to help the mother prepare for cephalic conversion. Describe a traditional Mexican midwifery practice to keep breech birth safe in the village birth, or an emergency breech birth in any setting. Video of breech. Short breech birth film airs at noon.

Afternoon Upright Breech Skills – Social and Spatial Understanding for a Paradigm Shift

1:30 pm Upright Breech Skills Panel including; 

Dennis Hartung, MD, FACOG on informed consent and team building for breech. Describe conditions in which a US obstetrician faces to support vaginal breech birth.;

Nicole Morales, CPM, on the consequences of restricting midwifery rights to attend breech birth, and breech birthing parents on their experience.

Leslie Sedlak Compare a surprise home breech birth to a planned breech home birth.

2:30 pm – 3:00 pm Break

3:00 pm – 3:30 pm Illustrating Breech Complications Gail Tully, CPM Identify how a breech baby looks when it’s arms are stuck. Compare arms stuck over the inlet to an arm between the symphysis pubis. Describe perineal characteristics of the extended breech head before the head is born. A quick slideshow to prepare you for Anke Reitter’s presentation.

3:30 pm – 5:00 pm Managing Breech Complications & Hands-on Practice  Anke Reitter MD. PhD, Fetal Maternal Medicine Specialist at Krankenhaus Sachsenhausen, Germany. Explain the process of delayed descent with breech obstruction. Match which hand movements can rotate shoulders to free obstructed shoulders in an upright breech birth. Apply the knowledge of new research to select delivery solutions to flex the breech head when caught in the pelvis.

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Hands-on Practice with Dr. Reitter, (Jane Evans, Denny Hartung, and Gail Tully may facilitate extra small groups, not filmed). Bring your doll and plastic pelvis to reenact scenarios. Follow along at distance learning. We will have the camera on one group and the recording will have a better close up. (A recorded version is included in purchase and a link will be emailed after editing.)

Saturday, Sept 24, 2016 The Spinning Babies World Confluence

8:00 – 9:00 am Spinning Babies’ Place in the Birth World Penny Simkin, PT  What we know now, what we need to know and how the gap may be filled by the new Spinning Babies paradigm. List landmark innovations in the history of childbirth. Describe gaps in the current management of labor dystocia. Compare birth outcomes of Occiput Posterior and Occiput Anterior. Describe the potential impact of introducing physical theory and static and active stretch techniques for the “soft tissue pelvis” in the childbirth process. Identify Spinning Babies as a new approach in the history of childbirth concepts. Penny Simkin said to Gail, “Spinning Babies is the most exciting thing to come into the birth world for some time.”

9:00 – 10:00 am Maternal Movement Changes Pelvic Diameters Anke Reitter, MD, FRCOG Dr. Reitter’s recent research on maternal movements that open the pelvis and how this related to easing birth. Explain the rationale to provide upright birth- upright breech birth. Match which forward movements can increase which pelvic diameters for labor to progress easily. Apply the knowledge of new research to select maternal positions to enlarge pelvis diameters in a difficult birth situation.

10:30 – 11:00 am The Premise of Spinning Babies; Essential skills for the future of birth. Gail Tully, CPM Building on the previous two presentations, Gail relays how Spinning Babies goes beyond a force-based paradigm (Start Pitocin!) to a broader understanding of maternal physiology and anatomy and the key to easier birth. Compare the premise of Balance Before Force to mechanical precept of The 3 Ps; The Passenger, The Pelvis, and The Powers. Describe Spinning Babies as an approach to birth and birth preparation rather than a set of techniques. Differentiate between engagement needs in the android and platypelloid pelvises.

11:00 am – 11:15 am A Fascial Movement in Flexion and Extension for Pain Relief and Range of Motion, Marcello Windolph, Fasciatherapie experience, arising from the Denis Bois method.

11:15 am – 3:00 pm Break

3:30 – 5:00 pm Beyond Maternal Positioning for Posterior Presentation: Are we really still talking about pelvic rocking? Gail Tully, CPM This session examines the placement of the femur and the role of static stretch of pelvic muscles as potentials in resolving a stall due to persistent posterior presentation. Pelvic levels or stations and strategies. Differentiate between pelvic rocking for mobility and stretch sensor activated lengthening. Analyze the degrees of flexion/extension in the leg joint and its effect on the inlet in regards to fetal engagement. Compare crouching or child’s pose with flexion to Open-knee chest or Walcher’s with extension. Match maternal positions to open the level of the pelvis where an OP baby waits in a stalled labor.

Sunday, Sept 25, 2016 “Integration Day”

8:00 am Jeanne Ohm, DC: Great Expectations List three features of the salutogenic model of birth care. Name two goals in which chiropractic and birth practitioners share for perinatal care. Describe the salutogenic view of the physiology of dilation.

9:00 am Gail Tully: Integrating The Paradigm Change  Plan a prenatal Spinning Babies protocol that can be utilized in 10-20 minutes per office visit for all or most women in a provider practice. Utilize steps to lengthen (soften) maternal soft tissue structures for the intention of easing the external cephalic version, for making it easier or perhaps, no longer necessary. List contraindications for inversion in pregnancy. Identify pregnant symptoms indicating a likely need for professional referral.

10:00 – 11:30 Break

11:30 am Formal closing with all of us. Blessing of the Hands with you and Gail. No continuing education credit for the closing gathering.

2:00 – 5:00 pm Integrating Spinning Babies Into A Health System Gail Tully, CPM Short introduction to the afternoon.

Tammy Ryan, AdvCD/BDT(DONA) SpBT; Lorenza Holt, CD/BDT(DONA), SpBT List at least two comfort measures and two rotation techniques recommended by Spinning Babies. Describe when and why a doula might consult with the mother’s provider before suggesting a rotation technique. List at least two contraindications for when not to use a Spinning Babies technique. Write a script to introduce a Spinning Babies protocol or technique to a health care provider, for use with a pregnant or birthing woman.

Marya Molette, BSN, RN, SpBT; Plan a Spinning Babies integration for a healthcare system. Discuss how a nurse engages nurse colleagues in the use of Spinning Babies techniques.

Gail Tully, CPM, Launching the Integration. The inclusive model for Changing Birth on Earth©.  A concluding statement for the conference.