Fetal position is a crucial yet often overlooked factor in the birthing process. Understanding how a baby’s orientation within the uterus can impact labor and delivery is key to facilitating a more comfortable and empowered birth experience.
Gail Tully, the visionary founder of Spinning Babies®, has dedicated her life’s work to revolutionizing the way we approach childbirth. As a midwife and birth advocate, Gail’s groundbreaking techniques have transformed the lives of countless families, empowering them to embrace the natural rhythms of the body.
Tune in as Gail shares her personal journey, the development of the Spinning Babies® approach, fetal rotation, maternal positioning, and the importance of accessibility in birth education.
Episode Highlights:
03:48 Meet Gail
06:55 Empowerment Through Natural Birth
18:26 Challenges and Discoveries in Childbirth
23:09 The Development of Spinning Babies®
30:20 Impact and Accessibility of Spinning Babies®
34:40 Trainings and Certifications
37:15 Meeting the Evolving Needs of the Birth Community
About Gail:
Gail Tully is the midwife who conceived and developed Spinning Babies®. Spinning Babies® went online in 2001. Over 40 years with birth including 20 years as a homebirth midwife, Gail now writes, teaches, and supports change in the birth paradigm.
Back in the day, Gail was kept busy organizing doula program development in hospitals and community non-profits in Minneapolis/St. Paul while training doulas with DONA International approval status.
Gail Tully developed the concepts and curriculum that revolutionized our view on the physiological breech. Spinning Babies®, Belly Mapping®, Belly Mapping MethodTM, Resolving Shoulder Dystocia*, and Breech Basics* are Gail Tully originals.
“There are two layers of Spinning Babies®, it is restoring function to the body whether through pregnancy exercises or body balancing techniques, which a pregnant person can do themselves or the nurse, midwife, or doula at the time of labor. And the more you do ahead of time, the less you need to do anything at labor.” –Gail Tully