{"id":23899,"date":"2023-01-17T07:00:25","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T07:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updates-www.mccdn.io\/vitals\/?p=23899"},"modified":"2023-12-26T21:39:15","modified_gmt":"2023-12-26T21:39:15","slug":"spinning-babies-birthing-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/updates-www.mccdn.io\/vitals\/spinning-babies-birthing-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Empowering parents and finding comfort in labor through Spinning Babies\u00ae","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"

Spinning Babies\u00ae <\/sup>doesn\u2019t sound like your typical childbirth class. But then again, it isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

The methodology focuses on a physiological approach to caring for the body in pregnancy and preparing for birth, explains Laura Kaiser, RN, BSN, C-EFM, with the MultiCare Deaconess Hospital Family Birth Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Kaiser, a Spinning Babies\u00ae <\/sup><\/a>Certified Parent Educator, says traditional childbirth classes focus on the birth process, preparing for the hospital and possible interventions, while Spinning Babies\u00ae<\/sup> instead centers on becoming familiar with the body and how to support what it\u2019s naturally meant to do.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn childbirth, the baby spins through the pelvis like a key turning through a lock,\u201d she says. \u201cThis approach helps empower parents to take action early, throughout the whole pregnancy and in labor to help find movement and flexibility in the pelvis and bring ease and comfort in that process.\u201d<\/p>\n

Spinning Babies\u00ae <\/sup>methods are meant to be used no matter where you\u2019re birthing \u2014 home, hospital, in a car or wherever, she adds.<\/p>\n

Kaiser, who\u2019s been a nurse at Deaconess for nearly four years, is taking her prior experience as an art and health sciences teacher into her new role as a childbirth class instructor.<\/p>\n

\u201cSomewhere along my labor and delivery journey, I became very passionate about physiological birth and helping parents move and position themselves to help the baby descend,\u201d she says. \u201cI saw firsthand how I could do a maneuver that would result in a huge change in what the baby was doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the Inland Northwest is home to a couple Spinning Babies\u00ae<\/sup> Certified Parent Educators, Kaiser will be the only hospital-based instructor, bringing more options to expectant parents looking for a different approach in their pregnancy journey.<\/p>\n

The one-time, three-hour class begins with a deeper understanding of pelvic and birth anatomy, how it flexes and connects with the body, she says. It then dives into actionable insights, including:<\/p>\n