The Tennessee Initiative for Perinatal Quality Care (TIPQC) and Baptist Memorial Hospital for Women hosted a Spinning Babies workshop on Thursday, June 15 to raise awareness of birthing autonomy and positioning. Participants from several facilities attended the workshop, including Jackson-Madison County General Hospital, St. Francis Hospital-Memphis and independent doulas.
Spinning Babies Trainer and Aware Practitioner Emma Moreland, CPM, introduced different positioning and the Spinning Babies code of Physiology Before Force, recognizing medical interventions may be necessary, but only after body-based techniques are tried.
Dr. Riad Homsi attended the workshop to help further Baptist Women’s Hospital’s quality initiative of lowering cesarean section rates among the NTSV population – first delivery, at 37 weeks or greater gestation, with single baby in vertex position (no breech or transverse positions).
Goals of the Spinning Babies workshop are to help with facilitating comfort in pregnancy and ease in childbirth, identifying and applying techniques to reduce long labors or cesarean sections, and offering fresh solutions for long and/or posterior labor, labor dystocia and labor pain.
