Private

Spinning Babies®

Birth Preparation Class

Includes:

  • In-home, 2 1/2- hour Spinning Babies® Birth Preparation Class

  • Pregnancy and childbirth anatomy

  • Understanding how Balance, Gravity, and Movement℠ change the birth experience

  • Learning the Cardinal Movements that baby makes to navigate the pelvis during labor

  • Recognizing different labor patterns and learning ways to open the inlet, outlet, and mid pelvis

  • Daily activities to help prepare the pregnant body for birth

  • How to identify Invitations to Act during labor where different positions might be helpful in creating space for baby

  • Maintaining balance through Rest Smart℠ techniques

  • The Three Balances℠

  • Introduction to bonding with your baby through Belly Mapping

  • Love and connection, above all else

This private class is taught by Bethany Griffin-Shetler, an experienced birth & postpartum doula, childbirth educator, lactation counselor, and Spinning Babies® Certified Parent Educator.

The investment is $163.

We will meet in the privacy and comfort of your own home to learn about the incredibly powerful pregnant body! As we do that, we’ll learn simple ways to lengthen and soften the muscles and ligaments that support the uterus, pelvis, and the rest of the pregnant body. This lengthening and softening creates space inside the pelvis for your baby to navigate the birth process with ease and comfort for both of you!

But these techniques are not just about labor and birth. They are also designed to create comfort during pregnancy and to help alleviate some common pregnancy discomforts, such as sciatica pain, back pain, tightness, and pressure throughout the body.

We’ll also learn about Belly Mapping, a beautiful opportunity to begin to interact with your baby through the womb and begin to understand how they move and where they like to hang out, which not only encourages bonding but also provides some really valuable insight into where tightness or imbalance in the parent’s body might be — let’s address those places through Spinning Babies® techniques!

I bring all materials to your door and even leave you with a few fun items to continue using on your own everyday throughout pregnancy and maybe even after delivery!

This is not a traditional birth class, but a very specific hands-on, whole body approach to preparing for labor. To learn more about the stages of labor, common interventions, advocacy skills, other types of comfort support for labor, and to build community with others on the same journey, please join us for our Silver Creek Birth Class in Silverton!