Improve labor outcomes with a Spinning Babies® Foundational Workshop. Learn our physiological techniques that offer a complete system of birth preparation and labor ease concepts to improve labor with the baby's position.
The 2-day workshop covers the same curriculum as the 1-day workshop at an easy-to-integrate pace with additional time for more hands-on practice. Feel confident in how to apply the Spinning Babies® approach to help birthing families in community, clinical, and hospital settings.
Spinning Babies® begins with fetal rotation to reveal the lesser-known physiology of birth anatomy. Your passion, our approach. Start seeing solutions in labor progress with this new lens on childbirth.
After this workshop you will be able to:
Facilitate comfort in pregnancy and ease in childbirth for your clients
Improve fetal position without manipulation of the fetus
Identify issues faster; gentle actions to shorten a long labor or avoid a cesarean
Use less (or no) force to resolve malposition and labor dystocia
And much, much more!
Spinning Babies® Three Principles SM, Three Balances SM, and Pelvic Levels Solutions SM offers the world’s first complete system of birth preparation and labor ease concepts using baby’s position. Physiological techniques change the effective size of the pelvis through the body’s own innate capacity to resolve or prevent labor dystocia.
Completing a Spinning Babies® Foundational Workshop is the prerequisite for our Spinning Babies® Integration Workshop and advanced training programs.
What Makes This Workshop Special
The 2 Day workshop includes everything the 1 Day workshops includes and more. The 2 day workshop allows you to take in the Spinning Babies paradigm at a slower embodied pace. Extra time allows us to critically think about scenarios and how to best apply techniques.
Who May Attend
We welcome all professionals who serve people in their pregnancy and birth. Ideal for midwives, nurses, nurse practitioners, doulas, and childbirth educators. Also attended by obstetricians, family medicine doctors, prenatal yoga instructors, chiropractors, acupuncturists, massage therapists, perinatal case managers, and community health workers. Recommended for people new to Spinning Babies®, as well as those who have been practicing it for years.
CEs are available for some participants, as noted in the Continuing Education section.
Please contact the organizer if you are able to supply a massage table for the workshop.
Host Name: Nubia Martin
Host Email:
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Cancellation Policy
If you are not able to attend the workshop, you must notify the Spinning Babies® Approved Trainer or the organizer before the workshop begins. Refunds will not be granted without prior notification. If you need to cancel, please contact the Spinning Babies® Approved Trainer.
About the Trainer: Tema Mercado
Tema Mercado is a Midwife (LM, CPM), mother to six children and a grandmother. She believes that birth work can change the world and has dedicated the last 13 years to birth and reproductive justice on the U.S Mexico Border serving families on both sides of the border.\Spinning Babies® as a concept and practice came to Tema early on in her student midwife journey. She connected with Nicole Morales and through her mentorship, Tema began to view birth through a different lens.Spinning Babies® is a paradigm shift on how we understand and assist different forms of pregnancy discomfort. One of the fundamental approaches in this practice asks,” where is the baby?” in relation to the levels of the pelvis. It decentralizes questions about cervix dilation which expands our capacity to support complications in births like labor dystocia, shoulder dystocia and breech birth. The expansiveness in Spinning Babies® and its commitment of restoring balance in pregnancy aligned with Tema’s ancestral midwifery knowledge that was passed down from her Partera ancestors. Tema feels honored to be part of a collective of people supporting the training. She looks forward to traveling and learning from her future Spinning Babies® workshop participants. If you are curious about the work Tema offers in the community, you can visit her website
http://www.lamatrizbirth.com/ and her IG page @matrizmidwife.
Continuing Education
Maternity House Publishing, Inc. (dba Spinning Babies®) is accredited as a provider of Nursing Continuing Professional Development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation (ANCC). The American Academy of Family Physicians has granted Spinning Babies® Workshop 7.0 Contact hours of Elective Continuing Medical Education credits for the One-day workshop.
Many doula and childbirth education organizations accept these contact hours; check your organization’s policies.
Advanced Offerings
The Spinning Babies® Foundational Workshop is the prerequisite for taking a Spinning Babies® Integration Workshop, the Spinning Babies® Certified Parent Educator Training or Spinning Babies® Aware Practitioner Training. Completing a Spinning Babies® Integration Workshop qualifies you to register for the online modules and assessments that enable you to become a Spinning Babies® Certified Birth Professional.
You can attend a Resolving Shoulder Dystocia and Breech Basics Workshop before you have attended a Spinning Babies® Foundational Workshop, but we recommend you attend the Spinning Babies® Foundational Workshop first.
Terms of Use
This workshop does not provide a certification in Spinning Babies®️ only a document of attendance. Participants will not be able to use the name Spinning Babies® to describe their services, such as offering Spinning Babies®️, sessions, or saying “trained in Spinning Babies” after registering for or attending this workshop. Participants may use concepts and techniques introduced in the workshop in the participant’s practices. Further training is available for eligible participants which does lead towards a contractual relationship for listing or certification and use of Spinning Babies®️ brand and name.
Tax Exemption
If you are associated with an organization that is tax exempt, you will be able to indicate this on the payment page. If someone from your organization has submitted a tax exemption form to Spinning Babies®️ previously, please contact your organization to use a tax exemption form code. Otherwise, you can upload a .pdf version of your tax exemption form on the payment page and will be required to pay tax at time of purchase, but will be refunded if/when your form is accepted by Spinning Babies®️.
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