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As birth nears, you may want to explore Spinning Babies exercises to help your baby get into an optimal position. “Spinning Babies is an alternative approach used in pregnancy utilizing non-technological and natural interventions to encourage baby into the most favorable position entering the pelvis and through birth,” explained Brandi Fields, CNM, a certified nurse-midwife at OB Hospitalists of Ohio, part of Pediatrix® Medical Group. According to Fields, Spinning Babies offers several benefits, including helping with overall comfort during pregnancy, encouraging continued mobility, encouraging baby to descend and settle into the optimal position for labor and making labor smoother. Although evidence that Spinning Babies can reposition a breech baby is limited, “techniques can help encourage continued fetal descent to aid in cervical dilation and the progression of labor and fetal movement toward birth,” said Fields.
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