Well Adjusted Birth

Body Ready Method is hosting a FREE workshop next week. Lindsay is an amazing PT who is transforming birth practices. Don’t miss out!

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Better Birth Pro 2024 - Body Ready Method Free live virtual training series for birth professionals Better Birth Pro Series Revolutionize birth outcomes with cutting edge tools Shift the paradigm of prenatal prep and birth support *Replay access included until June 9th Become the birth pro your clients need: Join Lindsay McCoy for FREE for....

Words can’t express the amazing weekend I spent with the prenatal and pediatric chiropractors of the ICPA. These incredible people make me want to step up my game and serve even more. Thank you for inspiring me, humbling me, and loving me this weekend. You truly are the best of the best!

I had the honor of talking with Lindsay McCoy recently on her podcast and it was phenomenal! We talk about all things birth including compound presentations, the nervous system, and the long term effects of birth trauma.

Birthing Wisdom: Deciphering Compound Presentations Kristen Hosaka of Well Adjusted Birth joins us to talk all things compound presentations including their impact on the birthing process.

Adjusting for Birth: Maternal Biomechanics and the Effects of Fetal Positioning This course builds on the techniques learned in the Webster Technique Certification and the Advanced Perinatal Clinical Application courses to further hone skills for adjusting during pregnancy and labor. Explore maternal biomechanics and how it may relate to fetal presentations including OP, nuchal...

Are you a midwife, doula, chiropractor, L&D nurse or other birth professional wanting to learn more about what you can do when labor isn’t progressing or is excessively painful for your client?

Would you like to learn ways to help your clients better prepare for birth?

Have you ever wished you’d known there was a hand presentation prior to labor or suspected a hand but didn’t know how to help correct it?

Was labor ever off but you couldn’t pinpoint why or how?

Do you want to learn fascial techniques to empower and balance your clients through their pregnancies?

I’ve been there looking for better ways to identify issues before they became a problem. I’ve cried over births that didn’t go as well as I thought they should have. I’ve looked for answers and found ways to help prevent birth trauma.

If this sounds like something you’d like to learn more about, join me in learning how to identify and prevent various dystocias prior to and during labor to empower an easier, better birth for your clients and their babies.

Dynamic Body Balancing Level 3, developed by Dr Carol Phillips, is coming to DFW July 15-17. Dr Carol developed the Side Lying Release and Forward Leaning Inversions while working with Gail Tully. These techniques and many more will be taught in Level 3. And as a bonus, Levels 1-3 are part of the Spinning Babies Aware Practitioner tract.

Register here. There are only a few spaces left.

Welcome to Dynamic Body Balancing - Craniosacral Therapy Dr. Carol Phillips Workshop Registration: appointment.com/dbb [email protected] 25310 Olinda Trail Lindstrom, MN 55045

Dynamic Body Balancing is coming back to Texas in January!

Learn fascial unwinding techniques emphasizing cranial work, pediatrics, and pregnancy with simple techniques you can put to use immediately.

www.dynamicbodybalancing.com

Welcome to Dynamic Body Balancing - Craniosacral Therapy Dr. Carol Phillips Workshop Registration: appointment.com/dbb [email protected] 25310 Olinda Trail Lindstrom, MN 55045

I’m so excited to finally have my Nuchal Hands class available online!! Check it out at welladjustedbirth.com

Changing Births Changing Lives Resources for chiropractors supporting clients in pregnancy, labor, & birth. Online & in person classes available to bring chiropractors to the next level.

The class recording is available until March 7. Check out how to detect and correct Nuchal hand presentations prior to and during labor.

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Recording of Exploring Nuchal Hands Recorded Zoom class - Exploring ways to identify and correct Nuchal Hand presentations through bodywork prior to labor.

When Psoas minor isn’t minor...

I recently had the honor of working with an amazing midwife during an ECV. As she was gently helping baby rotate, she ran into a “ledge” in the upper abdomen that baby just couldn’t get past. I wasn’t exactly sure at the time what anatomical strut was preventing rotation past that point but I could feel a band just under the head. As I gently worked the fascia in the area, the band softened and baby’s head rotated as soon as it released. It was a beautiful collaboration!

A few days later, I get a text from the woman asking what could be wrong since she started having pain in her anterior thigh after the ECV. Hmmm could she have a Psoas minor?

On the next visit, palpation definitely indicated the presence of P minor on the left. Baby was also kicking on the left indicating an RO position. We discussed the possibility that baby may be born posterior as she might be unable to rotate around Psoas minor. Sure enough, baby was born straight up OP a few days later.

https://www.medpagetoday.com/publichealthpolicy/ethics/84392

Informed Consent: Docs Should Ask Permission to Touch It's 2020, and no, it's not implied by patient's mere presence in exam room

Well Adjusted Birth updated their address.

Planète Santé on Twitter “Pourquoi les femmes accouchent-elles majoritairement allongées sur le dos, alors que la position "optimale" pour la descente de l'enfant n'est peut-être pas celle-là ? Réponse du Dr David Desseauve (), lauréat du Prix Scientifique Leenaards. https://t.co/hdK39CaW0v”

Birth has always held a sense of mystery.

The baby was seen as just something on the inside and didn’t seem to play much of a part in the process.

Thank goodness that paradigm is shifting. But what can we see from the outside?

What if there was a way to feel what was going on inside from the outside?

What if there was a way to feel that baby wasn’t in just the right position during labor?

What if the mother’s body held those clues?

Guess what? The sacrum of the laboring person can help reveal what is going on with the baby’s position on the inside.

The baby affects the position and motion of the sacrum during labor.

Stay tuned for more.

The understanding of the birth process must change in our society. The status quo maintains that babies come when babies come and there isn’t anything that can be done from the outside to change that. The baby isn’t seen from the outside and stays hidden during the birth process. The baby is being birthed and is not seen as an integral part of the process.

However, as the paradigm shifts, we see that the baby’s position in utero is an integral part of the birth process. Baby’s position can dictate if the mother will easily go into labor or not. The position, movements, and ease of the baby can start and stop contractions in some cases.

I recently witnessed this process after my clients waters began to flow yet no contractions were present. Her body was recognizing that her baby was not in a good place for birth.

There was pain in places there “shouldn’t be”.

The baby was not moving as easily but her stats were good.

Baby was stuck in a less than optimal position. Pain points suggested a nuchal hand.

Baby’s position was preventing contractions and her mother’s innate intelligence recognized this and honored that her baby wasn’t ready.

We worked to change the biomechanics of the mother...to create space...to create more ease and baby utilized this opportunity to find a more comfortable position.

Contractions started. Labor started as baby shifted into a better place.

Mother and baby worked as a team together in an intimate dance responding to each other through the night.

The process of birth must be reborn as a team process taking into account both the birthing person and the person being birthed.

Their biomechanics work together when balance and ease are present.

Fascinating study discussing the evolution of the female pelvis and birth process.

Reconstructing birth in Australopithecus sediba Hominin birth mechanics have been examined and debated from limited and often fragmentary fossil pelvic material. Some have proposed that birth in the early hominin genus Australopithecus was relatively easy and ape-like, while others have argued for a more complex, human-like birth mechanism in aus...