“Know the pelvis like your sock drawer on a dark night at midnight and you’ll know what birth position will make room in the pelvis."

— Gail Tully

Thanks to generous sponsorship from the Willamette Health Council and Compass Perinatal Family & Community Support, we are pleased to open our Silver Creek Birth class and our Spinning Babies Class® at no cost to our local community beginning this spring — from April 2025 to April 2026!

Upcoming Class Dates:

May 17, 2025

June 28, 2025

What is Spinning Babies®? 

Spinning Babies® is an approach for ease and comfort in pregnancy and childbirth.

When we understand that fetal positions are not random, we realize that babies fit into the space available. Yet, thinking of the size of the baby or the pelvis is not enough. Birth anatomy can be flexible. Both the uterus and the pelvis have more available room when the muscles and other soft tissues are balanced. And that is what the Spinning Babies® approach is all about!

With Spinning Babies®, we begin to notice the ways our bodies behave, where there is tightness and tension, and where there is room to expand. We learn very simple techniques that help awaken and relax the fascia, the spiderweb-like tissue that runs throughout the body, between all of your muscles and organs, and that weave through the pregnant belly. We lovingly lengthen and soften the muscles and ligaments that connect to the pelvis. This creates space for the baby to wriggle and mould into the best birth position that they possibly can.

When you discover that strength in birth is not about force, but about softness, THAT is where your power will be!

Let’s create space together!

Spinning Babies®

Birth Preparation

Group Class

Includes:

  • 4 - 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 group class is taught by Bethany Griffin-Shetler and Becky Gilliam, experienced doulas, childbirth educators, and Spinning Babies® Certified Parent Educators.

This is not a traditional birth class, but a very specific hands-on, whole body approach to preparing for labor. During this class, we teach you some very easy-to-do at-home daily activities that can help lengthen and soften the ligaments and muscles that attach to the pelvis. By practicing these daily during pregnancy, the baby is able to find more room to move into an optimal birthing position. At the same time, more comfort is found in the pregnant body, especially in those last weeks and months when your baby is getting so big and your belly is making daily life even more challenging! Issues like sciatica, back pain, tightness, and soreness are often decreased by those who use these techniques daily.

We’ll also prepare you and your support person to notice how your body works in labor and how your baby moves through the pelvis in order to get born. When labor stalls or is going on a long time, when the baby is not in a great position for birth, when there is a lot of back pain or pain in one area of the body, etc., these can be “invitations to act,” which means there are specific techniques we can use — even during labor! — to continue to help the body soften and lengthen and to help your baby find that space in the pelvis!

Class size is limited to ensure your instructors are able to work with each person individually and to help partners learn to support these techniques with confidence, both during pregnancy and in labor. Practicing Spinning Babies® during pregnancy can become a wonderful and simple way to help your partner connect with you, your pregnancy, and your baby. And it certainly helps you connect with yourself. At the end of it all, it’s about love.

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!