Help Baby Rotate + Drop

As you all know, I was traveling and stayed in Vegas recently for a baby. This was @bellcohan 4th baby and all her babies have been born at home. I can not even begin to tell you what an honor it is to have been her doula for all of her amazing children.

Jess always tends to carry high and her babes normally don’t drop until labor. She also likes her babies to cook and get to 40 weeks or more. We hiked Red Rock to use gravity to get this boy a little lower (if you are ever in Vegas it’s a beautiful spot to hike) next we did the Miles Circuit. The point of the Circuit is to help your pelvis open up to give your baby room to rotate and/or move down.

Here is how you do it:

1st - Start with your knees on the ground and your chest on the floor with your butt up in the air. Your partner or doula can jiggle your hips with their hands or a rebozo (like I’m doing in the photo) this helps relax all the ligaments and release any tightness or tension in the abdomen or pelvis area.
2nd - Do extended side-lying with the top knee supported by a stack of pillows or peanut ball and the back leg straight behind.
3rd - Lunge front and sideways and do some curb walking and then roll your hips out on a birth ball, standing, or dancing.

Lastly, I ended it with a castor oil clary sage belly massage (don’t recommend doing this part until 40 weeks or in early labor). You can start doing the circuit at 37 weeks beginning with 10 min and then working your way up to a 90 min circuit 😅 (doing each in the series for 30 min). Not gonna lie, most don’t do 90 min!

You can read more about @spinningbabies or google “the miles circuit”

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Lori