Spinning Babies Breech Birth Quick Guide
Gail Tully
This 20-page guide describes both normal and stuck breeches and discusses what to do for birth in the all-fours position. Please note, only the most common issues of rotation and descent—or lack of rotation and descent—are described.
Midwifery Today Issue 117
Theme: 30th Anniversary, Celebrating Midwifery
We are pleased to be able to celebrate Midwifery Today’s 30-year anniversary with our readers for the Spring 2016 issue. To celebrate midwifery, we chose thirteen of our favorite articles from thirteen of our most loyal and devoted writers and reprinted them in this anniversary edition. You will be able to read from the best of the best, including Ina May Gaskin, Penny Simkin, Michel Odent, Robin Lim, Sister MorningStar, Gail Tully, Elizabeth Davis and others, as we continue to provide you with only the best and evidence-based information surrounding childbirth. This issue also features some great new articles, including one about institutional biases in birth research—a must read! As an additional way to celebrate our readers and writers, we are pleased to announce that this issue will have our first ever color cover. Here’s to 30 more years!
Midwifery Today Issue 114
Theme: Posterior
Our readers often say that Midwifery Today is one of their favorite magazines because they learn essential midwifery skills—such as how to handle a posterior presentation—from each issue. This issue is filled with wisdom from Michel Odent, Sister MorningStar, Elizabeth Davis, Gail Tully and other midwives and doulas regarding posterior babies and how to handle them. Other subjects, such as global midwifery models and wise nutrition during pregnancy, are covered as well. Get ready to grab a hot mug of tea and your newest issue of Midwifery Today, and settle in for a nice afternoon of reading and learning.
Midwifery Today Issue 106
Theme: Third Stage
As UK midwife Jane Evans says, breech birth is unusual, but it is not abnormal. For many mothers, a breech baby automatically means a cesarean. What has happened to cause vaginal breech birth to be a disappearing phenomenon? In this issue of Midwifery Today, readers will be educated on breech skills, such as how to resolve obstructed breech birth, by Gail Tully. Seven mothers share their own experiences in a special section dedicated to breech birth stories. Along with more breech information from experts like Michel Odent and Cornelia Enning, prenatal nutrition and the important topic of microbes are discussed.
Midwifery Today Issue 103
Theme: Shoulder Dystocia
The theme of Midwifery Today Issue 103 is Shoulder Dystocia. It is always beneficial to hone our skills in whatever field of work we find ourselves. Fortunately, this issue of Midwifery Today iwill benefit many childbirth professionals by providing knowledge and insights into shoulder dystocia. Among the wonderful contributors to this issue is Ina May Gaskin, who retells the story of how she came to learn a simple skill that is now known as the “Gaskin maneuver.” Gail Tully, another shoulder dystocia expert, has provided not one, but two articles for this edition of Midwifery Today magazine—both of which will be valuable sources of reference for many of our readers.
Spinning Babies Parent Class DVD
Gail Tully
Join six couples as they learn why Spinning Babies works and how it can enhance your labor and birth. The DVD includes real consultations with two of the couples, one with a breech baby and one with a baby in a transverse lie.
Daily Essentials DVD
Gail Tully
Daily Essentials is a unique instructional video that will show you how to be more comfortable during your pregnancy while preparing your pelvic muscles, joints and ligaments for the actual birth.
Gail Tully, known for her work with Spinning Babies’ workshops, teaches us lessons on breech via a twin birth story.
Gail Tully offers insight into shoulder dystocia complications by informing on how important it is to look for the placement of the arm.
Read more…. Arm Behind the Back: A Shoulder Dystocia Complication
by Gail Tully, Midwife First publishing 8-13-26 I’m grateful to be invited by Midwifery Today to refresh an article I wrote long ago. Being a CPM, a doula, and doula trainer gave me a wide range of experiences serving families in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. In 1992, I founded The Childbirth Collective, a nonprofit doula networking… Read more…. The Doula’s Contribution to Newborn Physiology
Join Us as Midwifery Today celebrates turning 40! We are celebrating all of the ways that Midwifery Today has shifted the paradigm of birth and continues to move with the times and represent the work of midwifery, today. We will have speakers from all walks of life and multiple countries to fill our minds with… Read more…. Online Conference 2026
Photo by Julien Pouplard
Looking out of the door of my hut in Acholiland, northern Uganda, I could see a tree spreading its branches out underneath a cloudy sky. The red earth was wet, everything was green and growing, and cheeping chicks were trailing around after mother hens as roosters crowed. It was the rainy season. Read more…. Resolving Shoulder Dystocia with the Gaskin Maneuver or McRoberts Maneuver
