Bemidji, MN - Spinning Babies® Workshop w/ Nikki - Jun 5-6, 2024
Schedule
Wed Jun 05 2024 at 08:30 am to Thu Jun 06 2024 at 05:30 pm
UTC-05:00Location
Sanford Bemidji Medical Center (Bemidji, MN) | Bemidji, MN
Improve labor outcomes with a Spinning Babies® Workshop. Learn our physiological techniques that offer a complete system of birth preparation and labor ease concepts to improve labor with the baby's position.The 2-day workshop covers the same curriculum as the 1-day workshop at an easy-to-integrate pace with additional time for more hands-on practice. Feel confident in how to apply the Spinning Babies® approach to help birthing families in community, clinical, and hospital settings.
This course introduces the Spinning Babies® approach to pregnancy comfort, labor progress, and easier birth. We welcome all birth professionals—from the new doula to the highly experienced provider. Spinning Babies® presents a new perspective on the anatomy of fetal positioning and birth, and applies stretch and jiggle techniques for body balancing. After this workshop you will be able to:
Facilitate comfort in pregnancy and ease in childbirth for your clients
Improve fetal position without manipulation of the fetus
Identify issues faster; gentle actions to shorten a long labor or avoid a cesarean
Use less (or no) force to resolve malposition and labor dystocia
And much, much more!
Spinning Babies® Three PrinciplesSM, Three BalancesSM, and Pelvic Three Levels SolutionsSM offers the world’s first complete system of birth preparation and labor ease concepts using baby’s position. Physiological techniques change the effective size of the pelvis through the body’s own innate capacity to resolve or prevent labor dystocia.
What Makes This Workshop Special
Discounted pricing for participants from the indigenous community. Please contact the organizer or the Approved Trainer for information.
Who May Attend
We welcome all professionals who serve people in their pregnancy and birth. Ideal for midwives, nurses, nurse practitioners, doulas and childbirth educators. Also attended by obstetricians, family medicine doctors, prenatal yoga instructors, chiropractors, acupuncturists, massage therapists, perinatal case managers, and community health workers. Recommended for people new to Spinning Babies®, as well as those practiced in it for years. CEs are available for some participants, as noted in the Continuing Education section below.
Food and Refreshments
Snacks, coffee, and tea will be provided. We will take a 60-minute lunch break. Bring a lunch or go out with new friends.
Special Notes
Dress comfortably as we will be moving around and practicing techniques with each other. Bring a pillow or cushion to share during practice times. Please contact the organizer if you are able to supply a massage table for the workshop.
Hosted By
Andrea Lewis
[email protected]
Cancellation Policy
If you are not able to attend the workshop, you must notify the Spinning Babies® Approved Trainer or the organizer before the workshop begins. Refunds will not be granted without prior notification. If you need to cancel, please contact the Spinning Babies® Approved Trainer.
About the Trainer
Nikki Zerfas
Nikki Zerfas is an experienced Labor & Delivery nurse. She actively participates in the orientation and mentorship of new staff and works to bring educational opportunities to her colleagues, with emphasis on implementing physiology-based birth practices, continuous labor support, and emphasizing breastfeeding-friendly care of new families. She is especially focused on supporting physiological birth in complex medical situations. Nikki maintains her certifications in Electronic Fetal Monitoring and as an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant. She continues to work as a bedside nurse and enjoys bringing birth workers of all disciplines together in the goal of improving the care and outcomes of new families.
Continuing Education
Maternity House Publishing, Inc. (dba Spinning Babies®) is accredited as a provider of Nursing Continuing Professional Development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation (ANCC). This activity has been awarded 13 contact hours through ANCC.
The American Academy of Family Physicians has granted Spinning Babies® Workshop 13.0 Contact hours of Elective Continuing Medical Education credits for the two-day workshop
Many doula and childbirth education organizations accept these contact hours; check your organization’s policies.
Advanced Offerings
See our Spinning Babies® online course catalog for current list of virtual workshops and trainings.
The Spinning Babies® Workshop is the prerequisite for taking Spinning Babies® Integration Workshops, the Spinning Babies® Certified Parent Educator Training or Spinning Babies® Aware Practitioner Workshop. You can attend a Resolving Shoulder Dystocia and Breech Basics Workshops before you have attended a Spinning Babies® workshop, but we recommend you attend the Spinning Babies® workshop workshop first.
Terms of Use
This workshop does not provide a certification in Spinning Babies®️ only a document of attendance. Participants will not be able to use the name Spinning Babies® to describe their services, such as offering Spinning Babies®️, sessions, or saying “trained in Spinning Babies” after registering for or attending this workshop. Participants may use concepts and techniques introduced in the workshop in the participant’s practices. Further training is available for eligible participants which does lead towards a contractual relationship for listing or certification and use of Spinning Babies®️ brand and name.
Tax Exemption
If you are associated with an organization that is tax exempt, you will be able to indicate this on the payment page. If someone from your organization has submitted a tax exemption form to Spinning Babies®️ previously, please contact your organization to use a tax exemption form code. Otherwise, you can upload a .pdf version of your tax exemption form on the payment page and will be required to pay tax at time of purchase, but will be refunded if/when your form is accepted by Spinning Babies®️.
