Long Beach, CA - Spinning Babies® Foundational Workshop w/ Tema - October 20-21, 2026
Improve labor outcomes with a Spinning Babies® Foundational 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.
Spinning Babies® begins with fetal rotation to reveal the lesser-known physiology of birth anatomy. Your passion, our approach. Start seeing solutions in labor progress with this new lens on childbirth.
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 Principles SM, Three Balances SM, and Pelvic Levels Solutions SM 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.
Completing a Spinning Babies® Foundational Workshop is the prerequisite for our Spinning Babies® Integration Workshop and advanced training programs.
What Makes This Workshop Special
This hands-on workshop with an approved trainer offers real-time learning, personalized guidance, and confident skill-building in a supportive environment. You’re not just observing—you’re practicing, asking questions, and receiving immediate feedback from a trainer who has met rigorous standards and brings deep, practical experience to the work. This kind of immersive learning builds clarity, confidence, and competence, ensuring you leave not only informed, but truly prepared to apply what you’ve learned in the real world.
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 who have been practicing it for years.
CEs are available for some participants, as noted in the Continuing Education section.
Special Notes
Please bring a sheet, pillow and Yoga mat (if you have one). Also please wear comfortable clothing.
Public Host Information:
Host Name: Tema Mercado
Host Email: [email protected]
About the Trainer - Tema Mercado
Tema Mercado is a Midwife (LM, CPM), mother to six children and a grandmother. She believes that birth work can change the world and has dedicated the last 13 years to birth and reproductive justice on the U.S Mexico Border serving families on both sides of the border.\Spinning Babies® as a concept and practice came to Tema early on in her student midwife journey. She connected with Nicole Morales and through her mentorship, Tema began to view birth through a different lens. Spinning Babies® is a paradigm shift on how we understand and assist different forms of pregnancy discomfort. One of the fundamental approaches in this practice asks, ”where is the baby?” in relation to the levels of the pelvis. It decentralizes questions about cervix dilation which expands our capacity to support complications in births like labor dystocia, shoulder dystocia and breech birth. The expansiveness in Spinning Babies® and its commitment of restoring balance in pregnancy aligned with Tema’s ancestral midwifery knowledge that was passed down from her Partera ancestors. Tema feels honored to be part of a collective of people supporting the training. She looks forward to traveling and learning from her future Spinning Babies® workshop participants. If you are curious about the work Tema offers in the community, you can visit her website http://www.lamatrizbirth.com/ and her IG page @matrizmidwife.
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).
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® Foundational Workshop is the prerequisite for taking a Spinning Babies® Integration Workshop, the Spinning Babies® Certified Parent Educator Training or Spinning Babies® Aware Practitioner Training. Completing a Spinning Babies® Integration Workshop qualifies you to register for the online modules and assessments that enable you to become a Spinning Babies® Certified Birth Professional.
You can attend a Resolving Shoulder Dystocia and Breech Basics Workshop before you have attended a Spinning Babies® Foundational Workshop, but we recommend you attend the Spinning Babies® Foundational Workshop first.
Cancellation Policy
Refunds will be given in the form of payment if requested 45 days prior to start of workshop. Refund request less than 45 days until 10 days will forfeit 75% of registration fee. No refunds within 10 days of workshop unless extenuating circumstances approved by the trainer.
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®️.
Spinning Babies® begins with fetal rotation to reveal the lesser-known physiology of birth anatomy. Your passion, our approach. Start seeing solutions in labor progress with this new lens on childbirth.
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 Principles SM, Three Balances SM, and Pelvic Levels Solutions SM 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.
Completing a Spinning Babies® Foundational Workshop is the prerequisite for our Spinning Babies® Integration Workshop and advanced training programs.
What Makes This Workshop Special
This hands-on workshop with an approved trainer offers real-time learning, personalized guidance, and confident skill-building in a supportive environment. You’re not just observing—you’re practicing, asking questions, and receiving immediate feedback from a trainer who has met rigorous standards and brings deep, practical experience to the work. This kind of immersive learning builds clarity, confidence, and competence, ensuring you leave not only informed, but truly prepared to apply what you’ve learned in the real world.
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 who have been practicing it for years.
CEs are available for some participants, as noted in the Continuing Education section.
Special Notes
Please bring a sheet, pillow and Yoga mat (if you have one). Also please wear comfortable clothing.
Public Host Information:
Host Name: Tema Mercado
Host Email: [email protected]
About the Trainer - Tema Mercado
Tema Mercado is a Midwife (LM, CPM), mother to six children and a grandmother. She believes that birth work can change the world and has dedicated the last 13 years to birth and reproductive justice on the U.S Mexico Border serving families on both sides of the border.\Spinning Babies® as a concept and practice came to Tema early on in her student midwife journey. She connected with Nicole Morales and through her mentorship, Tema began to view birth through a different lens. Spinning Babies® is a paradigm shift on how we understand and assist different forms of pregnancy discomfort. One of the fundamental approaches in this practice asks, ”where is the baby?” in relation to the levels of the pelvis. It decentralizes questions about cervix dilation which expands our capacity to support complications in births like labor dystocia, shoulder dystocia and breech birth. The expansiveness in Spinning Babies® and its commitment of restoring balance in pregnancy aligned with Tema’s ancestral midwifery knowledge that was passed down from her Partera ancestors. Tema feels honored to be part of a collective of people supporting the training. She looks forward to traveling and learning from her future Spinning Babies® workshop participants. If you are curious about the work Tema offers in the community, you can visit her website http://www.lamatrizbirth.com/ and her IG page @matrizmidwife.
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).
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® Foundational Workshop is the prerequisite for taking a Spinning Babies® Integration Workshop, the Spinning Babies® Certified Parent Educator Training or Spinning Babies® Aware Practitioner Training. Completing a Spinning Babies® Integration Workshop qualifies you to register for the online modules and assessments that enable you to become a Spinning Babies® Certified Birth Professional.
You can attend a Resolving Shoulder Dystocia and Breech Basics Workshop before you have attended a Spinning Babies® Foundational Workshop, but we recommend you attend the Spinning Babies® Foundational Workshop first.
Cancellation Policy
Refunds will be given in the form of payment if requested 45 days prior to start of workshop. Refund request less than 45 days until 10 days will forfeit 75% of registration fee. No refunds within 10 days of workshop unless extenuating circumstances approved by the trainer.
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®️.
Where is it happening?
1635 E Anaheim St, Long Beach, CA 90813-3892, United States
Know what’s Happening Next — before everyone else does.
Host or PublisherSpinning Babies
