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Speaking at AWHONN NYC · Supporting the Spinning Babies® Approach · In collaboration with LINET.

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18/06/2026

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Hari ini di acara ICM, saya berkesempatan nyobain bed persalinan masa depan! Luar biasa! Karena jujur bed ini sangat menguntungkan baik untuk klien (ibu lahiran), dan bahkan untuk bidannya! Karena sangat memudahkan dan meringankan kerjaan bidan.
Bednya bisa dipake buat rebozo, goyang panggul, bahkan berbagai posisi lahiran pun bisa difasilitasi.
Ini akan jadi wishlist ku! Semoga suatu saat klinik Bidan Kita bisa beli bed ini.
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Today at ICM, I had the chance to try out the birthing bed of the future! Incredible! Because honestly, this bed is such a benefit – both for the client (the birthing mother) and even for the midwife! Because it makes a midwife’s work so much easier and lighter.
The bed can be used for jiggles, pelvic rocking, and it can even facilitate a wide variety of birthing positions.
This is going on my wishlist! I hope that one day the Bidan Kita clinic can get this bed.
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📍 ICM Triennial Congress, Lisbon ·

Your pelvis knows more than one rhythm.Birth isn’t static and neither is your pelvis.Vibwife is the world’s first birth ...
10/06/2026

Your pelvis knows more than one rhythm.

Birth isn’t static and neither is your pelvis.

Vibwife is the world’s first birth mobility system, bringing gentle movement into labour, even when walking, changing positions, or resting becomes difficult.

Here are four movement patterns you can explore:

1️⃣ *Infinite Harmony*
Inspired by the natural figure-eight movement your pelvis makes while walking.

When you’re kneeling with your upper body fully supported by a beanbag, or birth ball, your pelvis can move with greater freedom. Many women describe this movement as especially soothing for lower back discomfort.

This figure-eight motion can be used in almost any birth position and was the most frequently chosen movement pattern in our clinical study (Monod et al. 2021).

2️⃣ *Vibrations & Jiggle*

Helps relax your muscles, fascia, and ligaments - including tissues you cannot consciously tense and release.

In the soft setting, the movement is similar to “The Jiggle” described by Spinning Babies®️. The gentle oscillations travel through your body and may support relaxation and nervous system regulation.

In the stronger setting, it resembles “Shaking the Apple Tree” 🍎🍏 - a rhythmic technique used by midwives around the world to encourage relaxation and release tension throughout the body.

In our clinical study, more than 90% of mothers reported feeling relaxed while using Vibwife (Monod et al. 2021).

3️⃣ *Sleeping Beauty*
Designed for side-lying positions.

Even while resting, Vibwife gently changes the angle and orientation of your pelvis through slow, continuous movement. This allows mobility to continue during long labours when conserving energy becomes important.

Especially during longer births, it can help you rest without becoming completely still.

4️⃣ *Rocking Baby*
Inspired by traditional mobilization techniques such as the Mexican rebozo.

This gentle movement creates asymmetry in your pelvis, helping create space in the midpelvis - one of the narrowest spaces your baby navigates during birth.

CONTINUING IN THE COMMENT

09/06/2026

What's actually happening in your body: Tiny shifts side to side. Like stair-walking, but in micro.

Your pelvis isn't one solid bone. It's a ring of three joints — two at the back where your sacrum meets your hip bones, one at the front. Those joints can shift, tilt, and open. But only when one side moves differently from the other.

That's asymmetry. And it's the secret most birth positions are quietly working toward.

When you stay perfectly still — flat on your back, frozen through a contraction — both sides of your pelvis stay locked at the same angle. There's no room being made.

When you add a slow, rocking, side-to-side micro-movement:

✔ One sit bone drops, the other lifts
✔ The sacrum gets to nutate and counter-nutate (a tiny tilt that opens the inlet, then the outlet)
✔ The pelvic ring widens in a different spot with every shift
✔ Fascia and ligaments soften around the rhythm instead of bracing against stillness

For your baby, that means a moving target to descend into — a pelvis that's actively making space, instead of one that's holding a single shape. Babies rotate and tuck their chin in response to that asymmetry. It's how they navigate down.

For your labor, that means the rhythm does some of the work for you. You don't have to push through. You don't have to "do labor right." Your nervous system can stay soft because nothing about this movement is intense.

And because it's so gentle, it works with an epidural, with continuous monitoring, with a long early labor when you need support but not effort.

Not forcing. Not pushing harder. Just asymmetry, on repeat, while you rest into it.

🤍 Save this for your birth plan conversation.

Which position has helped you find rhythm in labor — hands and knees, side-lying, standing sway? Tell us in the comments. Follow for more on how movement shapes birth.

02/06/2026

It wasn’t physiology that put women on their backs during birth. It was history.

For centuries, birth knowledge was passed from midwife to midwife: hands-on, practical, and centered around movement. Changing positions helped the body cope and created space for the baby.

In the early 1900s, as birth moved into hospitals, this began to change. Sedation, monitoring, and later epidurals made movement harder and birth adapted to the bed.

What followed was documented in textbooks and training: women lying on their backs, often in positions designed for procedures, not physiology.

Over time, this shaped how birth is taught and practiced today. Here’s what often gets missed:

The positions we use in labour can change the shape and available space within the pelvis.

Many people are familiar with the birth position of lying on the back with the knees wide apart and turned outward. This position can reduce space at the pelvic outlet. When the femurs are internally rotated, the space at the pelvic outlet can increase, creating more room for the baby.

The position that creates the most space depends on where the baby is in the pelvis and what is needed at that moment in labour.

So history didn’t just change where we give birth it also changed how we use our bodies.

If you’re pregnant, you might ask at your next appointment:

“What positions do you support during labour?”

This is also why I resonate deeply with the approach of : creating space before using force. Thank you Jennifer for demonstrating the physiological reasons of how to make space for the baby.

20/05/2026

Your body already knows how to move in labor. The question is: does the space around you let it?

There are four movement patterns we keep coming back to in birth. Movements many bodies do instinctively when they're allowed to move. They're the same four we've built into the Vibwife mattress, so they're available even when you're tired, monitored, or resting in bed.

𝟭) 𝗥𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗮𝗯𝘆
A gentle rocking that creates a little asymmetry in the pelvis. Your pelvis isn't one solid bone. It's a ring with joints that can subtly shift. That small shift can help make space for baby to rotate and descend.

𝟮) 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘆
A figure-eight motion, similar to what your hips do when you walk or climb stairs. It supports pelvic flexibility and helps the joints stay adaptable. Many moms tell us it also eased their lower back pain.

𝟯) 𝗩𝗶𝗯𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 & 𝗝𝗶𝗴𝗴𝗹𝗲
A gentle vibration many people experience as deeply calming. It can help muscles soften — similar in spirit to the Spinning Babies® "Jiggle". The gentle jiggles not only work on the pelvis but on the fascia of the whole body.

𝟰) 𝗦𝗹𝗲𝗲𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗲𝗮𝘂𝘁𝘆
A side-to-side motion that changes the angle of the pelvis. It can support baby moving downward in a calm, steady way — even if you're exhausted after long labour or an induction or limited by an epidural.

What matters to me as a midwife and founder isn't the "perfect" technique. It's that birthing people have options — especially when they're tired, monitored, or simply need to rest.

That's why these four movements live inside the mattress. So when your own movement gets limited — by an IV line, an epidural, sheer exhaustion at hour 18 — the rocking, the sway, the figure-eight, the jiggle can keep going for you. Small movement, big support.

Save this for your birth plan conversation. 🤍

Which of the four would you most want during labor — rock, sway, figure-eight, or jiggle? Tell me in the comments.

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13/05/2026

Many L&D nurses and midwives spend their shifts helping birthing people do something that sounds simple, but often isn’t: move.

They lift legs.
Adjust pillows.
Turn bodies side to side.
Support hands-and-knees.
Hold monitors in place.
Help with birth balls, peanut balls, epidural lines, IVs, belts, cords, and bed rails.

All while watching two heartbeats: yours and your baby’s.

And they do this because movement can matter so much in labor.

Why?

Because your pelvis is not a fixed shape. It responds to position, pressure, rhythm, and rest.

Gentle movement can help:

- create more space for baby to rotate and descend
- support comfort during contractions
- reduce tension and bracing
- help your body find positions that feel safer and more manageable
- keep labor from becoming one long, still position in bed

But in real birth rooms, movement is not always easy.

Continuous monitoring, epidurals, fatigue, staffing pressure, wires, safety protocols, and small rooms can all make it harder for nurses to support movement the way they want to.

And still, they try.

Because many nurses know: birth doesn’t always need “more effort.”
Sometimes it needs more space, more rhythm, and more support.

For moms-to-be: if movement is important to you, bring it into your birth conversations early. Ask for example:

👉🏻“What positions can I use during labor?”
👉🏻“How can I keep moving if I have monitoring or an epidural?”

And to every L&D nurse & midwife helping bodies move in systems that don’t always make it easy:

We see you.
We honor you.
And we know how much your support can change the way birth feels. 🤍

Save this for your birth prep conversations and tag an L&D nurse / midwife who deserves to feel appreciated today.

11/05/2026

Sometimes birth support looks like knowing which movement to try next.

For Nurses Week, we’re honoring the L&D nurses who notice the small things:

The way a baby is descending.
The way a mother’s body is holding tension.
The moment labor might need more space, more rhythm, or a different angle.

In this video, Charlotte, an L&D nurse at Mercy Springfield, shares how one patient went from 4 cm to 10 cm while using Vibwife.

But the important part isn’t only the number. It’s why she chose the movement.

Charlotte suspected the baby may not have been in the most ideal position for descent, so she used side-to-side sway with vibration.

Why can that help?

- Side-to-side movement gently changes the angle of the pelvis

- This can create small shifts in space, helping baby rotate and move down

- Vibration can support relaxation, soften tension, and help the body release instead of brace

- Together, rhythm + pelvic movement can support the body without asking the mother to “do more”

For moms-to-be: This is a beautiful reminder that movement in labor doesn’t always have to mean walking, standing, or using lots of energy. Sometimes supportive movement can happen while you rest.

To all the L&D nurses out there: Thanks for your daily work, your art and skill how you read the room, the body, and choose what might help next for mother and baby.

During Nurses Week, we want to say: Thank you for the hands-on care, the intuition, the calm presence, and the thousand decisions you make that families may never fully see.

You don’t just monitor labor. You support movement, comfort, safety, and trust. Your care changes birth stories. And we see you.**

Tag an L&D nurse who deserves to be honored this week. 🤍

𝙏𝙤𝙙𝙖𝙮 𝙞𝙨 𝙄𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝘿𝙖𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙞𝙙𝙬𝙞𝙛𝙚.I’m Anna — a midwife, mom of two (both born on Vibwife), and the person who in...
05/05/2026

𝙏𝙤𝙙𝙖𝙮 𝙞𝙨 𝙄𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝘿𝙖𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙞𝙙𝙬𝙞𝙛𝙚.

I’m Anna — a midwife, mom of two (both born on Vibwife), and the person who invented it.
I’d like to share why.

There were shifts on the unit when I knew exactly what a labouring woman needed — more movement, a different position, the rhythmic hands-on support that helps labour move forward — and my hands had already given everything they had. Multiple shifts. Multiple women. Multiple times reaching the limit of what one body can offer another.

That feeling — of caring deeply and running out of capacity — is why Vibwife exists.

𝗩𝗶𝗯𝘄𝗶𝗳𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀 — 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺.

It’s built to carry the continuous, rhythmic mobilisation that supports physiological birth, so midwives and L&D nurses can stay present where presence matters most: at the bedside, with the woman, with attention intact.

Today I’m thinking about every midwife holding space, in every setting, in every system. Thank you for the work you do.

And tomorrow, Nurses Week begins. I’ll be back to honour the L&D nurses who carry this work alongside us — because mobility in labour is shared work, and so is the care behind it.

Tag a midwife or L&D nurse who deserves to be seen this week.

02/04/2026

These are the moments that show me that I love what I do.

I still get goosebumps thinking back to a conversation at 2026 a few weeks ago.

The 26-year-old future l&d nurse .ton tried the Vibwife birth mobility system I invented and said she hoped this kind of support would be “standard of care” by the time she gives birth.

I told her: “𝘐’𝘭𝘭 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘵’𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯.”

That sentence represents my mission why my team and I get up and what we pursue every say:

I have the vision that every pregnant person should be able to choose at least one hospital in their region where Vibwife is available. So they can give birth at a unit that invests in tools supporting mothers and caregivers in a holistic, practical way.

I believe it’s not about the ‚one‘ right position. It’s about creating space for the baby to move. And to support women in any clinical reality. Because every woman is different, so is every birth very individual. All I do is centered around the woman, her needs and the people who care for her.

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02/12/2025

Yesterday’s opening at AWHONN New York moved me deeply. 🌊

Rose Horton () reminded us that nurses are not only the most trusted profession — but also the ones who see the real challenges in maternity care first.

Her message:
When nurses speak up and innovate, change begins.
Not on our watch — and not on hers.”

Sharing this moment felt especially meaningful before stepping on stage together with Jennifer Walker (CEO, Spinning Babies®) to present our shared intention of making room for the baby — through movement, comfort, and stronger collaboration in birth.

Thank you to every L&D nurse, midwife, and leader in this room. 💪🏽
Your courage to innovate is how maternity care moves forward.”

❤️Stay tuned for Part 2 — Jennifer from shares a message every L&D nurse should hear‼️

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