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San Diego, CA - Spinning Babies® Workshop w/ Tema - March 28-29, 2026

2026 March

28
Saturday (In Person)
9:00 AM- 5:00 PM PST
2026 March

29
Sunday (In Person)
9:00 AM- 5:00 PM PST

location_on 1936 Quivira Road, San Diego, CA 92109, USA
Marina Village Conference Center - Bayview Room

Registration

Public Registration ($400.00)

$400 Early Bird price through December 31, 2025.

$450 from January 1 - March 14, 2026.

$475 Late Registration from March 15 - 27, 2026.

Registration


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.

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.

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.



The 2 Day workshop includes everything the 1 Day workshops includes and more. The 2 day workshop allows you to take in the Spinning Babies paradigm at a slower embodied pace. Extra time allows us to critically think about scenarios and how to best apply techniques.


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.



Coffee and pastries will be provided each morning. Please bring your own water and lunch. We will break for lunch about 12:30 pm each day.


Equity Access Statement for each of my workshops:

 

Access for Black and Indigenous Professionals - Spinning Babies® is committed to anti-racism and oppression. Please read our Anti-Racism statement here.  I offer equity seats access to every single one of my workshops. Equity Seats are offered to Black, Indigenous and other Birth Professionals in an effort to reduce the gross inequalities within the maternal / infant mortality that affect these communities disproportionately. I make two full Equity Seats available and two partial pay Equity Seats available for every single one of my workshops. Seats are often first come first serve. To request a seat , please email temamercado@spinningbabies.com.

 

 

 

 


Tema Mercado
temamercado@spinningbabies.com


If you need to cancel your registration please let me know by emailing to temamercado@spinningbabies.com. Your registration is fully refundable minus the payment processing fees that vary from $25 - $40 depending on the value of the registration .You must inform me about your cancellation prior to the start of the first day of the workshop. If you must leave during the workshop, I will give you a future opportunity to complete the workshop by attending one of my Spinning Babies® workshops (this does not apply to workshops being taught by other trainers).

Participants are responsible for their own travel, accommodations, and related expenses and Spinning Babies® is unable to refund these expenses.


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.



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). The American Academy of Family Physicians has granted Spinning Babies® Workshop 7.0 Contact hours of Elective Continuing Medical Education credits for the One-day workshop.

Many doula and childbirth education organizations accept these contact hours; check your organization’s policies.



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 first.


See our Spinning Babies® online course catalog for current list of virtual workshops and trainings.


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.


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®️.