San Diego's birth center cornerstone

Spinning Babies® practitioners in San Diego

San Diego's continuing cornerstone for birth center care, now offering important bodywork — essential in pregnancy, delivery, and postpartum healing.


At A Family Affair Birth Center, our Spinning Babies® Aware Practitioners promote optimal fetal positioning by freeing up restricted spaces — including ligaments, fascia, and muscles within the pelvis — to help create balance in the pelvis. By addressing imbalances and restrictions in the mother's pelvic and abdominal muscles, our Spinning Babies® Aware Practitioners help promote a smoother, more efficient birth. Empower yourself for a positive birth experience with our caring and knowledgeable team.

We offer Spinning Babies® Bodywork to all, regardless of who your care provider is, or where you are delivering.

If you select A Family Affair Midwifery for your prenatal care, Spinning Babies® bodywork is a relaxing addition included in your care plan.

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"The midwifes are amazing. They value the birthing couple as well as the Doula. I look forward to many more births at the Birth Center."

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What is Spinning Babies®?

Spinning Babies® is a physiological approach to preparing for and caring for birth.

During birth, babies descend through the pelvis by turning to fit each curve in the passage, as they make their descent through the birth canal. Baby’s turns are called “fetal rotations” or "cardinal movements." If fetal rotation and movements can be made easier, birth is easier for everyone.

So, rather than increasing technology or medication to help childbirth, we activate nature within the body by working with the body in new ways. We begin with physiology and only move to interventions, if and when needed.

Understanding the importance of physiology, and the body's desire to to be balanced at all times, Spinning Babies® allows for more creative, body-centered options during your pregnancy, labor and birth.

By utilizing Spinning Babies® "Three Principles of Balance, Gravity, and Movement," you will be working in concert with your body and your baby as you each do your part in the dynamic, miraculous process of birth.

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Spinning Babies® birth preparation

We offer a unique pregnancy and birth preparation program with labor activities and bodywork that have been shown to ease birth.

Spinning Babies® can be used with any childbirth method or none at all. Spinning Babies® approach is good in any childbirth setting, home, hospital, or birth center.

Self-care and specific body activities restore body balance and make room for the baby.

Babies then put themselves into the best positions possible for childbirth – within the anatomical space available. So let's make room for baby!

Our Spinning Babies® Parents Class (one 3 hr. session) is essential because your baby has an active role in birth! Your baby’s job in labor is to rotate, to spin, sort of like a corkscrew, & descend. It’s not a straight shot out. It is a beautifully complex set of movements and rotation, that mom and baby must perform together to have a successful vaginal birth.

  • Our classes are available to all families regardless of where you plan to deliver your baby.
  • This class is FREE for all families birthing with A Family Affair Birth Center.

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This birth will only happen once. So let's get you prepared

A Family Affair Birth Center is excited to welcome you to LIVE, Hands-on, In-Person, “No More Zoom” Childbirth Preparation Classes, featuring one of our favorite, and one of San Diego’s most sought-after Childbirth Educators, Lactation Educator, and Doula, Debbe Cannone.

  • Feel supported, informed, and empowered.
  • This comprehensive 5-week series (each 2.5 hours) prepares parents, physically, mentally, and emotionally for their baby's birth.
  • Get to know others who are going through the same journey at the same time. You'll learn, laugh, and build a new network of friends as you all embrace this adventure into parenthood.
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Frequently asked questions

We believe information is power. This takes you from being a submissive patient to an informed individual preparing to birth their baby. We want all parents to be the leading voices in the choices around the birth of their baby.

The ideal time to start spinning babies techniques is typically around 30 weeks of pregnancy, as this allows for optimal fetal positioning while still giving enough time for adjustments to be made before labor.

Yes, Spinning Babies is a widely recognized and respected approach in the birth community. It’s based on physiological principles of fetal positioning and maternal body balance, aiming to make birth easier by ensuring the baby is in the optimal position. While not a “quick fix” or a medical intervention, its techniques are rooted in anatomical understanding and are supported by many birth professionals, including our expert midwives and doulas at A Family Affair Birth Center.

Spinning Babies techniques are primarily focused on creating balance in the birthing parent’s body, which in turn helps the baby find an optimal position for birth. The techniques themselves are gentle and are not harmful to the baby. When the baby is well-positioned, it can lead to a more comfortable and efficient labor for both parent and baby.

Yes, we do have several amazing educators who offer private classes, whether in your home or at the birth center, on topics ranging from prenatal childbirth education to breastfeeding classes, paced bottle feeding, and newborn care.

While we love the format and excitement of being back in person, we know that some couples simply need personal classes over a much shorter time period for various reasons. And we are here to help. However, if you are looking for classes not on our current schedule, we recommend the Birth Education Center in San Diego.

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We are conveniently located just off the 15-56 corridor, providing easy access to greater San Diego. We are only about 5 minutes from the 15 freeway.
Ph: 858-254-8791
15644 Pomerado Rd #306, Poway, CA 92064

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Patient testimonials

The care of the midwives and staff at A Family Affair Birth Center has been so refreshing and comforting! They spend time to get to know you and how you want to approach birth. Instead of a quick appointment that is just measuring belly and listening to heartbeat they take the time to listen to you and help you have the best pregnancy possible.

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The feeling inside is very comfortable and home-like. I really appreciated having a bed large enough for my husband and I to lay on with our newborn after she was born. Tamara is very professional and accommodating. I felt safe and comfortable there.

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There is no shortage of praise for A Family Affair Birth Center. Both the owner, Tamara, and the San Diego County Midwives team (Gerri, Heather and Andrea) are incredible, warm, professional and everything you would want in a supportive birth team. Due to a series of unnecessary medical interventions with my firstborn, for my second pregnancy I was determined to achieve as natural and gentle a birth possible, and the team at A Family Affair Birth Center helped me to accomplish that.

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We had a complicated pregnancy and birth, but Tamara helped us with incredible grace and she cared for us through the entire experience. We had originally planned to give birth at Tamara’s birth center, A Family Affair, but with the 20-week anatomy scan we received a tragic diagnosis. Even though Tamara had to direct us to a hospital team, she did so with such grace and she placed us in excellent hands at the hospital.

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Tamara and her team were amazing and I can’t thank them enough for everything. She goes above and beyond for her families she’s helping. If you want a truly devoted, kind and loving person to be on you’re birthing team, someone with an amazing team of extraordinary woman who truly care about the health and well being of mama and baby I encourage you to visit A Family Affair Birth Center. And the care doesn’t just stop at birth.

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We were so so blessed to be able to deliver our little on at A Family Affair Birth Center. Tamara, Darynee, and Denise are such an amazing team of birth professionals. They truly made us feel at home and comfortable leading up to the birth and even more so during the birth because of their warm personalities and immense knowledge of birth.

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I loved my experience with A Family Affair Birth Center, it went as well as I could’ve imagined. Tamara was very informative on what we could do if I wanted to help labor on but was by no means pushing anything on me.

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My experience with midwives Tamara and Darynee was incredible. They always treated me, my husband, and my baby with love and care and made us feel like family! From prenatal care to labor & delivery to postpartum care, we had the most incredible experience and couldn’t ask for more. If we have another child, we will definitely be using these wonderful midwives and their birth center. 10/10 I recommend them!

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