About Us
Empower Your Birth Experience with Birthing Better
Birthing Better: Learn essential birth skills developed by diverse individuals. Embrace your commonality during pregnancy and childbirth. Prepare for a confident and skillful birth experience.
Since 1970s
Beginning at the beginning … What is the concept of birthing better?
Birthing Better skills began to evolve and develop in the early 1970s in the US motivated by the changes in childbirth that were occurring at that time. Hundreds of ordinary men and women developed these skills alongside the Director of Common Knowledge Trust (formally set up in New Zealand Charities Services as a registered charitable.
In order to develop Birthing Better online birth classes are full of skills, we had to recognize our diversity and, at the same time figure out what our commonality was. Underneath that thought was this question: Were there birth skills that could be used in every birth?
Our commonality
What we discovered was simple. We had much more in common during pregnancy and birth than our individuality. In other words, all cars or cakes have much more in common than what type, frosting, bobbles, decorations. Our human commonality is the basis for all Birthing Better skills.
We are all one humanity and we all blink, cough and can tighten up our rectum
Women are either pregnant or not
When a woman becomes pregnant, she joins an exclusive group of other pregnant women around the world
100% of pregnant women will give birth one way or another … including termination, miscarriage and all births no matter where, who is present, type of birth or individual circumstances
Giving birth is always an activity a woman does with her baby as long as she is conscious whether she labors or has a surgical birth
Every activity no matter how small (tieing a shoe!) is best done with skills … make a list of everything you do that involves skills. That list is long, extensive and is the foundation for all our lives
There is no societal expectation that pregnant women prepare their pregnant body for birth much less learn birth and birth coaching skills to do the activity of birthing their baby in every single birth circumstances
What We Do
Once we realized how deep our commonality is, then we focused on skills for this activity of pregnancy and giving birth that occurs within a pregnant woman’s body.
Our Approach
We discovered diverse areas and develop skills in those areas:
- Our pregnant body as it physiologically prepares for the birth: bony pelvis, soft/connective tissue, positions
- These are the Birthing Better body skills that are found in the Birthing Better Complete Birth Skills and Body Skills for Pregnancy and Birth
- The things we do: breath, communication, and touch
- These skills are found in Birthing Better Complete Birth Skills and Breathing, Communication and Touch for Birth
- Human behaviors that tie our pregnant/birthing body together: such as teamwork, how to use our skills no matter where we birth or type of birth including non-laboring Caesarean, how to create a progressive labor
- These skills are found in Birthing Better Complete Birth Skills and Self-Learning Soft Skills for Pregnancy and Birth
Our Core Values
Inclusivity, preparation, empowerment, collaboration, confidence, skill development, family-building, continuous learning, adaptability, and personal responsibility – central to Birthing Better’s childbirth approach.
Birthing Preparation
The birth will unfold one way or another and we all birth better when we use skills we’ve learned in pregnancy. We can and should help our body prepare for the coming birth. Preparing our body for birth is delightful, inspiring, brings us closer together and gives us the confidence to meet the unknown of our coming birth.
Get Skilled
Using skills based on our commonality gives women and men a ‘common body language’ that builds our family and leads to confident mothers and fathers once our baby is born. Start around 24 weeks but if you’re 40 weeks+, learn at least one skill. You’re highly motivated.
Birth Better
Treat birth as an activity you will do with skills no matter how birth unfolds or your individual circumstances … and commit to skillfully birthing your baby regardless of the internal sensations and external factors Ultimately we want to birth better
What’s important to you?
Is your baby’s birth important to you? This is neither a silly question nor obvious. In fact, the vast majority of pregnant mothers and fathers-to-be will tell you how important their baby’s birth yet create a ba-zillion reasonable reasons why not to do anything for themselves. We explain those reasonable reasons in our many, individual ways. Common ones are:
‘My Obstetrician/midwife will take care of me and tell me what to do’
‘I’m having my baby at home and birth is natural so I’m just going to let it happen’
‘Every woman is unique. There’s no one-size-fits-all.’
‘Women have always given birth, there’s no way to know what birth will be like and there’s nothing any of us can do to prepare for our birth‘
‘I’m a man. What do I know.’
‘It’s women’s business’
‘I’m taking a childbirth education course and being given heaps of information’
‘I’m making a Birth Plan. I know what I want and expect my Obstetrician/midwife to help me have the birth I want’
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1234 Divi St. San Francisco, CA 34962