{The Pink Kit has become known as BirthingBetter}
Women who talk about their back-labour really tells a unpleasant tale. Terrible, lingering pain that doesn’t subside between contractions. Nothing a woman would choose for her birth experience.
Some people say that a baby in a posterior position (the baby’s back in toward one side or other of the mother’s back) is the cause of back-labor but back labour can occur in any birth.
What you want to do is create space for your baby during the birth. The makes sense. Your baby is a big object and if the fit is tight inside your pelvis then the baby rubs against the nerves that run up your back.
It’s really important to learn both birth and coaching skills so you can learn how-to cope and manage back labor pains if they occur. The neat thing about The Pink Kit is that you’ll learn the skills to prepare your pregnant body to become a birthing body during pregnancy!
This is great news. You and your partner can learn the skills to create space inside your body before you go into labor. This means you’ll know how-to soften and open up during the labor.
What are the skills you’ll learn to prepare your body for birth?
- Hip Lift … It’s so easy to feel how much more space you can create from one sit bone to the other. That’s side-to-side.
- Sacral Maneouvre … helps you make more room front-to-back from your pubic arch to sacrum.
- Pelvic Clock … soften on the inside your pelvis permits your baby to move down, through and out of your bony pelvis.
- Kate’s Cat … you’ll learn how to mobilise your sacrum and actually be able to follow how your baby is moving down by where the discomfort is and changes.
Yes, there are lots of other skills … all of them developed by mothers and fathers like you. Families wanted to know what they could do!
What will the medical profession do? Offer you pain relief and that’s fine. Your skills work with and around all forms of medical care because that’s what Pink Kit families wanted for themselves.
The best way to reduce being afraid of back-labour is to learn how to prepare your pregnant body for birth and then have the skills to reduce or prevent back labor.
But here’s the thing. There are many women out there who experienced back-labour in one birth and swore to everyone it was the worst thing to happen. Next birth was uterine contractions that were much worst.
What a terrible thing to say … pain either way! Yes, labor is very hard work and can be (but not always) very painful whether back labor or uterine labor. When you have skills you’ll know how-to cope better. You still might not like the experience but you’ll be incredibly proud of how you managed! Your Pink Kit skills are just the right skills for you.
Trying to turn your posterior baby?
You still might have back labor or your baby might not turn … so learn skills and use them.