It’s SO important that you birth with a plan but what exactly does that mean? Without a doubt you’ve probably read or decided that a Birth Plan is how you birth with a plan and that’s right. Your Birth Plan will help you and your birth professional know what you want and don’t want at your birth. But that’s only half of birthing with a plan.
The other half is to learn the skills to prepare your pregnant body for birth and then learn birth and birth coaching skills so you can birth better in your baby’s birth. Birthing Better families created a comprehensive set of skills that you can learn online in a specific order or download the multi-media resource so you can work through the skills as suits you best.
Having a birth plan is all about what you are going to ‘do’ during your baby’s birth. That’s right. You can imagine your birth as we all do. But each of us has to ‘do’ our birth and that’s where birth with skills is your best plan.
We want you to have the skills to prepare your pregnant body to give birth … that’s a plan. Learn these skills
- The Hip Lift … create space for your baby inside your body
- Sacrum manoeuvre … create space, reduce chance of back labour, help a posterior baby turn and deal with any back labor that happens
- Pelvic Clock … soften inside your pelvis and help your cervix to open, reduce or prevent long 1st stage of labor.
- Sit Bone Spread … reduce or prevent long pushing stage of birth.
- Internal Work … you will naturally stretch in your vagina however, a delay in 2nd stage can also lead to interventions as well as cause damage to your body.
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You’re starting to have a Skills-based Birth Plan. Next part of your birth with a plan has to do with learning birth and birth coaching skills. Learn these skills.
- Directed Breathing … yes, you’ll breathe all the time. Now you can learn the best breathing methods for you. Breathing skills that adapt and adjust and help you work through your baby’s birth well.
- Deep Touch Relaxation … it’s vitally important that you know exactly how-to relax during the birth whether you’re feeling pain, having medical interventions done to you or just feel anxious.
- Working Together … yes, there are exact skills to work together with your partner and how to use both verbal and non-verbal communication well throughout your baby’s birth and afterwards.
- Niggling Labors … one of those natural issues that can lead to more interventions.
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Can you begin to see the value of birthing with a plan? And having that Birth Plan be loaded with birth and birth coaching skills?
No matter the type of birth you have, you’ll have the birth you plan because you’ll have the skills to manage your baby’s birth experience. Birthing Better skills were developed by hundreds of mothers and fathers because they wanted to birth with a plan and what a plan they came up with … knowing how-to birth.
Go for it. Plan for your birth. Birth with a plan. Birth with skills.