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Our Blogs: Each of us comes to our pregnancy as unique individuals. We move through our pregnancy entirely focused on ourself. Birthing Better opens up the world of our commonality. 100% of pregnant women will give birth one way or another. Our mission for the past 50 years has been to grow a self-learning skilled birthing population so that all families can use skills to birth their baby in all circumstances. This is what Birthing Better families have done. We became skilled, empowered ourselves by using effective skills while birthing our baby.

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BirthingBetter Birth Techniques Compared To Birthing Skills

Why did the natural birth and midwifery movement so strongly promote The Choice-based childbirth trend and be so dismissive of the Skills-based childbirth trend? This is important to investigate. One reason certainly was philosophical … a belief that this natural part...

BirthingBetter Recapping #2 … The Importance Of Growing A Self-Learning Skilled Birthing Population

GOAL: Our goal is to foster the growth of a Skills-based childbirth trend. That's our only goal … to have the vast majority of expectant families be able to prepare their pregnant body to become a birthing body, learn, practice and then use birth and birth coaching...

BirthingBetter Recapping Our Conversation About Being Skilled For Birth

We have to continually recap this conversation so people reading these posts can catch up at any time. More important, we MUST see the Big Picture. The FOLLOW-YOUR-DOCTORS-ORDERS and The CHOICE-BASED childbirth trends have not worked. It's that simple. A small group...

BirthingBetter How To Prepare Your Pregnant Body For Your Birth

So, what skills are essential if we're going to have a Skills-based childbirth trend? There is no doubt that people rightly believe that gathering 'information' and making 'choices' is a Skill. We now live in such a mental culture that we attribute most of our skills...

BirthingBetter Too Many Birth Choices And Birth Plans And Not Enough Birth And Birth-Coaching Skills

Why does the Choice-based childbirth trend fail so many expectant families? There are both simple and complex reasons. In order to fully comprehend why this way of thinking does not produce real change in childbirth, we have to look at pregnancy and birth from the...

BirthingBetter Birth Choices And Birth Plans Have Failed Maternity Staff

In the US birth staff used to be exclusively obstetrical nurses. Now there are Nurse Midwives. In most other modern countries Nurse Midwives have always been the staff attending. As mentioned in earlier posts, home birth has also been an option in many modern...

BirthingBetter Birth Plans And Birth Choices Have Failed Midwives

Regardless of how you feel about childbirth issues: home vs hospital, natural vs medical the majority of expectant families would like to have a choice of continuity and primary care midwifery EVEN if an obstetrician must also be involved with their care. By far the...

BirthingBetter Birth Plans And Birth Choices Have Failed Obstetricians

How does The Choice-based childbirth trend impact obstetricians? That's an interesting question. There's a marriage between all doctors and patients/clients/consumers. While there are people who have lots of anger toward doctors and particularly obstetricians, the...

The BirthingBetter Childbirth Message Is Failing Fathers-to-be

Until the later 1960s fathers-to-be were excluded from birth in cultures that had a modern maternity system. Women went to hospital and fathers went the the waiting room, home. the bar or pub. Has birth always been 'women's business'? Some authors imply it has yet...

BirthingBetter How Do Childbirth Interventions Impact Your Coming Birth?

What is the present Choice-based childbirth trend based on? Choices of course. In the last post we created a longish list of many of the 'choices' women want during The Birth. Some of those choices were what is called 'cosmetic' … like being able to birth in a...

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