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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 Grow The Gift Of Fear In Pregnancy

Anxiety and Fear in pregnancy and birth The vast majority of pregnant women (and fathers-to-be) experience some level of anxiety, concern or fear throughout pregnancy and during birth. You are not alone! Have you read, been told or believe that you should not be...

BirthingBetter Article Midwifery Statistics # 7 … ADD ANDREA’S STATS

Midwife Andrea Vincent’s experience: Andrea initially cherry-picked those families she wanted to influence: first timers, those who had terrible previous births, and those who really wanted a natural birth. She also periodically tried to teach some of the skills...

BirthingBetter Article Midwifery Statistics #6

Birthing Skills New Zealand has a proud yet short history of having a skills-based approach to childbirth. The US had a more extensive history, in that Lamaze was taught in almost every hospital in every city in all 50 states. *Safer Childbirth?, Marjorie Tew...

BirthingBetter Article Midwifery Statistics Part #4

New Zealand is uniquely fitted to create such an inclusive system, because our nation has put in place everything all natural birth/midwifery advocates wanted, and before that, in the 1950s and 1960s there existed a pervasive societal message to become skilled, with...

BirthingBetter Article Midwifery Statistics Part #3

BirthingBetter Skills Resource – some history Common Knowledge Trust, was created to spread important “common knowledge” to all humanity. One of the types of knowledge our Trust supports is the concept and philosophy that giving birth is an activity and that all...

BirthingBetter How Is Birth Working In New Zealand Now .. Article Midwifery Statistics Part #2

Here are some quotes and brief synopses from the afore-mentioned magazine articles on this subject: North/South, “Is Caesarean Safer? The Evidence for and against Natural Birth” “Fear of childbirth plays a huge part…fear of pain, fear of the outcome for the baby. ...

BirthingBetter For Everyone Using Skills And Choice Article Midwifery Statistics Part #1

The Magic Circle: Birthing Better for Everyone through Skills and Choice Introduction: Common Knowledge Trust (CKT) ,centered in Nelson and in the process of reaching out globally through our website and online birthing skills courses, was created to spread important...

BirthingBetter Why Learn BirthingBetter Childbirth Skills? … You’re 36 Weeks Pregnant

The Birth is going to happen. Hopefully we can catch you before this most important event and get you to spend a small amount of your precious Time during pregnancy to help your pregnant partner to prepare her pregnant body for The Birth. No kidding. Birth is the most...

BirthingBetter Why Be A Great Birth Coach? … She Wants You To Be One!

These are childbirth skills that originated from ordinary women and men and are being passed onto you through Common Knowledge Trust. Today’s talk is for men/other. Like the last talk it’s best to pass on some of these skills through a story. Well, this father had two...

BirthingBetter Slow Labor … Will You Have One?

Today we’re going to talk about one very particular skill connected to a very specific birth situation, how to go into labour rested when you have a slow, niggling pre-labour. The best way for me to do this is to share the story of how this skill developed in the late...

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