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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 Childbirth And Birth Plans … Childbirth Series #7

To understand our present Childbirth conversation and how it impacts YOU, we have to understand the ‘ideas, words, actions, perhaps systems and policies’. We have to evaluate whether the first three are actually leading to the goals and desired results. The idea and...

BirthingBetter You And The Natural Birth Movement … Childbirth Series #5

Primarily Women are responsible for the chaotic childbirth message to each other and to ourselves. What is our goal as Women? 1) Individually this is simple. Each of us wants a safe birth and for our baby and ourselves to be healthy. We also want a positive birth...

BirthingBetter Natural, Normal, Physiological Birth … Childbirth Series #1

Our New Zealand registered not-for-profit, Charitable Trust is doing this You and Childbirth Series because the conversations in childbirth started to get crazy in the early 1980s. This has led to the huge rise of shame, blame, guilt, disappointment, anger,...

BirthingBetter Childbirth Interventions Part 5 … Childbirth Series #26

This is the last group of 6 childbirth interventions that Natural Birth advocates believe we need to avoid in order to achieve a ‘natural’ birth. In total there are 30 interventions we are meant to avoid in order to achieve a certain ‘type’ of birth. That’s...

BirthingBetter Childbirth Interventions. Part 4.. Childbirth Series #25

Here we go again … more ‘interventions’ women are supposed to avoid in order to have a ‘natural’ birth. It’s exhausting isn’t it? We got here by intentional ‘ideas’ and ‘words’ and ‘actions’ and even ‘systems’ and ‘policies’. We have a HUGE problem in how we, Women,...

BirthingBetter Birth Interventions Part 3 … Childbirth Series #24

Lack of movement Hospitals Cervical sweeps Forceps/ventouse Beds Scalp electrodes When running a workshop to Strengthen The Partnership Model between New Zealand midwives and their clients, our Trust asked: ‘What is your goal as a profession?’ (NZ midwives give...

BirthingBetter Childbirth Interventions Part 2 … Childbirth Series #22

These are the interventions I’m going to discuss today. IV fluids Pharmaceuticals Handling/overtouching Directing Cesareans Episiotomies Where did this list come from (since there are 5 episodes in this series)? They came from a question I asked to groups of New...

BirthingBetter Childbirth Interventions #1 … Childbirth Series #22

That ONE word (Intervention) has brought havoc to the childbirth conversation. Where did it come from? What does it mean? How do you fit your coming birth into this one word? This is a 5 Part Series within an ongoing Bigger Series about You and Childbirth. Why is it...

BirthingBetter Childbirth Risks … Childbirth Series #8

I’m doing this series in the middle of the COVID-19 issue and there is a similarity in how we feel about risks in childbirth and COVID. 1) We can be terrified that we’ll catch COVID or have a ‘risk’ in pregnancy/birth and that death will ensue. 2) We poo-poo this...

BirthingBetter Birth Professionals … Childbirth Series #9

First, let’s just get clear who birth professionals are: 1) Obstetricians 2) General Practice doctors 3) Midwives 4) Labor and Delivery Nurses Then there are heaps and heaps of auxiliary folks: 1) Childbirth Educators 2) Doulas 3) Other practitioners who work with...

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