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If you’re a solo mom-to-be If you’re a solo mom-to-be and also a first-time mom-to-be. This talk is for you to lift you up and set you on the right childbirth preparation path, your best birth experience and the Birth Story you tell afterwards. Everything in our...

Just ordinary pregnant women in the early 1970s in the US. Like all of us pregnant women, we are just concerned about our own birth. We all want a safe pregnancy and birth with a healthy baby and mother after birth. We’d also like a positive birth experience. Mostly,...

Birthing Better birth and birth-coaching skills were developed in the early 1970s in the US by hundreds of ordinary fathers and mothers. The Childbirth Trend of the 1960s-mid1970s was based on the very first childbirth preparation classes ever! These were Lamaze and...

PREGNANT NOW? To know why you’re thinking the way you are while pregnant now, you do need to know the past a wee bit so you can actually choose how you would like your ‘other’ to participate PARTNER/OTHER? You are the most confused! BACK WHEN; Throughout Time and...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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,...

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...