Conversation Doctor Birthing Better Part 1
Having this wonderful conversation with Lindsey about birth and Birthing Better. She’s a young doctor pregnant with her first baby and has been working through all the skills since 24 weeks pregnant. BTW .. Lindsey sent me some photos so this is her. I have to laugh. When Birthing Better…
Conversation Doctor Birthing Better Part 2
We received a email from someone today … turns out she’s a young pregnant doctor who purchased Birthing Better. This is our very early conversation that has continued over the day and will continue further. Thought you’d like to hear from a doctor about Birthing Better! BTW … the photo…
A wall full of Birthing Better notes
We go on and on about making two Birth Plans. First, sort out what you want and don’t want. This first Birth Plan helps your obstetrician or midwife and perhaps doula, understand how you imagine your birth to be like. But (and it’s a BIG BUT) you cannot plan for…
More Birthing Better birth stories
‘My wife was so angry after the cesarean: at the midwife, doctor and me. She was determined to have our next child at home. The doctor had told us that both she and our baby would have died and I was absolutely freaked by her anger. How could she be…
Deepen your birth skills
‘My wife and I used The Pink Kit with our first child, although I had two children from a previous marriage. We had a great birth and got pregnant a year later. We refreshed our Pink Kit skills, but more than that, we talked about how we could refine this…
Please heal
‘I am 100% certain that without the knowledge of The Pink Kit we would have had a very different birthing experience. If you are a male and extremely lucky in life, you not only get to witness the birth of your child but also actively take part in that birth….
First time fathers-to-be
First time fathers don’t always believe they will be really useful in labor. Feeling uncertain is understandable when there is absolutely no societal expectation that you learn birth coaching skills. This means you don’t know you don’t know or even need to know. This is not your fault. Birthing Better…
Birth coach stories
Birthing Better dads were the primary motivators for developing a set of practical and effective birth coaching skills. These skills had to work in every single type of birth, with and around birth providers who are most likely be strangers, often in a hospital environment and with and around all…
Pregnant older
‘The learning (from The Pink Kit) was invaluable because it enabled us to undergo a labor and birth with minimal intervention from hospital staff or drug therapy. This was only possible because we had learned how to prepare for the birth by studying the structure of my pelvis and birth canal;…
Terrified of giving birth story
‘I am writing this letter to tell you of my experience of The Pink Kit and how the information I learned from this helped me to have the most wonderful and empowering birth. I can say this because I was absolutely TERRIFIED ABOUT GIVING BIRTH.I gave birth 7 months ago…