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,...
