What are the Birth Stories women tell? We might hear Birth Stories like these: “I had a home birth” “I had a hospitl birth” “I had a VBAC” “I had a Cesarean” “I had a Obstetrician” “I had a midwife” We also hear: “I had a natural birth” “ I had lots of interventions”...
No, using an epidural during your birth is not ‘wrong’. Using an epidural in birth indicates how deeply and broadly birthing women and birth-coaching fathers/others lack simple and effective skills. OK, am I really saying that epidurals are somehow wrong? No, as...
Our New Zealand registered not-for-profit www.commonknowledgetrust.org (that holds a Childbirth Concept and our associated website www.birthingbetter.org (that holds the skills fathers and mothers developed for all births) wants to say categorically midwives are a...
So much focus in pregnancy, birth and early parenting is on the woman and that is wrecking havoc in families. First … let’s get something straight. We are ALL human beings. We love being skilled. We want to have the skills to do the task/job in the role. Second … when...
Here’s the sad fact, until the shift in the childbirth trend that occurred in the 1980s … The Choice-based Childbirth Trend … there were few women (at least in the US) who were left with the shame, blame, guilt, disappointment, frustration, and anger that has just...
Were Posterior Babies and Birth always an issue? Nope. Actually, in 1970 in the US, there was only a 4.5% Cesarean rate because ‘risks’ were considered normal, natural and physiological and posterior births were NOT even considered a ‘risk’ unlike breech, twins or so...
