One thing not mentioned in the two previous ‘preparation’ posts is the fact that if a woman is in a relationship, she wants her partner to be equally involved in preparing for The Birth. There are many single moms-to-be who have family or friends who can...
A midwife friend told me this story. She lives in New Zealand where all families have their own continuity of care/primary care midwife, choice is respected, maternity service is part of the national health service and free to consumers and women can birth at home or...
Birthing Better with The Pink Kit Method® evolved in the early 1970s from ordinary families who were all pregnant (therefore 100% of them would give birth one way or another) yet they each had their unique background, story, desires, circumstances and situations. As...
CHOICES FAIL TOO MANY WOMEN … AND HERE’S WHY! There will be both women and women who work as birth providers who are tearing their hair out with these posts … or probably ignoring them. Sure there are women who have made ‘choices’ about their birth...
You know there are women out there who are fine with having a cesarean. You’ve probably met and talked with one or more. But you’re not one of them. In fact another c-section is so beyond what you want, will accept or even think about. You are desperate to have a...
Back-labor nightmare! What most birthing women dread … ‘It’s the worst pain I’ve ever had’. What’s worse is there’s no way to know what your birth is going to be like so there’s really no way to prepare for the birth you’ll have. Oh … wait a moment. Is that sentence...