HAPPY 4th of July in the US and around the world hundreds of thousands of women are giving birth without skills. Let’s change that.
What did we learn in the last Skills-based Birth Story #2? We didn’t learn too much about the skills either the mother or father used during their 2nd birth. We learned more about a shift in attitude and actions.
This woman isn’t entirely typical. Women wanting natural births are more likely to be very engaged in their ante-natal care … reading everything, choosing where and with whom they will birth and creating a Birth Plan for the perfect birth. Most pregnant women go along with what their birth professional suggests. The former believe they can control the birth. The latter believe they can’t. Neither are right.
No woman can control how her birth unfolds, however, everyone can become a skilled birthing mother and father.
This woman , however, was typical because she didn’t get the birth she wanted and lived with TABS after the experience. This made her afraid of her subsequent birth when she found out she was pregnant. She was tough though and thought outside the box. Instead of focusing on anger or getting more ideological or giving up, she looked into getting skilled. Clever woman. Wonder what her husband at first thought about that?
Boy, she just went out there and got some skills by using two self-learning resources: The Pink Kit and Hypnobabies (although she might have attended a class of the latter. The Pink Kit is really self-learning in the privacy of your own home). They also attended a Bradley class. They were lucky that they could. Birth classes are not always available in areas except the hospital ones giving lots of information and focusing on Birth Plans.
Her Birth Story focuses more on what she thought about these three different skills-based resources. That’s alwaly ys neat to know. There is quite a bit of difference in the skills and approach to childbirth from different resources. Check them out yourself and ask everyone you know what skills they learned AND which skills they used AND how did they actually use them.
It’s great to hear a woman focused on her breathing but what does that mean?
Here’s a link. This link will be put on all the posts. Kristen has 6 kids, the last 3 are PK babies. She KNOWS about birth and is one of our affiliates. That means if you purchase The Pink Kit through her she gets a commission. Her husband Scott’s first baby was a Pink Kit experience. He’ll explain how The Pink Kit made certain he was able to become a skilled birth coach to a woman who had previously had three great births.!
Kristen’s written a time-line calendar for use of The Pink Kit. You just need to sign up to her mail list (we don’t keep a mail list) and she’ll send you the Time Line. She’s worked through both Edition #2 and #3 of The PInk Kit so she knows all it’s imperfections and la-dee-dahs past them to the skills she wants to improve for each birth. Can women and men have better births each time? Sure can! The more skilled, the more we master the experience.
http://blog.naturalbirthandbabycare.com/pink-kit-timeline-from-natural-birth-and-baby-care-com/
Please join the Movement to grow a Skills-based childbirth trend. Don’t’ let another birth go by without that family being skilled.