Your VBAC … the MOST important thing you will do. You want to birth naturally so badly. We feel for you because like you, we sought a vbac birth preparation course and back then there were none.
So, we developed one for you. Who are we? We’re mothers and fathers just like you who didn’t find what they wanted as they prepared for their VBAC.
What did we want? We wanted a specific, clear, concise and effective VBAC birth preparation course. Each of us were coming to our VBAC from our own unique previous birth circumstances. And our hoped for VBAC was surrounded by our own unique situation, birth providers and birth place. How did we hope to have a VBAC birth preparation course that suited us all?
Actually the response to our diversity was easy to sort out. We shared a human body that was pregnant and to have a VBAC we all had to labour and then birth our baby out of our vagina. Once the light went on and we focused on how to prepare our pregnant body to labor and have a successful vaginal birth then we could organise a set of skills.
We had to prepare our pregnant body to give birth. The vast majority of us didn’t know we needed to do that and therefore hadn’t.
Why do we need to prepare our pregnant body to birth? That was simple too. A big object had to open us up (dilation of cervix) and come down through our bony pelvis and then out our vagina. If we didn’t know how to open up, keep the inside of our body mobile, soft and able to create space for this wonderful 3 dimensional object then we were more likely to have a failed VBAC.
Once we prepared our pregnant body well and right then we had to learn birth and birth coaching skills to cope with the natural occurring pain of contractions. Only a tiny percent of us had a previous Caesarean during 2nd stage. The vast majority of us either had a real medical issue or we had a failure to progress during the labor that led to our c-section. Understanding that a VBAC was a complex word because it passes over the labor part. We can’t skip to the vaginal part without having an effective labor.
All our skills focused on how to prepare our pregnant body in a very specific way that assisted our baby to come down, through and out of our body during the labor AND then our vagina. And we had to learn effective birth and coaching skills to handle, cope, manage, work with and through, deal with and manage the natural occurring pain of contractions. That was our #1 job!
Birthing Better is the ultimate effective VBAC birth preparation course and you can either learn online in a specific order or download the whole resource.
How successful are the Birthing Better skills? Very! Mothers and fathers don’t bother to create skills that don’t work. Every skill is tested again and again in VBAC after VBAC.
Did everyone have a VBAC? No. Sometimes there are real reasons that another surgical delivery is essential. And sometimes mothers/fathers didn’t actually learn the skills as was essential, knew it as their birth unfolded and realised how essential birth skills really are. At the same time, many mothers who might never have a vaginal birth STILL laboured effectively and then had a surgical birth. In other words, the power we experienced was in our ability to cope and manage a labor!
We have the very best VBAC birth preparation course because it is full of the exact skills you need as a birthing mother and birth coaching father/other. Your success might very well depend on you being skilled. Approach your coming VBAC as we did … get skilled!