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You’re about 34 weeks pregnant and as birth gets closer, excitement and anxiety often vie with each other, that’s natural whether we’re becoming parents for the first time or the eighth. The gateway to becoming a parent is the birth of our baby. Being pregnant is the...

You’re now 33 weeks along. Our first few talks focused on our birth; giving solutions to two frequently asked questions by Dad’s, how do I know when she needs my help? And how do I help her? Then we switched our focus to learning about our birthing body and last week...

You’re about 32 weeks along and 32 weeks is another landmark in pregnancy. At 24 weeks our uterus is above our navel and we’ve experienced movement for a few weeks. Although this is a good time to start to teach yourself the childbirth skills you and your birth coach...

Today we’ll discuss relaxing inside the pelvis with an exercise called the pelvic clock. By now you’re 31 weeks pregnant and your baby is growing. Your baby’s head is no longer the size of a golf ball or a peach that’s for sure. In fact your baby’s head is almost a...

By now you’re about 30 weeks pregnant and hopefully you’ve been able to listen to the last 6 talks of the 16 week childbirth preparation series. Women quickly discover that labour and delivery require our utmost attention, although childbirth may not appear to be a...

 This is the sixth talk and you’re about 29 weeks into your pregnancy. In the last two talks you learned some good communication as a solution to the question Dad’s often ask ‘How do I help her? As mentioned before, sharing a common language and also a common touch...

In a previous article we discussed some skills how to recognise when the woman needs some immediate assistance in birth. We began to give some solutions to one of the other important questions Dad’s want to know ...'How do I help her'? We chose common language skills...

Today we’re going to answer another question Dad’s have about their job as a birth coach, How do I help? Just like the last question there’s more than one answer. Two of the solutions to this question are in the areas of communication and language and our ability to...

This is a talk for Mum’s and Dad’s who are about 26 weeks pregnant, give or take a few weeks. So today we’re going to approach how a man knows when he can help his birthing partner from the understanding of a father’s role in childbirth. Now in your family a relative,...

Today we’re going to learn about listening to how a woman breaths in labour. Since we can’t practise labour, we have to go through a series of simple experiences instead, sort of like exercises. Since all humans are essentially the same, we can easily learn from the...