Here’s the story:
‘Mike and I felt that The Pink Kit resource helped enormously with our confidence to do labour in our own way. We felt confident enough to be just the two of us for nearly the entire labour until the very end when we went to hospital at the very last moment. I don’t think that I would have had the confidence to go to sleep mid-labour while we gave Iris time to get into position, trusting that this was the right thing to do, without the skills we had learned. Apart from the hip lift and kate’s cat I mentioned in my letter I wrote to Iris I found the pelvic clock skill useful and spent a lot of time just concentrating on keeping the muscles and tissue around my pelvis as relaxed as possible while noticing positions that made me feel open and I stayed out of those that made me feel closed. I was certainly much more in my body than I had been in my previous labour in which I used mainly cognitive strategies to cope with the pain of contractions. Teh other thing that was really different in this labour compared to my last was the connection I felt to Mike throughout. Because the kit is designed for both women and men it was easy for him to understand exactly how to support me with effective skills’.
What did you learn from this Birth Story?
What skills did you use in your birth that made you feel as confident as this family?
Notice the difference between practical, hands-on skills compared to just visualizations.
Do/did you know your birthing body as well as this woman?
Does/did your husband/partner/other know your body as well as this father?
Don’t you want to have the great skills to feel confident as a birth coach?
Don’t you want your husband/other to have the skills to really help you?
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 her first 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! You can find their interviews on our YouTube channel.
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.