Giving birth is NOT a dentist appointment. Your baby is working to be born and you have to do the activity of giving birth with your baby. Giving birth is the job mothers-to-be do. Giving birth is how mothers-to-be become mothers. You move from being pregnant to giving birth. All Read more…
Let’s think backward through the past few generations and ask … ‘what was the birth paradigm at that time?’ Well, even in traditional cultures today the paradigm is simple … whatever happens in birth is normal and natural even if unpleasant or wonderful In modern societies when maternity care became Read more…
Pregnancy has only one conclusion – childbirth. No matter who you are or what your circumstances, if you are pregnant now, you will give birth within the year. This means ALL pregnant women are part of an exclusive group. You’re in it or you’re out. This is a perfect example Read more…
As Director for Common Knowledge Trust, I get to travel a great deal and share the Birthing Better Childbirth Preparation skills. Where ever I go, women get very excited when they realize I am about to give them childbirth skills for pregnant women. Why would traditional women have any interest? Read more…
A dad sent us a story the other day. He and his wife had gone through and learned their Birthing Better skills. They were keen to use them at their birth. They had planned a natural birth in their local hospital. Well, she went several weeks over their due date Read more…
There are a few other childbirth preparation methods … not as many as we would think. You probably know about Grantly Dick-Reid, Lamaze, The Bradley Method, Active Birth, Hypnobirthing nad Hypno-babies. The first four were developed in the 1950s and 60s. Active Birth was developed in the 1980s. Hypnobirthing and Read more…
Childbirth preparation and child birth education … these are SUCH loaded yet simple phrases! With the Internet everything becomes confusing really. If you type into Google: childbirth information, childbirth education, childbirth preparation you get different websites and ads. You quickly find yourself falling down the rabbit hole of searches. You Read more…
So what exactly childbirth education materials are you using? Is Birthing Better Childbirth Preparation the only childbirth education program you are researching? Hopefully not. It’s pretty daunting isn’t it? Have you already checked out Lamaze, The Bradley Method, Active Birth, Hypnobirthing or Hypnobabies? What do you think? We want you Read more…
There will be childbirth assessments, monitoring and procedures (interventions) when you birth at a Birth Centre . You might not like them any better than if they were done in hospital. Childbirth assessments might happen. You need the birth skills to cope with them if they are unpleasant. As a Read more…
Expect the best and prepare for whatever. Here’s a Truth … you didn’t get pregnant to have a vaginal birth nor a surgical one … you got pregnant to have a baby! So what does it mean for you if YOU want a vaginal birth after a Cesarean if not having Read more…