Why is this important? If we are going to grow a Skills-based childbirth trend then we must have an evolved skills-based approach to pregnancy and childbirth. There are a number of skills based resources: Lamaze, Bradley Method, Hypnobirthing, Hynobabies, Active Birth and Birthing Better with The Pink Kit Method®. There may be others. Some pregnant women Pregnancy Yoga to develop skills.
We’re going through the BOOs and YEHs about The Pink Kit because this gives us the ability to evaluate a resource that families are choosing to use because of the YEHs and NOT to use because of the BOOs.
So here is another Pink Kit BOO. We get these from years of women telling us what bothers them.
BOO #2 Is the DVD a movie? It’s so slow.
The DVD is divided into 8 segments. This is NOT a movie and it NOT very entertaining. The DVD is all about preparing your pregnant body to become a birthing body. You do this because you are pregnant and 100% of you will give birth. All of you should prepare your pregnant body to become a birthing body because after The Birth there is no reason to do that. Pregnancy is the Time to prepare your body to give birth.
The segments are slow so you can learn and practice each skill along with the ordinary families learning on the DVD. Yes, none of these families knew anything about The Pink Kit before coming to be part of the DVD. They learned on camera!
And it’s vitally important that your husband/partner/other also go over these skills with you. Once they feel The Hip Lift and how doing so creates space inside for your baby, they will know how to help you. Once they compare their Pelvic Map to yours you’ll know why women are designed to give birth and not men … even though we share the same bones in our pelvis. Every skill should be learned and practiced until you go ‘yup’. Then you only need to refresh if you feel necessary.
Will you use all these skills in birth? NO! You might never use The Hip Lift because your baby moves through your body in a progressing manner. Most birthing families use The Pelvic Clock in all 5 phases of contractions. Most birthing families become aware of what positions your baby likes and doesn’t. These skills are combined with others learned in the ebooks.
So, you’re right. The DVD is slow and these families are wearing clothes from years and years ago.
YEH #2 All types of families use these skills 100% successfully.
Why are The Pink Kit skills 100% successful? It’s simple. If you learn any of these skills then they have already worked. Will use not use any during your baby’s birth. That will be a ‘choice’ you make. If you learn and don’t practice the skills won’t be integrated into your Mind/Body. If you learn and practice but don’t bother to use the skills then you have not ‘gotten’ what these skills are for … to work through your baby’s birth journey no matter how it unfolds.
Too many women are focused on the ‘type’ of birth they want or encounter and seem to put aside that their relationship to their baby. Use your skills to work through your baby’s birth journey. If you have a natural birth, use your skills. If you have a medical birth, use your skills. If you have a surgical birth, use your skills.
You use your skills because you are giving birth to your baby. But once you’ve learned any Pink Kit skill it is 100% successful. The more deeply you learn and the more thoroughly you practice and the more you use the skills throughout your baby’s birth the more empowered you’ll feel no matter what is happening to you or around you.