The final BOOs and YEHs #2 … thank goodness.
Here they are.
BOO
- Why can’t it be more professional and contemporary?
There’s a simple answer … do you have the money for our New Zealand Trust to create a really upmarket multi-media resource? If not then either get over this home grown project or seek out better presentation that might not give you the skills you should have.
- I already have lots of information.
This is really the bottom-line BOO a misbelief that ‘information’ is the same as being ‘skilled’. Gathering information will lead to knowledge and perhaps wisdom. Becoming skilled leads to mastery. Your choice!
But here’s where the Choice-based childbirth trend leads people astray. A Choice-based approach is all about gathering information (the pros/cons) so you can make ‘choices’. Expectant families are either spending heaps of time gathering information or they aren’t. If they are and then making a Birth Plan around that information, they are more likely to feel disappointed when The Birth doesn’t unfold the way they wanted and worked hard to think about. Those who don’t gather information will tend to do whatever their birth provider tells them to do. Neither group is fully participating in the birth of their baby.
We’ve done a 13 year Pink Kit study. 85% of ordinary families will self-learn, practice and use birth and coaching skills once they understand the difference between ‘information’ and ‘skills’. As we say: ‘It’s not rocket science’. You don’t need to be a midwife/doctor to learn how to use good breathing patterns or soften inside your body. 10-15% say they have learned skills but behave in an unskilled manner. 5 % just won’t bother to learn.
Your responsibility is to become part of the Movement for a Skills-based childbirth trend whether you’re pregnant now, an expectant father, know someone who is expecting or work with expectant families. If you choose to continue supporting an ‘information’ based childbirth trend then we’ll continue with childbirth as it is. You get change when we change collectively.
YEH
- Every skill in The Pink Kit Package comes from ordinary people. There are no ‘actors’.
This YEH says it all. You will be learning from other families. The skills started to evolve in the early 1970s. It took 10 years and many hundreds of families in many countries, from different cultures, backgrounds and religions who cemented the validity of every skill. More skills continued to evolve until we had to get them out in a resource. We were able to put some of them out in 2000 as Edition #1, followed by the inclusion of more of the skills in Edition #2 and finally a revision in Edition #3.
Our New Zealand Trust feels very honored to produce this resource and stand as advocates for a Skills-based childbirth trend. We have held in deep respect all the tens of thousands of families who have used Pink Kit skills in absolutely every type of birth imaginable.
Join us
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 a 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.!
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/