Common Knowledge Trust is about to give you the very best VBAC information that you’ll ever receive … become a skilled birthing mother and skilled birth coaching father/other.
Because you’re either actively planning a VBAC or gathering VBAC information in order to make an informed choice, you want several things:
- To have as safe a birth as possible for both you and your baby
- To feel confident with the unknown of your coming birth
- To stay on top of and in control of your birth if you can only control your own behaviours.
- To look back on your baby’s birth experience with pride and dignity
- To have a satisfying experience in your VBAC or if you have another Caesarean.
You can achieve all of these right-action goals and we’re going to help you do exactly that.
How?
Birthing Better skills were developed by mothers and fathers like you who wanted these goals as they worked toward a VBAC. This means these skills are unique, powerful and work because families were no fools. The skills they developed had to work!
Here’s the thing. There’s a huge difference between gathering VBAC information and having VBAC skills. VBAC information is all over the internet. And you can find out all about VBAC choices. But we offer you the VBAC skills you need to actually achieve a safe, confident, controlled and dignified birth.
We want you to have the exact skills to know how to ‘do’ the activity of birthing your baby. What Birthing Better families discovered is that first we have to prepare our pregnant body to birth particularly for a VBAC. We had to birth effectively. Our baby had to open our birthing body and come down, through and out our birthing body in a reasonable amount of time and reducing any potential trauma.
Here are the Birthing Better skills families are going to share with you:
- The Hip Lift … create space for your baby inside your body
- Sacrum manoeuvre … create space, reduce chance of back labour, help a posterior baby turn and deal with any back labor that happens
- Pelvic Clock … soften inside your pelvis and help your cervix to open, reduce or prevent long 1st stage of labor.
- Sit Bone Spread … reduce or prevent long pushing stage of birth.
- Internal Work … you will naturally stretch in your vagina however, a delay in 2nd stage can also lead to interventions as well as cause damage to your body.
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Here’s the reality. In order to get to the vaginal part of your VBAC, you have to get through the labor part. That means your cervix has to fully open and your baby has to move down through your bony pelvis then in and then out of your vagina. When we prepare our body from 24 weeks of pregnancy onward to open up, remain soft inside, create mobility and make space for this big object (your baby) then we are more likely to have a progressive labor. Having a progressive labor is more likely to end up with a vaginal birth. Now together (you and your partner) can learn the right skills to prepare your body to help your baby’s efforts to be born.
As you prepare your body you also have to learn the most effective skills to handle each contraction of labor as it comes. Here are some of the Birthing Better skills:
- The Hip Lift … create space for your baby inside your body
- Sacrum manoeuvre … create space, reduce chance of back labour, help a posterior baby turn and deal with any back labor that happens
- Pelvic Clock … soften inside your pelvis and help your cervix to open, reduce or prevent long 1st stage of labor.
- Sit Bone Spread … reduce or prevent long pushing stage of birth.
- Internal Work … you will naturally stretch in your vagina however, a delay in 2nd stage can also lead to interventions as well as cause damage to your body.
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The vast majority of birthing women who end up having a Caesarean don’t get through labor. So your #1 job is to get through labor well. Birthing and birth coaching skills will make all the difference particularly when those are coupled with the above skills of preparing your pregnant body to birth.
Here are some of the Birthing Better birthing skills:
- Directed Breathing … yes, you’ll breathe all the time. Now you can learn the best breathing methods for you. Breathing skills that adapt and adjust and help you work through your baby’s birth well.
- Deep Touch Relaxation … it’s vitally important that you know exactly how-to relax during the birth whether you’re feeling pain, having medical interventions done to you or just feel anxious.
- Working Together … yes, there are exact skills to work together with your partner and how to use both verbal and non-verbal communication well throughout your baby’s birth and afterwards.
- Niggling Labors … one of those natural issues that can lead to more interventions.
- 5 Phases of contractions … at each phase you can use one or more of your skills and stay on top of and in control of each contraction no matter how painful!
- Progression of labor … learn to read every contraction so your labor contractions are effective. Feeling your labor progresses actually helps you cope better with contraction pain.
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In all honesty, gather whatever VBAC information you need to make the right choices for you but become a highly skilled birthing woman and birth coaching dad/other. VBAC information will lead to choices that either will unfold as you wish or not but birth skills, once learned, should always be used. VBAC information may seem important during pregnancy but often don’t apply as your birth unfolds however, your skills, once learned, should be used to do the ‘activity’ of birthing your baby.
Do you understand what we at Common Knowledge Trust are telling you that Birthing Better families created? They created skills to birth their babies in absolutely EVERY type of birth. Because these skills were developed in the 1970s, women seeking a VBAC or Trial of Labor had had classical C-sections! They were leading the way and now you can learn these Birthing Better skills in an online, easy to learn multi-media resource with the ability to also download the digital resource.
Join us today so that all women seeking VBAC information will also seek VBAC skills. We’ve got them! You can too.