First Time pregnancy and first birth
Like all first time mothers-to-be and fathers-to-be you want to know exactly what is going to happen and what to do at The Birth
You want to exactly know how-to:
- have as safe a birth as possible
- feel confident facing the unknown of your coming birth
- stay in control and on top of what will happen to you during the birth
- look back on your birth with dignity and pride
Birthing Better skills do show you exactly how-to achieve those four goals. All the Birthing Better skills were developed by families seeking the same things.
Birthing Better families wanted skills for their birth whether it took place in hospital or home, whether there was heaps of medical care or none and whether their birth provider was an obstetrician or midwife and most important whether your choices eventuated, you lacked choices or they changed unexpectedly.
Birthing Better families, like you, wanted to know what to ‘do’ and that included how to behave, cope, manage, work through and deal with everything that was happening.
There are two sets of exact skills to:
- Prepare your pregnant body to birth your baby from any time from 24 weeks onward
- Cope, manage, deal with, work through and handle your first birth as it unfolds in any situation under any set of circumstances
Once you read the ebooks about Where You’ll Birth, Type of Birth, Creating Two Birth Plans, The Three Roles in Birth, a message to all Mothers-to-be and Fathers-to-be then dive right into the skills.
These are just some of the exact skills you’ll learn to prepare your pregnant body for your first birth:
- 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.
- More
As you prepare your pregnant body for your first birth together with your partner/other you’ll also learn the exact skills to ‘do’ the birth. That’s right, no matter the circumstances you have to ‘do’ the birth. Precise, effective Birthing Better skills work in all types of first births.
Here are some of the exact birthing skills you and your partner will learn:
- 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.
- Dealing with pain, fears or anxieties … yes, there are also exact skills that will adapt to your unique situation that will help you and your partner work through the challenges of giving birth.
These skills are delivered to you in an online childbirth preparation course AND download of all the Birthing Better multi-media resources.
You can’t practice a birth before it happens but you can trust Birthing Better skills because they were developed by families for families — by mothers AND fathers for their two equally important roles of giving birth and helping. Exact skills are necessary to do any activity better whether building a house, driving a car or using a software program. Giving birth is no different.
No matter your personal circumstances, you’d never consider driving a car without the right skills diligently learned and used. 100% of pregnant women will give birth so there are a shared set of skills that work to ‘do’ your birth well just as 100% of drivers have to have the same, exact, effective driving skills. Now you can have these amazing skills to ‘do’ your birth brilliantly.
Start any time from 24 weeks in your first pregnancy. Just like driving or learning any new skill, it takes time to learn and practice before you have to perform. Giving birth is the performance of your life time. You’ll birth somewhere. People will do things to you. Your own unique situation and circumstances will surround you but on that one day … you and only you will ‘do’ the activity of birthing your baby. Now you can know exactly what to do on that day and feel confident that you can do the activity of birthing your first baby well.