You’ve come to the right place. Birthing Better skills is your ultimate guide to labour pain information. No, that’s not the right word. We’re where you can get labour pain coping skills. Yes, that’s better.
Information is knowledge but not how-to. Skills are also knowledge about how-to do something. And YOU want to know how to cope, manage, deal with, work through and handle labour pains! That’s a goal every pregnant women has.
Why are Birthing Better skills for you?
- Because the skills were developed by hundreds of mothers and fathers and tested and tested and tested by 1000’s of families over the years.
- Because you want to know how women have coped with labour pains without suffering!
- Because they work in absolutely EVERY type of birth in which you’ll labour
- Because you deserve to be able to ‘do’ the birth skilfully and not just have it happen to you.
First things first. In order to use birth and birth coaching skills well it’s really essential that you first prepare your pregnant body for birth. Here are some of the Birthing Better skills both of you will learn.
- 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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While you might read or be told that you’ll have more pain in labour contractions if you’re afraid … that is actually nonsense. The natural occurring pain of contractions comes from your cervix being pulled open and that hurts whether you’re afraid or not. Having skills to cope with labour pains matters because whether you are afraid or not you’ll manage just fine.
Here are the birth and birth coaching skills Birthing Better families developed.
- 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.
Birthing Better families wanted to have the exact birth and birth coaching skills that worked in every type of labour. It’s that simple. You’re having a baby whether you have a natural labor or lots of medical care. Birthing Better skills work because you’ll use them to work through each labour pain contraction. This is true if you have a home birth or hospital birth, whether you have a midwife or obstetrician or whether you love your labour or hate it.
Gather labour pain information as suits you but mostly that will go out the window as soon as labour starts. Learn, practice birth and birth coaching skills because as soon labour starts you’ll use them! That’s a huge difference.