We’re taking a side path in this post and discussing The Pink Kit Package. For those of you who don’t know what this is. It is exclusively a Skills-based approach to all pregnancies and every birth.
Over the next few posts we’re going to address the AMAZON REVIEWS … YEH AND BOOs. Using reviews helps our New Zealand charitable Trust reenforce the YEHS and address the BOOs. Since Birthing Better with The Pink Kit Method® has been around since the early 1970s and our Edition #1 was launched online in 2000, we’ve heard every comment there is. Sharing the comments with you helps us with our task … A Movement to grow a Skilled-based childbirth trend.
Each post will have one BOO and one YEH until we address them all. We’ll put the BOOs first because people want to know what’s wrong first.
RESPONSE TO BOOS:
BOO #1:
- The clothes the ordinary people in the DVD are wearing come from the 1980s.
This is the most common BOO and the first ‘reasonable reason why not’ people reject learning The Pink Kit birth skills. People reject other birth skills resources as well.
The footage for the DVD was shot many, many years ago … long before DVD, CD or digital format. We have no illusion this makes it hard for fashion sensitive people to watch.
What goes through their mind is simple: ‘The clothes are out dated so the skills must be too’.
Stop and think a moment whether this makes sense? How long have women become pregnant? Does pregnancy change because the fashions change or we have a different religion, ethnic background or language?
Our human body remains the same. The Pink Kit skills are based on our shared human body (women and men alike). We all sit on bones we can learn to keep open. We all breathe 4 ways: in and out the nose etc. Every Pink Kit skill you can learn no matter what clothes you’re wearing at the moment. Clothes are the superficial cover to our human body.
And hey, you might live in a house that’s more than 20 years old, or drive an older car. You might do faith-based practices that go back thousands of years.
We certainly live in a world with very high expectations that everything modernize. People who can’t get over the presentation don’t take time to learn the skills. There are 3,800,000 babies born every year just in the US. We’ll always win some and lose some.
Reject The Pink Kit on the skills not the fashion. The question you might ask yourself is this: Is my baby worth my efforts to become skilled?
YEH #1:
- The skills are incredible.
This is the most common YEH. Birthing Better with The Pink Kit Method® is not the only skills-based birth resource on the market but it certainly is the most unique and universal. Why’s that? There are several reasons:
- These are skills not merely techniques.
- They focus on preparing our pregnant body as well as working through The Birth.
- Women and men share the same body so the skills are easy and fun to learn together.
- They work in every birth even the most medical or natural.
- They come from families and not professionals.
The most common comments are:
Women:
- ‘I learned so much about my body I thought I knew but didn’t.’
- ‘My partner and I laughed and laughed as we did The Hip Lift together and other skills. What a hoot’.
- ‘I could feel myself soften inside my pelvis, something I never thought I’d learn how to do’.
- ‘I’d read every book there was on birth and got lots of information but The Pink Kit gave me the skills I was craving.’
- ‘Learning didn’t take long, but we did have to set aside time each day for 5-20minutes. I know The Pink Kit would like people to start at 24 weeks which is a good idea. We didn’t find the product until 32 weeks but were really motivated.’
Men:
- ‘Most birth resources barely included fathers and if they did they just gave me information that went out my brain. The Pink Kit gave me practical skills that we used.’
- ‘I never realized I actually had the same body as my partner. You know Men are from Mars and Women from Venus stuff. But I could feel all the body prep skills. Feeling the difference between tension and relaxation made me a realistic birth coach.’
- ‘Birth finally was demystified. The Pink Kit says it: birth is an exercise in plumbing. You have to get a big object out of a container. My job was to keep that container as open as possible’.
- ‘My wife’s confidence was hugely boosted by knowing I was skilled’.
- ‘Men love skills. Tell us what to do, how to do it and when and we’ll be there’.
- ‘My wife was bitching about the clothes the couples were wearing. I don’t think us men are as sensitive to that. I could see how valuable the skills were.’