Now’s The Time To Reclaim Our Childbirth Skills

Consider this In the US, 3,680,000 women give birth each year,
in the UK 700,000 do, Melbourne, Australia 58,000 and the same
in New Zealand Where Common Knowledge Trust is located 1,000
women give birth New Zealand is unique In 1995 midwives became
autonomous, lead maternity carers Direct entry 3 year
educational programs were set up, they are paid by Government to
provide ante-natal, delivery and post-natal care within the
concept of continuity of care Women can choose birth home or
hospital with the same midwife There is no shared care Over
85% of all pregnant N Z women have a continuity of care midwife
Women choosing to birth in hospital, even when referred to a
specialist, will have team midwifery care Ideal isn’t it? Since
1995, the caesarean rate has doubled to over 27% nationally
What’s wrong with the picture?
In modern societies where blame, shame and guilt are raging
emotions often associated with birth, changing the system
doesn’t seem to have worked It’s so easy to ask’so who is to
blame?’ Gotcha
I want a new blue car to drive I’m planning chicken, salad and
apple pie for dinner When my husband and I have sex this
weekend, I want to have the most delicious orgasm I’ll
breastfeed These sentences have two elements The most obvious
are the choices The less obvious are the skills Driving is a
learned skill, so is cooking, making love well and breast
feeding Within these skills are some that relate to natural
physiological human urges: hunger, sex, breastfeeding Somehow
we know that we have, or haven’t or need to develop skills
around these natural physiological experiences Birth is no
different
Common Knowledge Trust is located in New Zealand, yet all The
Pink Kit Method for birthing better™ resources that are and will
become available developed in the US in the 1970s when ‘choices’
for expectant couples opened up possibilities unheard of for our
mothers and grandmothers Little focus has been on the skills
birthing women and coaching partners need, although Lamaze,
Bradley and Birthworks have offered couples tools and skills to
work with the birth plans or choices couples are making
There are so many choices for modern women and such a focus on
individuality that we have lost sight of something very
important We are all one humanity Every woman throughout Time
or Place on this planet has given birth out the same hole Birth
is essentially the same process: one contraction following
another until something comes out our vagina We share the same
body and can prepare our birthing body the same way We
discovered this in the 1970s Stick to the shared body and share
a common language This is The Pink Kit Method for birthing
better™ and every expectant couple can teach themselves in the
privacy of their own home, along with whatever they are doing to
plan or prepare for childbirth The skills adapt to your
individual situation, because they are your skills!
Many birth plans have been foiled by the unexpected Birth plans
are about choice Birth is about reality and what is happening
now Couple our own skills to the choices we make When the
unexpected happens we have the skills to take into whatever
situation we find ourselves The reason we have so often heard
‘There’s no way to prepare for birth’, is because the unexpected
is common place We do not know what our labour will be like, if
we’ll birth on our due date or go over 4 weeks, whether our
water bag will leak for 2 weeks, our birth professional be sick,
the hot water didn’t work to fill the pool, our baby turned
breech and we’re faced with a c/sand on and on We learned in
the 1970s with skills, we can use them in all situations
Nothing has to stop us We adjust
The Pink Kit Method for birthing better™ can become the common
knowledge skills for expectant couples worldwide This will
happen because you make the resources available in your local
community We don’t need another professionally trained group to
teach us about our birthing body, we can do it ourselves at
home We (both mother and father) can all learn how to Map the
pelvis, know what positions keep us open, to relax inside The
Pelvic Clock, to do Kate’s Cat, Hip Lifts, Sit Bone Spreads, use
a common language and common touch at any birth And there’s
more!
Five years of statistics show that couples who learn and use the
skills have about 7% c/s Some of those couples said they did
the work, but really didn’t and gave up in labour This is
compared to the 27% all having access to midwifery car,
childbirth education, yoga, natural therapieschoices
Childbirth can changeone labour at a timeone contraction
at a time in even around all the assessments, monitoring and
procedures being done If women wanted natural birth, they’d go
bush We take aspirin for headaches, antibiotics, immunisethe
normal and natural is no longer If birth was so natural, why
are direct entry midwives trained for 3 years? Birth is natural
It will happen at the end of pregnancy If you’re planning a
labouring birth, then become skilled If you’re planning or
needing a non-labouring birth then treat yourself to becoming
skilled and use the skills in the birth of your child Every
expectant parent can become involved in birth preparation and
have a more positive and fulfilling birth Don’t expect perfect

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