9 July 20009
Here's another Pink Kit story. This woman has used The Pink Kit for 2 of her 4 births.
Wintergreen,
I wanted to write you at least briefly to let you know I witnessed yet another amazing pink kit birth.
My sister in law J's 4th baby, Anthony, was born a little over a month ago. She labored so well that the attending nurse didn't even realize she was giving birth until his head was already halfway out. He was born within 2 hours of labor beginning, was 9lb 11 oz at birth and came out with one fist up by his head (fist of power ? =). She had just a very minor scrape. The Pink Kit skills were an absolutely integral part of her extremely effective labor. She prepped for birth using the PK skills she already had, during labor we used various pk exercises to relax her pelvis between contractions, I regularly reminded her about the exercise in plumbing and her teamwork with the baby to get him out as efficiently as possible was awesome.
We thank you & the Pink Kit yet again!
Sponsors
Friday, July 10, 2009
Thursday, July 9, 2009
This Woman 'Gets' That Birth Is Birth.
8 July 2009
I've been having a correspondence with a wonderful woman who has two parts of herself. She really believes that every family should have the best skills for themselves in pregnancy, childbirth and parenting ... without judgment. The other part of her is directed toward 'alternatives' ... which in some ways excludes many families who do not want anything alternative!
Recently she went to a conference and wrote me after that.
I see now, after the {conference} training what you were trying to get through my head the first time we talked.
Birth is birth, like you said, it's going to happen whether we like it or not. And accepting birth in this way leaves no room for judgment! And this is extremely important in regards to the various amount of issues that can occur during the childbearing year. I get it!!!
I believe the same in regards to bonding with your baby, whether natural/hospital birth, breastfeeding/bottlefeeding, stollers or baby wraps/slings - everyone wants a strong and healthy bond with their baby. And everyone has the right to bond with their baby in the ways they feel are comfortable. We simply teach the ways that have been proven to increase the family bond with new baby and we try to create new ways for mother, father and baby to bond in many different situations.
I would like to work with you more and have lots on my plate right now but first let's schedule a weekly meeting like you proposed.
Hopefully she and I will work together more closely
I've been having a correspondence with a wonderful woman who has two parts of herself. She really believes that every family should have the best skills for themselves in pregnancy, childbirth and parenting ... without judgment. The other part of her is directed toward 'alternatives' ... which in some ways excludes many families who do not want anything alternative!
Recently she went to a conference and wrote me after that.
I see now, after the {conference} training what you were trying to get through my head the first time we talked.
Birth is birth, like you said, it's going to happen whether we like it or not. And accepting birth in this way leaves no room for judgment! And this is extremely important in regards to the various amount of issues that can occur during the childbearing year. I get it!!!
I believe the same in regards to bonding with your baby, whether natural/hospital birth, breastfeeding/bottlefeeding, stollers or baby wraps/slings - everyone wants a strong and healthy bond with their baby. And everyone has the right to bond with their baby in the ways they feel are comfortable. We simply teach the ways that have been proven to increase the family bond with new baby and we try to create new ways for mother, father and baby to bond in many different situations.
I would like to work with you more and have lots on my plate right now but first let's schedule a weekly meeting like you proposed.
Hopefully she and I will work together more closely
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Take responsibiity for your own pregnancy and birth experience
15 June 2009
Great Pink Kit story. I keep forgetting to install them on the blog. Too many 'social network' things to do along with everything that has to be done. But this story talks about how to use your Pink Kit skills prior to birth ... or afterward if necessary.
'Greetings from W, where the sun is finally shining and spring/summer seems to be upon us. I have been thinking a lot about you recently as my husband and I prepare to welcome another babe into our family in the next week or so. As we have been reviewing the Pink Kit I think back to our email conversations while I was in Z and then afterward when we were at my parents place. And I guess I am just grateful for the advice and suggestions you gave me (us) and the way in which the Pink Kit has added so much to our understanding and preparation for childbirth. So, thank you.
I am feeling pretty good about the upcoming labour and delivery and made an interesting discovery last week while practicing the Hip Lift with my husband. This babe sits quite low in my pelvis and has introduced me to a number of nerves I didn’t know much about. It has also been leaning quite heavily on my inner left hip (near the sit bone). These past weeks I have often found walking to be a challenge (which I do a far amount of to get the older one to and from school). I have been taking daily baths and right lying to try and get some relief. And then last week after practicing a left Hip Lift in the evening I found the next day (and since) to be so much better. The babe is still very low but has hopped off my left inner hip and feels more centrally placed. I felt so pleased to find the Pink Kit resources working for me even before labour has begun'.
Remember if we want childbirth to change then we have to change the expectation we place on ourselves as mothers and fathers-to-be. This family has taken the time and made the effort to learn the PK skills and then apply them. Birth change will only occur when the majority of pregnant families become skilled at giving birth whether they have a natural/medical birth, at home/hospital or with a midwife or obstetrician.
This family didn't wait for someone else to give them a better birth ... they are birthing better even during pregnancy.
Great Pink Kit story. I keep forgetting to install them on the blog. Too many 'social network' things to do along with everything that has to be done. But this story talks about how to use your Pink Kit skills prior to birth ... or afterward if necessary.
'Greetings from W, where the sun is finally shining and spring/summer seems to be upon us. I have been thinking a lot about you recently as my husband and I prepare to welcome another babe into our family in the next week or so. As we have been reviewing the Pink Kit I think back to our email conversations while I was in Z and then afterward when we were at my parents place. And I guess I am just grateful for the advice and suggestions you gave me (us) and the way in which the Pink Kit has added so much to our understanding and preparation for childbirth. So, thank you.
I am feeling pretty good about the upcoming labour and delivery and made an interesting discovery last week while practicing the Hip Lift with my husband. This babe sits quite low in my pelvis and has introduced me to a number of nerves I didn’t know much about. It has also been leaning quite heavily on my inner left hip (near the sit bone). These past weeks I have often found walking to be a challenge (which I do a far amount of to get the older one to and from school). I have been taking daily baths and right lying to try and get some relief. And then last week after practicing a left Hip Lift in the evening I found the next day (and since) to be so much better. The babe is still very low but has hopped off my left inner hip and feels more centrally placed. I felt so pleased to find the Pink Kit resources working for me even before labour has begun'.
Remember if we want childbirth to change then we have to change the expectation we place on ourselves as mothers and fathers-to-be. This family has taken the time and made the effort to learn the PK skills and then apply them. Birth change will only occur when the majority of pregnant families become skilled at giving birth whether they have a natural/medical birth, at home/hospital or with a midwife or obstetrician.
This family didn't wait for someone else to give them a better birth ... they are birthing better even during pregnancy.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
What Does This Financial Crisis Mean To Childbirth?
21 April 2009
As a registered not-for-profit charitable Trust, Common Knowledge Trust, we have an obligation to uphold our goals and objectives and work toward bringing them into public awareness.
This means, my job is always to articulate what CKT is about and how our goals and objectives impact and are impacted by changes in society.
Right now we are at an end of a era. Since the mid 1980s everyone has gotten fat of the hog so to speak. We've wanted more, gotten more, gone into debt for more, wanted everything to be easy and painless. We just wanted, got and felt entitled to our super abundance.
Human nature is like that sometimes. We feast when we can. Of course there's a flip side, we store when we need to.
How does this relate to childbirth?
When I gave birth to my first child in 1970 there was lots of positive changes happening. Too many for me to recount. People were hopeful that birth would find a balance between being a 'natural part of life' and the modern health care that was available. And, for a while it looked like this would happen.
From my perspective a lot had to do with Lamaze and Bradley childbirth education. These two systems were based on skills and fathers active participation in labour and birth. For many millions of families childbirth skills went into their births and enriched their experience.
But these two systems had one really fatal flaw ... they wanted to reduce the use of medical care and increase natural birth. Sounds good but in reality, this has had a huge unintended negative consequence. It set one birth against another as though a 'natural' birth was superior to a 'medical' birth.
This is flawed thinking because the birth of our children is always, always special and should be respected and valued as such.
But anyway, I'm trying to get to my point about what is happening now. There isn't just a change in finances, there has to be a change in everything we do and how we live on this planet.
We have programs on TV like SuperNanny that clearly show how lovely families don't have the skills to have a happy family. She teaches 'skills' but they have to be learned and used.
We have programs about weight loss to help people become inspired by the hard work and skills to lose and maintain weight loss. But, you have to learn them and do the work.
We have Dr. Phil who helps families (both men and women) to find better ways to live but once again, you have to learn the skills and use them.
Here's where The Pink Kit Method For Birthing Better® comes in. It's the only childbirth education, childbirth preparation, childbirth skills resource that is inclusive of all births just because pregnancy precedes giving birth.
Once you are pregnant you cannot avoid giving birth. Since the birth of each of our children is important then we all need the right skills to do the activity of getting our baby out of our body.
And men? ... Well you put them in there, now help get them out.
We're standing on a brink. If we don't change our attitude then within a generation most babies could be born by a surgical birth. That doesn't make the birth less special, it makes it a major surgical procedure. That's sort of like going into debt rather than saving because it's just easier.
Birth is not complex but sometimes health issues require medical care. That shouldn't stop you from enjoying preparing your body for birth (and know that this is an essential part of being pregnant). Nor should any reason stop you from learning skills that both of you can use to help your baby come out of your body ... even during a surgical procedure.
But once you are skilled then you are more likely to reduce all the common medical interventions ... just like you can reduce many common chronic diseases by being more fit or have a happier family by knowing how to parent or partner.
Here are our Pink Kit childbirth statistics. These come from families who have self-learned and then used their Pink Kit skills in whatever birth they had. But there's something not shown in the statistics. Those families who had lots of medical care felt better about their birth experiences because they 'birthed better' in and around all the health care they needed.
In other words, it's never been an issue about health care the problem in childbirth is a fundamental lack of skills! That can and should change and that is what Common Knowledge Trust works toward every single day ... to grow a skilled birthing population.
As a registered not-for-profit charitable Trust, Common Knowledge Trust, we have an obligation to uphold our goals and objectives and work toward bringing them into public awareness.
This means, my job is always to articulate what CKT is about and how our goals and objectives impact and are impacted by changes in society.
Right now we are at an end of a era. Since the mid 1980s everyone has gotten fat of the hog so to speak. We've wanted more, gotten more, gone into debt for more, wanted everything to be easy and painless. We just wanted, got and felt entitled to our super abundance.
Human nature is like that sometimes. We feast when we can. Of course there's a flip side, we store when we need to.
How does this relate to childbirth?
When I gave birth to my first child in 1970 there was lots of positive changes happening. Too many for me to recount. People were hopeful that birth would find a balance between being a 'natural part of life' and the modern health care that was available. And, for a while it looked like this would happen.
From my perspective a lot had to do with Lamaze and Bradley childbirth education. These two systems were based on skills and fathers active participation in labour and birth. For many millions of families childbirth skills went into their births and enriched their experience.
But these two systems had one really fatal flaw ... they wanted to reduce the use of medical care and increase natural birth. Sounds good but in reality, this has had a huge unintended negative consequence. It set one birth against another as though a 'natural' birth was superior to a 'medical' birth.
This is flawed thinking because the birth of our children is always, always special and should be respected and valued as such.
But anyway, I'm trying to get to my point about what is happening now. There isn't just a change in finances, there has to be a change in everything we do and how we live on this planet.
We have programs on TV like SuperNanny that clearly show how lovely families don't have the skills to have a happy family. She teaches 'skills' but they have to be learned and used.
We have programs about weight loss to help people become inspired by the hard work and skills to lose and maintain weight loss. But, you have to learn them and do the work.
We have Dr. Phil who helps families (both men and women) to find better ways to live but once again, you have to learn the skills and use them.
Here's where The Pink Kit Method For Birthing Better® comes in. It's the only childbirth education, childbirth preparation, childbirth skills resource that is inclusive of all births just because pregnancy precedes giving birth.
Once you are pregnant you cannot avoid giving birth. Since the birth of each of our children is important then we all need the right skills to do the activity of getting our baby out of our body.
And men? ... Well you put them in there, now help get them out.
We're standing on a brink. If we don't change our attitude then within a generation most babies could be born by a surgical birth. That doesn't make the birth less special, it makes it a major surgical procedure. That's sort of like going into debt rather than saving because it's just easier.
Birth is not complex but sometimes health issues require medical care. That shouldn't stop you from enjoying preparing your body for birth (and know that this is an essential part of being pregnant). Nor should any reason stop you from learning skills that both of you can use to help your baby come out of your body ... even during a surgical procedure.
But once you are skilled then you are more likely to reduce all the common medical interventions ... just like you can reduce many common chronic diseases by being more fit or have a happier family by knowing how to parent or partner.
Here are our Pink Kit childbirth statistics. These come from families who have self-learned and then used their Pink Kit skills in whatever birth they had. But there's something not shown in the statistics. Those families who had lots of medical care felt better about their birth experiences because they 'birthed better' in and around all the health care they needed.
In other words, it's never been an issue about health care the problem in childbirth is a fundamental lack of skills! That can and should change and that is what Common Knowledge Trust works toward every single day ... to grow a skilled birthing population.
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Pink Kit childbirth skills AND induction
19 April 2009
A dad sent us a story the other day. He and his wife had gone through and learned their pink kit skills. They were keen to use them at their birth. They had planned a natural birth in their local hospital.
Well, she went several weeks over their due date and eventually agreed to an induction. The induction was quite gentle and they were using their skills very well.
Their obstetrician came in after several hours and didn't feel the woman was progressing quickly enough so she turned up the IV.
This kicked in very intense contractions. This dad said that his wife just lost the plot and started to cry. He said he was floored and didn't really know what to do. The skills went out the window.
He then said that he just couldn't sit around an do nothing. He told his wife that they had to use their pink kit skills right now! And they did.
They just focused on each other and how to use every single moment of their time applying one or more of their Pink Kit skills.
No they didn't like how intense the induction was but that was what was happening! In fact, they were having a very intense labour they didn't like and didn' t think was necessary. They were angry with their obstetrician but chose to spend absolutely no amount of time dwelling on that.
Instead they used their skills and after the birth were elated by their ability to cope with what was frankly unpleasant.
There is no doubt that there are other childbirth education systems BUT all of them are trying to achieve 'natural' births and to reduce medical intervention. The techniques they teach tend to fail or not be used once the birth becomes more medical.
The Pink Kit skills always work when you use them because they are skills and not techniques.
This dad told a great Pink Kit birth story! Bravo!
A dad sent us a story the other day. He and his wife had gone through and learned their pink kit skills. They were keen to use them at their birth. They had planned a natural birth in their local hospital.
Well, she went several weeks over their due date and eventually agreed to an induction. The induction was quite gentle and they were using their skills very well.
Their obstetrician came in after several hours and didn't feel the woman was progressing quickly enough so she turned up the IV.
This kicked in very intense contractions. This dad said that his wife just lost the plot and started to cry. He said he was floored and didn't really know what to do. The skills went out the window.
He then said that he just couldn't sit around an do nothing. He told his wife that they had to use their pink kit skills right now! And they did.
They just focused on each other and how to use every single moment of their time applying one or more of their Pink Kit skills.
No they didn't like how intense the induction was but that was what was happening! In fact, they were having a very intense labour they didn't like and didn' t think was necessary. They were angry with their obstetrician but chose to spend absolutely no amount of time dwelling on that.
Instead they used their skills and after the birth were elated by their ability to cope with what was frankly unpleasant.
There is no doubt that there are other childbirth education systems BUT all of them are trying to achieve 'natural' births and to reduce medical intervention. The techniques they teach tend to fail or not be used once the birth becomes more medical.
The Pink Kit skills always work when you use them because they are skills and not techniques.
This dad told a great Pink Kit birth story! Bravo!
Friday, April 17, 2009
Pink Kit Childbirth Education Venture Philanthropy
17 April 2009
I've recently listened to a radio program about Venture Philanthropy and thought 'what a wonderful idea'.
Instead of Venture Capital ... money used to get innovative ideas into a sellable form with a huge return for the money given, why not promote the ability of people to offer their skills and expertise to innovative ideas within the not-for-profit sector?
Hum ... does that make sense? Here's an example. I was chatting to a woman who is involved with New Zealand's Grey Power. She had also heard the same radio discussion and has an interest in getting Grey Power members to list their skills and interests.
She gave me her email address and I sent her an email listing the skills Common Knowledge Trust needs in order to totally re-do The Pink Kit package.
We've always known we have an imperfect resource. Most expectant parents who purchase and use The Pink Kit Package forgive it's presentation because the childbirth skills are so vitally important to learn and use.
However, we'd love to have a wonderful resource that is totally enjoyable for mothers and fathers-to-be to use in the privacy of their own homes. This woman with whom I spoke had an interest in teaching younger people to cook ... so there are references to that as analogies to growing a skilled birthing population.
So here is the list of Venture Philanthropy we need:
Written material:
Good editor: ... there will be two parallel products: The rewrite that I'm working on now that will be about 45 separate stand-alone yet interconnected resources that we'll sell online if we are able to redo the whole thing. And to edit the material that will go into the hardcopy book which will come from the above 45 + resources minus anything that really should be in a new visual.
illustrator/graphics: ... body illustration, cover design for all 45+ resources and final hard copy design for the multi-media resource.
Visuals:
computer generated graphics ... sophisticated in 3-dimensional and rotational graphics about body/pregnancy/birth. We'll guide the process but we don't have the software expertise.
filming/editing: ... If we have any real life shots ... perhaps presenter.
Marketing:
PR ... Press releases, radio interviews, magazine articles ...
Our Trust wants to raise the awareness that preparing for birth is essential, learning skills to do the activity is vital and using the skills is appropriate in whatever birth you have ... because each of us can birth better when we are skilled.
Distributor ... We need to get into bookstores in english speaking countries.
translators ... Once we redo the whole thing we need to translate the whole multi-media resource.
course designers .... We have an opportunity to create online self-doing courses. We also have a trial with a childbirth educator in Nelson who is loaning a PKPackage to all couples attending the hospital ante-natal classes. The 6 ten minute Pink Kit sampler must be written better so our Trust could license that to other cbes worldwide. We also need to develop a short presentation that midwives, doulas can offer expectant parents AND something that can be used by wholesalers who want to invite families to a 1-2 hour presentation and sell the resources. AND we want to produce a simpler resource that can be translated in multiple languages and given to expectant families through clinics in developing countries.
Computer:
Someone to do internet research ... social network sites; how to get grandparents to give this resource to their expectant children/grandchildren; research some software and teach us how to use some of those (we'll explain further); keyword/phrase searches.
Article writing and submission ... using our material to write some articles and submit them to article sites online as well as press releases.
Macintosh user who can help me create more websites
Google analytics ... someone who can help us set up Google analytics tracking software and testing.
That seems like a bit. We're well down the road to becoming the one childbirth education/information/preparation/skills method that includes all pregnancy/childbirth because that's common sense and can replace the present trend that actually implies that one type of birth is better than another.
So if you have time and energy to help a New Zealand charitable not-for-profit to change the world please come on board. We need your expertise but we can't pay. After all what is money? It's a form of exchange for skills and services (excluding 'things'). However, venture philanthropy is all about giving your skills and services rather than being paid for them.
I've recently listened to a radio program about Venture Philanthropy and thought 'what a wonderful idea'.
Instead of Venture Capital ... money used to get innovative ideas into a sellable form with a huge return for the money given, why not promote the ability of people to offer their skills and expertise to innovative ideas within the not-for-profit sector?
Hum ... does that make sense? Here's an example. I was chatting to a woman who is involved with New Zealand's Grey Power. She had also heard the same radio discussion and has an interest in getting Grey Power members to list their skills and interests.
She gave me her email address and I sent her an email listing the skills Common Knowledge Trust needs in order to totally re-do The Pink Kit package.
We've always known we have an imperfect resource. Most expectant parents who purchase and use The Pink Kit Package forgive it's presentation because the childbirth skills are so vitally important to learn and use.
However, we'd love to have a wonderful resource that is totally enjoyable for mothers and fathers-to-be to use in the privacy of their own homes. This woman with whom I spoke had an interest in teaching younger people to cook ... so there are references to that as analogies to growing a skilled birthing population.
So here is the list of Venture Philanthropy we need:
Written material:
Good editor: ... there will be two parallel products: The rewrite that I'm working on now that will be about 45 separate stand-alone yet interconnected resources that we'll sell online if we are able to redo the whole thing. And to edit the material that will go into the hardcopy book which will come from the above 45 + resources minus anything that really should be in a new visual.
illustrator/graphics: ... body illustration, cover design for all 45+ resources and final hard copy design for the multi-media resource.
Visuals:
computer generated graphics ... sophisticated in 3-dimensional and rotational graphics about body/pregnancy/birth. We'll guide the process but we don't have the software expertise.
filming/editing: ... If we have any real life shots ... perhaps presenter.
Marketing:
PR ... Press releases, radio interviews, magazine articles ...
- we have to shift the conversation from the oppositional approach to childbirth and talk about pregnancy as the time to prepare to do the activity of giving birth. In NZ the conversation could be around balancing the Partnership and the role of both mothers and fathers-to-be.
- We also have to get away from the belief that there is no way to know what your birth will be like (yes, true) therefore there is nothing you can do (not true) Birth will unfold and we need the skills to work through the proces.
- We also have to get away from the belief that one birth is better than another because one is 'natural' while the other is 'medical'. This produces shame, blame and guilt. Instead we have to focus on 'birthing better' in whatever birth we have as a family. Birth is always an activity.
- We also have to move away from a belief that birth is just a natural physiological process that we should just assume our instinct/intuition will carry us through. 100% of women do get through birth but in reality very few women know how-to give birth and fewer men know how-to meaningfully help.
- We have come to accept 'getting through' is NOT the best it will get.
- Also birth used to be connected to suffering. The modern maternity system continues to try to reduce suffering. Birth without any medical care in developing countries is both safe and very unsafe but more important the childbirth discussion in most modern countries lies with a belief that this physiological process should not be connected to our human brain. In your desire to teach people to cook you know that hunger is also a natural physiological urge that leads to a need to eat but humans do not have a built in ability to instinctively/intuitively know what foods are safe or poisonous OR how-to cook.
Our Trust wants to raise the awareness that preparing for birth is essential, learning skills to do the activity is vital and using the skills is appropriate in whatever birth you have ... because each of us can birth better when we are skilled.
Distributor ... We need to get into bookstores in english speaking countries.
translators ... Once we redo the whole thing we need to translate the whole multi-media resource.
course designers .... We have an opportunity to create online self-doing courses. We also have a trial with a childbirth educator in Nelson who is loaning a PKPackage to all couples attending the hospital ante-natal classes. The 6 ten minute Pink Kit sampler must be written better so our Trust could license that to other cbes worldwide. We also need to develop a short presentation that midwives, doulas can offer expectant parents AND something that can be used by wholesalers who want to invite families to a 1-2 hour presentation and sell the resources. AND we want to produce a simpler resource that can be translated in multiple languages and given to expectant families through clinics in developing countries.
Computer:
Someone to do internet research ... social network sites; how to get grandparents to give this resource to their expectant children/grandchildren; research some software and teach us how to use some of those (we'll explain further); keyword/phrase searches.
Article writing and submission ... using our material to write some articles and submit them to article sites online as well as press releases.
Macintosh user who can help me create more websites
Google analytics ... someone who can help us set up Google analytics tracking software and testing.
That seems like a bit. We're well down the road to becoming the one childbirth education/information/preparation/skills method that includes all pregnancy/childbirth because that's common sense and can replace the present trend that actually implies that one type of birth is better than another.
So if you have time and energy to help a New Zealand charitable not-for-profit to change the world please come on board. We need your expertise but we can't pay. After all what is money? It's a form of exchange for skills and services (excluding 'things'). However, venture philanthropy is all about giving your skills and services rather than being paid for them.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
The Pink Kit childbirth education a household name
15 April 2009
Aunoushka is a childbirth educator/midwife in the home town of The Pink Kit.
For the past 18 months she, in conjunction with our local hospital decided that all couples attending the hospital ante-natal classes would be loaned a Pink Kit Package.
It's been very interesting for Aunoushka to present six very short Pink Kit samplers and try to encourage families to self learn from this resource and use their Pink Kit childbirth skills in whatever birth they have.
Because she's also a midwife many times she'll be in hospital when one of the couples is in labour. Frankly she's been a bit disappointed so far.
When she first started this trial she really didn't know what to expect. She agrees that couples are not coming early enough. To get the best results you should really start learning about 24 weeks.
Starting at 24 weeks gives you time to space out a bit, learn slowing and thoroughly. When left to the 32 weeks that most couples start attending the classes, it's just too late. They feel overwhelmed by having to learn a simple set of skills and they haven't been told my their birth provider that the skills are essential.
Just recently she discovered a bit more success and felt it had to do with a shift in her attitude, in how she was presenting the brief samplers and the tone in her voice when she explained how essential the skills are.
Recently she's also had a number of couples attend who are coming from the two midwives who collected our statistics. Because those midwives are pushing couples into doing the work, they come to class already invested in self learning.
What's the end result? She feels that within another year or two The Pink Kit Method For Birthing Better® will become a household name in our local area.
That's neat. Now we just have to get out into the bigger world.
Don't forget to contact us at info@commonknowledgetrust.com and learn how you can become part of this new approach to pregnancy and childbirth.
Aunoushka is a childbirth educator/midwife in the home town of The Pink Kit.
For the past 18 months she, in conjunction with our local hospital decided that all couples attending the hospital ante-natal classes would be loaned a Pink Kit Package.
It's been very interesting for Aunoushka to present six very short Pink Kit samplers and try to encourage families to self learn from this resource and use their Pink Kit childbirth skills in whatever birth they have.
Because she's also a midwife many times she'll be in hospital when one of the couples is in labour. Frankly she's been a bit disappointed so far.
- The midwives aren't encouraging the couples to use the skills.
- The couples aren't self initiating their use.
- In fact she finds that only 30% even bother to go through the multi-media Pink Kit package
When she first started this trial she really didn't know what to expect. She agrees that couples are not coming early enough. To get the best results you should really start learning about 24 weeks.
Starting at 24 weeks gives you time to space out a bit, learn slowing and thoroughly. When left to the 32 weeks that most couples start attending the classes, it's just too late. They feel overwhelmed by having to learn a simple set of skills and they haven't been told my their birth provider that the skills are essential.
Just recently she discovered a bit more success and felt it had to do with a shift in her attitude, in how she was presenting the brief samplers and the tone in her voice when she explained how essential the skills are.
Recently she's also had a number of couples attend who are coming from the two midwives who collected our statistics. Because those midwives are pushing couples into doing the work, they come to class already invested in self learning.
What's the end result? She feels that within another year or two The Pink Kit Method For Birthing Better® will become a household name in our local area.
That's neat. Now we just have to get out into the bigger world.
Don't forget to contact us at info@commonknowledgetrust.com and learn how you can become part of this new approach to pregnancy and childbirth.
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