Common Sense Is Dead

8 December 2007

This is from London Times Obituary of the late Mr or Ms Common Sense ... Thursday 5 August 2007

'Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he/she was, since his/her birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape.

She/he will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as: Knowing when to come in out of the rain; why the early bird gets the worm; Life isn't always fair; and maybe it was my fault. Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don't spend more than you can ear) and reliable strategies (adults, not children are in charge).

(THERE IS MORE)

Common Sense finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement.

Common Sense was preceded in death by his/her parents, Truth and Trust; his wife/husband, Discretion; his/her daughter, Responsibility; and son, Reason.

He is survived by his/her 4 Stepbrothers:

• I Know My Rights.
• I Want It now
• Some Else Is To Blame
• I'm A Victim

Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he/she was gone. If you still remember Common Sense, pass this on. If not, join the majority and do nothing.'

What does this have to do with The Pink Kit Method For Birthing Better®? LOTS!

We have lost the common sense of connecting being pregnant with preparing our birthing body to let our baby out, learning how-to birth/help a woman (her partner) and then use the skills to work with our baby's efforts to be born.

We are told 'common sense' is just to choose what we want in a Birth Plan.

So, if you believe we need to revive Common Sense then get on board and become a wholesaler, affiliate or purchase The Pink Kit Package for your own birth. Common Sense doesn't make any distinction between one birth or another ... pregnancy is the only factor connected to birth so the common sense connection between pregnancy and birth is the preparation and skills to take with you.

I'm Frustrated

6 Dec 2007

I'm totally frustrated today which is never a good place to be.

That's on top of the most amazing changes that are going on with The Pink Kit! So here are the two scenarios.

Recently a first time mother had a very long strenuous labour and 2nd stage. She required augmentation and an episiotomy. This is what the media reported. She had a continuity of care midwife, birthed in hospital and took early discharge after 5 hours. Sadly her baby died the next day.

The media, midwife, doctors and hospital have been trying to attribute blame.

Now, let me ask you a question. If this young woman had prepared her pregnant body for birth ... including her birth canal and learned birth skills for herself and coaching skills for the father ... could some of this be prevented?

Perhaps and sadly their baby might still have died. Perhaps she might not have had such a strenuous, long labour (often due to woman's natural tension when experiencing pain unless they know how to self reduce it) or tight birth canal.

Might this have helped her baby? There should never be blame, shame and guilt around birth however responsibility must be fairly placed. Hindsight is always 20/20.

This is what families taught me since 1970. If there was something we should be doing then we should be doing it! As parents-to-be we have a responsibility, but if we don't know there is something we could do then we just don't know. Right now expectant parents do not know about The Pink Kit Package and ...

Now here's the frustration. There is no social expectation that when you are pregnant you learn how to birth/coach and prepare your body for birth. That needs to change. And YOU are part of the change.

We can do our bit. We've got the resource and we sell via Direct Marketing. YOU can help get these essential skills to expectant parents by becoming a wholesaler/affiliate.

Now here's the good news and hope for the future.

We have a wholesaler in a fairly large city. She was reluctant to sell The Pink Kit Package because she had an inaccurate perception that expectant parents had to be taught these skills rather than taking The Pink Kit Package home and learning on their own.

Early in her efforts she was asked lots of questions. She came back to us and asked for answers. Boy do we have the answers because we hold thousands of Pink Kit stories ... trust me we know how people use the product!

Anyway, she now sells 20 Pink Kit Packages/month and it's growing.

She says families are keen to do something for themselves and love the resource (with all it's imperfections) because it's just skills and how-to for whatever birth they will eventually have.

Now she has her own set of stories that help others know how to use the resource, to get over the imperfections, get on with learning and preparing for the birth of their baby.

So, which way is birth going to go? Will more of you get involved and get this resource out into your community? We hope so.

Right now there are hundreds of thousands of women and men in labour who did not know there is a resource right now they could have used to prepare for the birth of their baby and a set of skills for both of them as the mother and father-to-be that can help them work with their baby's efforts to be born.

Really this must be a good thing ... but we need to get The Pink Kit Package to people for skills to become what the public sees as a common sense relationship between pregnancy and childbirth.

Sadly, we will never know whether these self-learned skills might have made a difference for this family but the statistics already collected do indicate that births are better when skills are learned and used.

Become part of changing the world. Become a Pink Kit wholesaler or affiliate. Our families need you.

Pink Kit Conversations Never Stop

2 December 2007

I've got a draft posting from several weeks ago that I haven't published yet ... another What about ... however, Life has interjected itself and I've been offline for a while.

Over the past few weeks the Trust has been absolutely overwhelmed with emails from women who work as childbirth educators, midwives and doulas. They SO want birth to be good for families and want to teach the PK to their clients or do the work on them.

Patiently I have to continue to reinforce what The PK is all about and WHY.

These women give me one scenerio after another about how the medical profession is doing this or that. They so want birth to be the way they want it that they seem to forget that birth is the way it is. This means each family is faced with whatever is happening during their pregnancy and have to live with that whether they like it or not.

Once we acknowledged that then we could get on with preparing for the birth of our babies with these skills. The worst of the scenerios were all made better when we (the family) could rely on our own set of Pink Kit skills.

We can not stress this enough. All the discussions just lead us astray. When the public sees learning how-to birth and how to coach at a birth when you are pregnant then all families will take those skills and use them.

How do we get people to come on board and help Direct Market this phenomenal resource and grow this new public awareness?

Become a wholesaler, affiliate or purchase The Pink Kit Package for your own birth.

No matter what birth you have you will feel empowered when you work with your baby's efforts to be born with your skills. It's as simple as that. Everything else takes a back seat to your personal experience.