Pink Kit Stories Keep Coming

This is an enquiry e-mail via http://www.birthingbetter.com from:
21 March 2009

We received this email today from a woman who met Wintergreen two years ago. Here's her story and our response.

Hi Wintergreen
My name is Melissa. I am a friend of J.M. We met close to 2 years ago at a lovely house in La Jolla, CA.

I do not know if you remember me. Anyhow I have some feedback about the pink kit. The packaging looks different I was wondering if any of the content was changed? If so what was changed?

I want to tell you. I personally love the realness of the pink kit. Thanks to you I can hold my head up high when I talk about my birth. It was such an empowering experience.

I find myself telling every pregnant person about the pink kit, friends, relatives and strangers. Sadly, I just don't feel like it is enough. I would really like to share this information with more people. Do you have a teacher's program or do you know of any way I can help spread this knowledge faster?

Thank you, Melissa

This is our response.

Great story ... you'll find it on our blog shortly with first names only.

What is your partner's name? I remember speaking to two or three of you guys but I'll be damned if I remember your face ... send a photo.

Also if you do Facebook, we've just put up a page and you can add comments and if you do other social networking sites then tell everyone! If you do forums, chat rooms ... anything on the internet spreads the word as fast as lightening. So, that's one avenue that never ends.

When we met what did I tell everyone? Do this for yourselves! That's why we have this resource (same in new packaging but without the hard copy book ... we ran out!).

The PKPackage is your teacher.

But you want to do something and that's why we have wholesale accounts. You can register and purchase 3-20 PKPs and receive 25% discount or over 20 and get a 40% discount. There is also a sales flier you can print off and hang up everywhere.

We want people like yourself to get this resource out there for sure and believe it or not you will do much better selling it or getting stores to carry it than trying to teach it. This is the primary reason: when you sell it, it can go to anyone.

We don't quite have a sales Powerpoint yet but we do have a PP on Slideshare that you can download and get couples together to tell them why they have to do the work themselves.

Your message is well defined from your own experience ... do the work yourself and you get the benefits. Over 40 years we know if The PK is taught, families don't bother. That's the reality so ...

We want you to get involved but just help you think differently. And think about this. There are 3,680,000 births in the US/year ... having all types of birth. The only thing that all pregnant families have in common is that 100% will give birth. That means The PKPackage is for all pregnant families just because they all will give birth.

You can advertise, write articles, talk to people, tell them your story and why self learning was so important to you and your partner. When you have the resource available people purchase. Puts sales fliers up in stores, talk on the radio, write articles for magazines or newspapers. Go talk to other groups and take the PKP with you.

Please feel free to contact me directly and discuss everything that's in your mind. Did you have a boy or girl? Name? Photo?

If you decide to register just to to www.birthingbetter.com and look at top menu for 'wholesalers' and there is a registration. That permits you to order online and get your discount right away after you get confirmation of the registration.

The whole world is open for you to get this around!

I'll be in the US from June onward for a year in Oregon.

Great to hear these stories. They are important. You are important and we want you to join your energy with ours. The more people who get this resource into communities the more the word will spread.

if you have other friends who want to have a stream of income then let them know. People with websites can join our affiliate program, put our banner up and get a 15% commission on click through sales and another 10% of click through sales if they sign up other websites .... we ship.

So, absolutely. How can we help you get started?

Pilates AND Pink Kit breathing

18 March 2009

We received an email today from a family using The Pink Kit Package. The pregnant woman said:

'The breathing reminds me little of Pilates'

This is the Pink Kit response.

With Pilates the goal is to have a very strong core. This is good! In fact, after birth Pilates is wonderful to do.

So the below comments are not anti-Pilates but just highlighting the difference in the breathing and the profound difference in the goal.

If you're pregnant now and doing Pilates then must also learn your Pink Kit breathing and understand why you want to change both your breathing and your awareness of what you're doing inside your pelvis.

The Pink Kit breathing ... in all it's forms is used to create space, soften, open and relax inside your pelvis.

To understand this you must first thing ask yourself this question. Do you think that pulling up on your perineum will help or hinder getting something the size of a grapefruit down through your pelvis and out of your crotch? The answer is absolutely ... you hinder your baby's efforts to be born if you have, create or store tension inside your body.

One father thought during their first pregnancy that his wife had to have 'strong' muscles to push out their baby (she had a c/s). Once they went over the PKP he realized that concept was absolutely wrong and what she needed to do was open up and let her baby out. In order to do that she had to learn to soften and relax!

So Pilates breathing is good for after the birth to re-strengthen your core, put your hips right and all the soft tissue inside your perineum but that intentional tensing up and drawing up is terrible for birth preparation or giving birth.

So, your Pink Kit skills are specific for preparing your pregnant body to give birth ... whether a natural birth or a medical one.

If you are planning a Caesarean delivery without a labour you can just totally enjoy preparing your body for the birth of your baby.

We should all enjoy doing this in the right manner and feel confident about the skills.