BETTER CHILDBIRTH SKILLS IMPROVES BIRTH OUTCOMES

BETTER CHILDBIRTH SKILLS IMPROVES BIRTH OUTCOMES

The lack of essential childbirth skills increases the need for medical pain relief.

Having essential, basic skills to drive an automobile is both socially and legally accepted. Childbirth, the most important experience in a baby, mother and father's life seems to only require 'information.' Couples who use The Pink Kit Method for birthing better (registered trademark)prove that childbirth skills improves outcome, heightens personal satisfaction and they self reduce their use of pain relief.

Ms. Andrea Vincent, an independent midwife in New Zealand, has collected statistics since 2000 from her personal practice. With a cesarean rate of 24%, Ms.Vincent was discouraged after 18 years of practice. In 2000 she purchased 12 Pink Kits and began requiring her clients to prepare for childbirth using these resources. For the past 5 years, only 5-7% of couples using The Pink Kit have required caesarean deliveries and the use of pain relief has significantly dropped.

The Pink Kit Method is unique. Having evolved in the United States in the 1970s, The Pink Kit Method focused our shared, human body and how to prepare our pregnant body for childbirth.

Birth is a simple exercise in plumbing: an object (the baby) has to come out of a container (the woman's body). In order to do that, the object must pass through a hole in a tube (the pelvis), open a diaphragm (the cervix) and open an aperture (the vagina). The woman's job is to help her baby's efforts to be born. Easier said then done? Ms. Vincent says that once both the pregnant woman and her partner learn the appropriate skills for each of their roles then childbirth does become easier, more enjoyable or at least more manageable.

Ms. Vincent says she has had to change social attitudes to get her clients to teach themselves The Pink Kit Method. Ms. Vincent says that in all her 20 plus years as a midwife, child birth education has not delivered good, useable, adaptable skills. She believes this has caused women to feel overwhelmed by the pain of labour contractions and naturally tense up and fight the efforts of the baby. Once women and men teach themselves The Pink Kit skills, they work together, work with their baby’s efforts and through the pain … feeling really good about themselves after.

Some well known New Zealand celebrities recommend The Pink Kit. In Woman's Day NZ (26.September 2005) Ms.Petra Bagust says 'one of the most important ways to ensure a positive birth experience in any environment is to be prepared physically and mentally' .She recommends a set of resources called The Pink Kit, which helps couples learn birthing skills. Mr. Norm Hewitt (an ex-All Black) and his wife, Ms. Arlene Thomas (a former World Aerobic Champion) say :'We always mention the Pink Kit to others who we meet as expecting parents and know of 2 couples who have used the PK and thanked us for telling them about it'.

Famous people aren't the only ones who benefit from The Pink Kit Method, because the whole system developed from hundreds and hundreds of ordinary women and men who wanted to have a more positive birth experience in whatever birth situation they experienced. Ms. Vincent says that absolutely every single one of the clients who teach themselves The Pink Kit Method believe they have had a much more positive birth experience than if they had not taught themselves the skills. Women compliment their husbands for how well they coached. Ms. Vincent says that she sees Pink Kit couples have better parenting and partnering relationships from their Pink Kit birth experience.

Could a simple lack of childbirth skills be a major cause of the increasing application of both medical pain relief and operative deliveries? Common Knowledge Trust and The Pink Kit are going to tip people's attitude about birth. If you need to learn to drive your car, you need to learn to drive your birth.

For further information visit www.birthingbetter.com and purchase your Pink Kit Package today.