CHILDBIRTH IN ASHEVILLE, NC ABOUT TO CHANGE:

Expectant parents are about to have unique childbirth resources available to them, not found in bookstores. Molly McDonough-Leota will distribute The Pink Kit Method for birthing better® in the Asheville area. Ms. McDonough-Leota was trained as a direct entry midwife in New Zealand in the late 1990s where she met the director and founder of Common Knowledge Trust, a woman known around the world as Wintergreen. Ms. McDonough-Leota learned about the benefits of The Pink Kit Method from the view point of a midwife … how nice it would be when her clients taught themselves good child birth and birth coaching skills. She knew independent midwives had a high burn out rate and didn’t want to be one of them.

Her subsequent pregnancies put a midwifery practice on hold. Her personal experience with The Pink Kit in both her births has now led her to wearing a different hat … distributing The Pink Kit resources to expectant parents in Ashville, NC. ‘Ms. McDonough-Leota says ‘I used The Pink Kit with both of my pregnancies and found it invaluable. It was a user friendly tool.’ Since then, Common Knowledge Trust has produced a number of other Pink Kit resources which add to the benefits both pregnant women and their birth partner … often a husband, boyfriend, friend or relative receive.

The benefits of The Pink Kit Method come in the form of childbirth management skills for labour women and birth coaching skills for her birth partner. Skills such as The Pelvic Clock, one of the exercises in The Pink Kit give women a tool to create deep internal relaxation during and between contractions. This simple exercise helps with dilating the cervix. Ms. McDonough-Leota discovered the benefits of The Pink Kit went far beyond the birth of her children. ‘I used the Directed Breathing to cope with painful breastfeeding with my first child and to dissolve leg cramps in my second pregnancy.’

One of the greatest benefits of The Pink Kit is for fathers-to-be who are seeking real birth coaching skills that work. Ms. McDonough-Leota’s husband immigrated from Samoa at the very end of her of first pregnancy. They used The Pink Kit as their ‘private birth preparation course’ at home ‘in our own speed’. Ms. McDonough-Leota goes on to say ‘ my husband would do the Hip Lifts (which create important mobility in the side to side dimension of the pelvis ) and Sacral Tilts (which creates the important mobility in the front to back dimension of the pelvis) nightly toward the end of my pregnancy when the weight of the baby became more uncomfortable.’

The benefits of The Pink Kit Method begin to speak to themselves when Ms. McDonough-Leota tells the rest of the birth story of her second baby. ‘Our daughter was born ‘sunny-side up after a three hour labor and 9 lbs 6 oz.’ There’s nothing like one’s own birth preparation and child birth skills to help your posterior baby be born! As a mother, Ms. McDonough-Leota is a firm believer in The Pink Kit. Her own experience is now leading her down a different path … a Pink Kit distributor. She knows the benefits to other expectant mother by using The Pink Kit throughout pregnancy, in one’s own home with their partner. As a trained midwife she says hopes other midwives and doctors will ‘introduce the women to The Pink Kit early on in pregnancy instead of as a last ditch effort for mal-positioned babies then they will see even more results from the woman’s confidence and understanding of her own body.’ Ms. McDonough-Leota can be reached via the internet on moksamama@yahoo.com or by phone at 828 713 7089.