Making Better Birthing Common Knowledge

Common Knowledge Trust, a registered Charitable Trust, has a new website to show off The Pink Kit Method for birthing better®. Our webmaster had a life changing experience 7 weeks ago when he and his partner gave birth to their beautiful daughter ‘The skills The Pink Kit gave us were a blessing for us as it turns out. They saved us from having a caesarean in our opinion…and you can most certainly be assured that we will do our very best to get the skills out to the world’. There’s nothing like people who help Common Knowledge Trust having their own personal success with the product they help inspire others to purchase and use.

What makes our webmaster’s statement so powerful? Of course, the benefits of using The Pink Kit Method for birthing better® which empowered a couple having their birth baby. First, Common Knowledge Trust’s webmaster is a man … a first time father who felt The Pink Kit gave him the birth coaching skills so he could really help his wife cope with a very intense fast labour when ‘the midwife did virtually nothing to support C's effort to keep relaxed and focused’. Goes to show, pregnant women and expectant fathers need to teach themselves The Pink Kit Method skills so they can help themselves. Second, English was their second language and he comes from another culture. This shows that The Pink Kit skills are universal to all people. Third, they were not seeking a ‘natural’ birth. All their friends back in their home country had had used pain relief and ended up with caesarean deliveries. Yet, by using The Pink Kit skills his wife gave birth naturally without feeling she needed to use pain relief … and she didn’t even need an episiotomy nor did she tear.

Our new website is a labour of love (www.birthingbetter.com) aimed to capture the huge market of expectant parents who actually don’t believe they need to have any birth skills or just need a few breathing techniques. Considering that 3,680,000 babies are born in the US alone, how many parents would benefit from teaching themselves good child birth and birthing coaching skills? Whether a family will give birth in hospital, Birth Centre or at home the woman will have another contraction. When the contractions begin to hurt, she wants her husband, friend or relative to know how to help her cope. At the present time, we play down the importance of good child birth skills. Expectant parents are loaded with information and choice but few have the tools and skills to deal with such a dynamic experience. Birth plans may be the ‘choices’ expectant parents make, having good childbirth and birthing coaching skills should be a choice, rather a necessity.

The primary reason women are using pain relief in labour is that contractions can hurt and they don’t have good skills to help themselves. Imagine how much healthier women and babies would be if they could birth without loading both their systems with medical pain relief. Women believe they can’t cope with the pain and without skills that’s all too true. The natural birth movement suggestions that women should ‘trust’ their body and that they need to get into their primal brain and out of their head. Staying in the ‘primal brain’ without good skills is a hard ask for most of us. With The Pink Kit skills, thousands of Pink Kit families have met the challenge of labour and succeeded.