how skilled birthing families impresses birth professionals

How would skilled birthing mothers and skilled coaching

dads impact all Birth Providers?

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Debates center broadly around…

• Natural vs Medical

• Doctor vs Midwife

• Home vs Hopsital




• What if there is a social factor rather than political debate that has not come to the forefront.

• What if the debates are much less about where a woman births or who is the birth provider and more about what expectant parents need to do for themselves, regardless of where or with whom they give birth?




• What if a social change could improve all birth professionals’ enjoyment of their work with birthing families?

• What if a social change could stop much of the political debate or at least stop the ‘either/or’ approach to birth care?

• This can happen when we reframe the relationship between pregnancy and childbirth from the point of view of expectant parents.




• Obstetricians and midwives have all the skills to care for a woman in birth.

• Birth providers are highly trained from extensive education.

• Is there education that is connected to expectant parents?

• Unfortunately even though birth is such a big event in any family, the current assumption strongly implies there is nothing a woman can do about a future event that is unknown.

• Childbirth education is all about gathering information and making choices rather than being skilled to give birth.




• Given this attitude, which is promoted by both Obstetricians and midwives alike, families are left with either ‘do what the Doctor says’ or create Birth Plans to try to take some control over an experience that is surrounded closely by professionals.

• Let’s consider having the appropriate birth and coaching skills that give families the ability to feel in control by how they work with their baby’s efforts to be born




• Birth is a situation where you don’t know exactly what will happen until the event itself.

• Childbirth has a 100% chance of unfolding.

• Let’s consider the benefits of growing a social acceptance that connects pregnancy, preparing for birth, learning birth and coaching skills then using the skills during the birth.

• Birth is an action word and the actions any birthing woman can take, comes from the skills she learns




• Because all women are human beings and all men have essentially the same body this means there can be a set of shared, common knowledge skills.

• Regardless of where or with whom a woman gives birth, she has to breathe and her body will be in some position.

• Skills such as: Directed Breathing, the Pelvic Clock or Deep Touch Relaxation, Kate’s Cat, Hip Lift and Sacral Manoeuvre any woman can learn and then use, with the necessary care, assessments, monitoring and procedures available.




• In reality every birth provider loves to see a woman have a great birth experience. Now that fathers or partners are encouraged to help at birth, all birth professionals really love to see men do something practical and helpful.

• Does having a skilled birthing population hinder or endanger the birthing process?




• Preparing for birth, learning skills then using them should work well with maternity services.

• When more expectant parents arrive in your care with confidence, capability, maturity and ability to work with their baby’s efforts to be born this can make your job much easier.

• Having a reframing of our social relationship between pregnancy and birth, will also have a positive impact on how families feel about their birth experience, they feel more in control no matter what type of birth they have.




• Midwives want more ‘natural’ births and Obstetricians want ‘safe and healthy mothers and babies’.

• Placing a greater responsibility on expectant parents to prepare for birth, learn skills then use those skills in whatever birth they have can become part of the childbirth solution.

• Although breathing is something we do all the time, childbirth is called ‘labour’ for a good reason.

• It’s hard work.

• When we have the right skills for the task, we feel more in control and better about our effort.

• When a birth requires a surgical delivery by cesarean, any family can still enjoy preparing for birth and using their skills

• Birth will always be an action no matter what; you can use these skills during surgery and recovery.




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