COVID-19 Quick Online Birth Skills Class for Expectant Mothers and Fathers

Without a doubt, you are going to birth your baby just because you are pregnant now. even during this terrifying time. Birthing better skills were created by hundreds of fathers and mothers in the early 1970s because of their birth stories. Since then birthing better skills were fundamental to the birth stories of tens of thousands of pregnant/birthing families.

This quick skills birth Course is a story. You should change the order of the chapters.

Fathers/Others: Men equally developed these skills:

Pick the order of the skills you want to learn because your two jobs are:

To prepare your pregnant partner's body to birth your baby. Giving birth is an exercise in plumbing: A big object has to come out of a container. Help to open that container, create mobility and internal softness.
To help the birthing woman to cope, manage, work through, deal with, handle, stay on top of and feel in control as she does this life-transforming no matter all circumstances.

Mothers:

You are the only one doing the birth.

Learn the skills you feel you need first and build your confidence and capability
If you are between 24-36 weeks pregnancy then Prepare your pregnant body first
If you're between 36-42+ weeks learn the birth coping skills first.

Teach each other what you’ve learned.

The Chicken or The Egg?

Cope? When you're doing this one-off, the dynamic, life-transforming activity you want to cope, manage, work through, deal with, handle. stay on top of and feel in control no matter where you birth, who is present, your circumstances, the type of birth, or what happens to and around you.

You got pregnant to have a baby, not a type of birth
Giving birth is an activity not just something that happens to you
Reduce or prevent increased medical interventions and medically unnecessary Caesareans because you don't cope well, get tired and no one wants you to suffer.
You and you alone are creating the birth story you will remember
During the activity of birthing your baby, your biggest choice is how you breathe in and how you breathe out.
You will birth better being skilled in all birth without exception

Prepare your pregnant body? No matter how you birth, prepare your body to birth your baby.

Create space inside your body
Create mobility and softness Inside your pelvis
Prepare your birth canal
Use these skills during the activity of birthing your baby

The chicken and the egg meet: If you cope and manage well if you open your body easily then you may be able to prevent or reduce long 1st/2nd stage of labor that leads to more medical interventions and perhaps medically unnecessary C-sections that will keep you in the hospital longer with this virus around.

Your type of birth

Non-laboring Cesarean:

Enjoy preparing your body to birth your baby because pregnancy is infrequent and you're building a relationship to your baby and family members
Learn the coping skills and use them driving to the hospital (your labor), being prepped (your transition) and surgery (your birth)
Also use your skills when anxious, nervous, overly excited and feel overwhelmed or disconnected

Labor and Vaginal Birth:

Whether at home or hospital, you want to birth effectively and cope well so you don't end up with more interventions and medically unnecessary C-sections.
If women don't cope well, the medical profession does not want you to 'suffer'.If your labor and delivery are long, the medical profession doesn't want to risk you or your baby's well-being.
Working with your midwife or doula. Your responsibility is to have your own set of skills to birth your baby and not rely on them to be your support or coach or even be there.
You must become skilled birthing women.

Labor to Unplanned Cesarean

Use your birth skills throughout labor, while being prepped and in surgery
This is your baby's birth regardless of the type of birth

VBAC:

You absolutely must prepare your body for birth
You absolutely must learn to cope, manage, work through, deal with, handle, stay on top of and feel in control
Too many Caesareans are caused by women who have not coped well and who have a long 1st and 2nd stage because the woman has not prepared her body to open up

Author

Common Knowledge

Common Knowledge Trust is a New Zealand registered not-for-profit via New Zealand Charities Services (CC24400). We are committed to a societal message that it's normal and natural in pregnancy that all expectant fathers and mothers self-learn birth and birth-coaching skills then use those skills to work through the activity of birthing their...