Everyone knows about birth breathing techniques. Without a doubt, birth breathing techniques are the most know set of birth skills. We breathe all the time. 

In the 1960s-70s in the US and other modern countries, the first-ever childbirth preparation classes focused heaps on breathing techniques. Then in the mid1970s, the Natural Birth Movement and famous authors made comments such as: 'We breathe all the time, you'll know how to breathe in labor'.

I sound as though I'm against the Natural Birth Movement. Actually, I've been frustrated for 50 years because birth happens to 100% of pregnant women and not just those who choose, want, or have a natural birth and no one speaks for 100% of pregnant women. Our New Zealand NGO, Common Knowledge Trust, tries to speak for all of us by acknowledging that giving birth is an activity 100% of pregnant women will do and we need skills to do that activity the best we can.

The first birth breathing techniques worked for some and not for others. Why? They were the first and anything new can always be refined and improved. Birthing Better families just refined breathing skills so we had a greater ability to adapt and how we were breathing at any moment and to have sustainable breathing skills as our birth unfolded. 

Rarely in birth do women breathe as they do just going about our business, If it were that simple, birth would not be so life-transforming.

In this lesson, you're going to get 2 PDFs

• Sustainable, Adaptable, And Usable Breathing: How to find your best breathing patterns from the 4 all humans use with the variations within each pattern. As you find your best breathing and your birth-coach understands, they can then help you maintain effective birth breathing no matter what you internally feel and what happens to or around you.
• Directed Breathing: Learn how to actually direct your breathing into areas of your body that has discomfort and will have a positive impact on reducing specific pain or discomfort.

You'll also receive an Mp4 video

• Work With Your Breath: You'll see exactly how to use your Directed Breathing to help your cervix to open. This skill can be used in ANY birth discomfort without exception and becomes a LIfe skill. Your birth-coach will learn how to model breathing to keep you feeling in control

You'll receive an Mp3 audio file

• Practice Breathing With Contractions: Listen to this several times. This audio is both 'practice' for the birthing woman and birth-coach. Listen separately and together. Breathing will make sense. You can hear breathing effective breathing and when a woman is beginning to feel a little and a lot overwhelmed. You will learn how to adjust and adapt to your breathing.