Every expectant mother or father-to-be wants a POSITIVE BIRTH. Unfortunately there has become such a division in the childbirth conversation that only one type of birth is considered to be positive ... natural home birth. Yeeks ... a hospital birth can't been seen of as a positive much less an elective surgical birth. Good heavens what are we doing to our society when so many families are left out of truly feeling their baby's birth is honored, respected and valued? This has to stop. The hundreds of Birthing Better Pink Kit families who developed The Pink Kit skills in the early 1970s all wanted a positive birth and they all achieved that. This is not rocket science. How did all these families and tens of thousands afterwards do the same thing? Simple. They learned skills to prepare their pregnant body to become a birthing body. This is fun to do, enjoyable, part of becoming a mother and father, a commitment to our baby and a good idea. Then these families learned, practiced and USED their birth and coaching skills to work through their baby's birth no matter how that birth unfolded. That's right. To achieve a positive birth all it takes is to use skills to work through your baby's birth journey. Who knows what will happen to or around you during the birth but with skills you can always achieve a positive birth because you are a skilled birthing mother and coaching dad.

2. Good/Bad BirthGood/Bad Birth
Positive Births for All?Positive Births for All?
Positive birth is not a perfect birthPositive birth is not a perfect birth
Its knowing how to birth betterIts knowing how to birth better
A skills based pregnancy/A skills based pregnancy/
childbirth systemchildbirth system
Bad births can range from
• a woman who was angry her husband didn’t
know how to help her and then stayed angry
with him for months or years to
• a woman who felt that the staff midwife was
rough when she did an internal to
• a woman who was angry because her favorite
midwife was sick the day she gave birth.
There is hope.
Simple: I had toSimple: I had to
know how to birthknow how to birth

3. Positive Births:Positive Births:
PainPain
• Natural pain is part of giving birth
• Pain relief is used by pregnant women
without skills or support partner
• Husband or partner is the most caring birth
professional
• Combine your pink kit skills with your will
power and determination
After a well-managed, painful birth, you will
feel an unbelievable high.

4. Positive Births:Positive Births:
Natural BirthingNatural Birthing
• Natural birth = midwife care and home birth
• Medical birth = Doctors and hospital birth
Everything happens in labour and birth is
NATURAL/NORMAL – Wrong!Wrong!
The Pink Kit Method ofThe Pink Kit Method of
self-knowledge and skillsself-knowledge and skills
changes our concept of “natural birth”
to concern how we manage, cope,
and handle ourselves,
rather than where we are
or what is done to us.

5. Positive Births:Positive Births:
Medical CareMedical Care
Positive birth include
•standard medical assessments,
•monitoring, and procedures
•use of pain relief, specially for surgical birth.
Your Pink Kit skillsPink Kit skills grew from families
who wanted a positive birth experience
within the embrace of medical care.
Couple with skill is working with the labour.

6. Positive Births:Positive Births:
Health IssuesHealth Issues
• Pregnancy with health issues require a great
deal of medical attention
A pregnant woman with heart problem was
able to positively gave birth using Pink Kit
Skills.
This include:
• Internal massage of vagina
• All muscles and tissue inside was soft and
pliable.
With 5 hours labour, she gave birth in the care
on the way to hospital with three pushes
only.

7. Positive Births:Positive Births:
In any PlaceIn any Place
Home, Hospital, birth centre or anywhereHome, Hospital, birth centre or anywhere
A positive birth
is something you work to accomplish, not
something dictated by the choices or lack of
choices about where you give birth.
ComplimentsCompliments
Obstetricians and staff midwives or obstetrical
nurses love to see women coping well with birth
and dads who really know how to help.
Compliments increases your confidence and
chances of having a positive birth.

8. Birthing Better CausesBirthing Better Causes
Less traumaLess trauma
• Common belief – “we have no ability to
make a difference in the process, progress,
or outcome of the birth experience.”
The birth process is as physiologicalThe birth process is as physiological
as hunger and the sexual urge.as hunger and the sexual urge.
Achieving a positive birthAchieving a positive birth
Childbirth should be viewed as an exercise in
plumbing – the journey of a big object out
of a container.
Pink Kit MethodPink Kit Method teaches you how to open your
body by doing the internal work. Activate
the part in your brain that works counter-
intuitively when the naturally occurring pain
urges you to tense up.
Post birth scenario - babies seemed more
relaxed, and settled. Less trauma and
healing is quick.

9. Positive BirthPositive Birth
No Matter the OutcomeNo Matter the Outcome
• Positive birth is achieved through
commitment and took responsibility to
prepare in a thorough manner.
• Our faith gave us the courage. The Pink Kit
gave us the skills.
• Do not compare your experience to anyone
else’s.
• So work toward having your positive birth
by preparing for this phenomenal
experience, learning the skills, and using
them.

10. Birthing Better Pink Kit
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