User talk:The Pink Kit Method

The Pink Kit Method for birthing better™ developed in the United States in the early 1970s. Childbirth choices were being made more available to families then in previous years. One of the major changes was the inclusion of fathers in labour and delivery. Lamaze classes offered mothers and fathers breathing and relaxation classes. Fathers now had birth coaching skills. The Pink Kit Method developed from pregnant women and fathers to be who wanted a greater range of skills.

The Pink Kit Method remained focused on our human birthing body. Every pregnant woman is an individual faced with her own unique birth choices, health issues and personal beliefs. However, she also shares the same human body with all other women. In fact, the strength of The Pink Kit Method comes from the fact that men also share the same human body. This means that fathers to be can feel inside their own body both tension and relaxation. This allows fathers to become excellent childbirth coaches because they can learn to see and hear whether their partner is having trouble coping with the pain of labour and creating internal tension.

The Pink Kit Method has four cornerstones of self knowledge. The first cornerstone focuses on the birthing body. Both pregnant women and fathers can learn how to maintain an open, mobile birthing body. In the first cornerstone, parents to be learn how to create and maintain inner relaxation. Child birth at its simplest is an exercise in plumbing. An object (baby) must pass through and out of a container (the woman’s body). In order to come out of the container, the object must pass through the inside of a tube (the woman’s pelvis), open a diaphragm (the woman’s cervix) the open an aperture (the woman’s vagina).

The role of the woman in labour is to help her baby’s efforts to be born and to pass through her container. The best way to do that is to maintain internal softness and relaxation as well as mobility in the tube (her pelvis). Because child birth contractions are often connected to pain, it is very easy for women to tense up in response to the pain in labor. Tensing up in labor is more likely to occur when a pregnant woman does not have good child birth skills which work in absolutely all birth situations.

The Pink Kit Method is a universal way to prepare for child birth and child birth skills. Although every woman will find themselves in different birth situations, every woman will have a series of contractions which become more intense as labor progresses. Whether a woman births in hospital, home birth or Birth Centre and whether she has a natural birth or medical birth, with The Pink Kit Method will have taught herself good child birth skills.

The second cornerstone of The Pink Kit Method is how to specifically prepare the aperture (the woman’s vagina). Preparing the birth canal can prevent or reduce potential birth trauma to that part of a woman’s body and her baby … by not delaying the final stage of delivery.

The third cornerstone of The Pink Kit Method is the Managing Skills. Every pregnant woman and her birth partner want to know how to use their Pink Kit skills in all parts of the labour and delivery. Managing skills also helps the couple to work as a team in and around all the child birth assessments, monitoring and procedures which the doctor or midwife will do during labour and delivery.

The fourth cornerstone of The Pink Kit Method is Breathing, Language and Touch. These are three human activities that are so much part of our human life that most people can’t imagine that there are specific ways to breathe, communicate and touch in labour. In this fourth cornerstone the birth role and coach role is very defined. There are 3 primary roles or jobs in childbirth. The woman’s job is to do the labour. Her birth partner’s job is to be her birth coach. The birth professional’s job is to do the necessary assessments, monitoring and procedures which are required.

Unlike other child birth education organizations which train professionals to teach their child birth classes, Common Knowledge Trust which produces The Pink Kit Method for birthing better™. Common Knowledge Trust holds the stories of thousands of families and has compiled The Pink Kit Method so that all parents to be can teach themselves the positive birth skills used by mothers and fathers since the 1970s in the privacy of their own home. The Pink Kit Method also helps mothers and fathers to recognize the behaviours in labour that women will use when they are having difficulty coping with the pain of childbirth and how her birth coach can help her maintain her focus by using her good self learned child birth skills. (www.birthingbetter.com)