Birthing Better

FAQs about Common Knowledge Trust and Birthing Better with The Pink Kit Method®

What is the mission of Common Knowledge Trust?
Why Birth skills are so vital to learn
What is the philosophy behind Birthing Better with The Pink Kit Method®?
The importance of a skilled birthing population
Learn The Pink Kit skills in your own home
Birthing better for everyone
How birthing skills empowers birthing women
Building expectant families with birthing skills
Should pregnant women trust birth?
Does Birthing Better fit with other types of childbirth preparation?
Is childbirth safe?
Does Birthing Better fit well with all birth professionals?
Does Birthing Better work well with childbirth interventions?
Where does birth satisfaction come from?
Fathers-to-be make great Birth Coaches
Fathers-to-be can read birth contractions
Knowing the inside shape of your pelvis matters.
Your tailbone ... is it long or short?
Preparing your baby's birth canal is essential
Birthing Better with your posterior baby
Learn to read your baby's messages
Birthing Better skills spill over into Life
The Pink Kit skills morph
Ten years of Birthing Better statistics

Common Knowledge Trust gets so many questions about Birthing Better with The Pink Kit Method®.

The first question pregnant moms and expectant fathers want answered: 'How does The Pink Kit Method differ from childbirth classes, other forms of childbirth preparation, childbirth education or from the information I'll get in the huge number of pregnancy books available?'

Here are 5 reasons:

1. The Birthing Better Pink Kit Method is only all about skills ... the skills all expectant moms and dads-to-be nee to prepare your pregnant body to become a birthing body and the birth skills and coaching skills you both need so you can work with your baby's efforts to be born ... in whatever birth you have!

   1. One hundred percent of pregnant women will give birth!
   2. Birth is an activity YOU'LL do ... skills help you do it, information helps you plan.
   3. You want your birth coach to help you.
   4. You want a positive birth experience.
   5. Skills can adapt even when Birth Plans change

2. The Birthing Better Pink Kit Method is the only pregnancy and childbirth system that come from mothers and fathers like yourself, used for over 40 years in all births.

   1. The birth and birth coaching skills are based on our human body which we all share.
   2. Birthing Better skills work whether you labor and have a vaginal birth; labor and have an emergency Cesarean or have a non-laboring Cesarean.
   3. You can't guarantee you'll have a better birth but you can guarantee you'll birth better when you use your skills to work with your baby's birthing process.
   4. If your labor ends with an emergency Cesarean continue to use your birth skills and birth coaching skills.
   5. If you are going to have a non-laboring Cesarean still enjoy preparing your body, use your childbirth skills on way to hospital, while being prepped and during surgery.

1. The Pink Kit Method is the only pregnancy and childbirth method that does not divide pregnancy and birth.

1. 1. Pregnancy is always the time to prepare your pregnant body for the birth of your baby.
   2. Pregnancy is the time to learn the skills to work with your baby's process of being born.
   3. Your baby's birth is always being born. You can always help his/her process.
   4. Taking time to prepare for the birth of your baby brings you closer as a family.
   5. Using your childbirth skills together always brings you closer as a family.

1. The Pink Kit Method will not give you 'information', discuss Birth Plans or the pros/cons of 'choice'.

1. 1. Go elsewhere for 'information'! Get your skills in your Pink Kit Package!
   2. Go elsewhere to make Birth Plans about what you want or don't want.
   3. Learn to make another Birth Plan about how you prepared and the birth skills your obstetrician or midwife will see you use.
   4. Don't be unprepared to work with your baby.
   5. Move from becoming a mother and father to being a mother or father as skilled people.

1. A Birthing Better Pink Kit Birth Story is all about 'what we did' not 'what happened.'

1. 1. Learning to give birth and to help at a birth is like driving a car ... you learn a complex set of skills, practice to perfect those skills then use them when you drive your car on a journey.
   2. Your Birthing Better skills work alongside all medical assessments, monitoring and procedures.
   3. Your Birthing Better skills will support your home birth and they can be used if you transfer to hospital.
   4. You'll go into birth feeling confident rather than confused and uncertain.
   5. You'll come out of your birthing experience incredibly proud of yourselves even if you didn't like the experience or get the birth you wanted.