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Healing Traumatic Birth Pink Kit Stories
You can heal from birth trauma.
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'There is no doubt that when I fell pregnant with our first child
that I was very opinionated about birth and extremely judgemental
toward other women who did not birth at home, in water with a wonderful
midwife. My labour humbled me. I never coped with the pain. I always
thought that a natural birth was going to be exstatic and about one
wave or rush after another. No! It hurt. I never coped. Everyone tried
to get me to get it together, but the contractions came close together
and seemed to last forever, so I never got on top of them. I did have
my baby at home, but there was nothing romantic about it or even
inspirational. I felt so traumatized I didn't even want to hold our
baby. Some years later, I met another woman who had used The Pink Kit
and was a body worker. She took me through much of the information and
I went through the rest on my own. It was only after working with The
Pink Kit that I could forgive myself and let the energy go. I'm
probably a more compassionate woman because of my experience and
certainly more mature'.
Isla T … it took a long time in Canada
'Our first baby was born in hospital. It was horrible. The second birth
I got a midwife and planned a home birth. It was horrible. By the time
I got pregnant with our third baby, I realised I had to learn to birth.
The Pink Kit was the answer! Our third baby was born in hospital, 9
weeks premature after having a bleed off and on for three weeks. But we
just used the skills with all the stuff the doctors insisted (and we
wanted), but it still could have been very intrusive and irritating.
So, my dear hubby and I focused on ourselves, breath, communication and
touch. It was the best birth for all of us.
Samantha … special angel
'Can you believe I had 10 children and hated every single labour. I can
remember that at the end of each pregnancy I would get hysterical. I
was so frightened. At the age of 65, I attended a Pink Kit weekend for
pregnant couples. After all these years, I finally healed from all that
trauma.
Reanna …Feeling wonderful in Australia
‘I had my children many years ago when we didn’t have choices. My
births were quite miserable really and I’ve really carried those
feelings for years. In fact, I think that I never really felt close to
my children because of those feelings. When my daughter became
pregnant, all those feelings came up. She wanted to know about birth
and I couldn’t tell her anything. We watched The Pink Kit together and
had lots of laughs and cries. We shared the same body and truly
understood our common woman’s experience. I was at her birth which was
so different from mine. There were still a great deal of assessments
done and required procedures that the staff did; howver, my daughter
didn’t react to them as I had. It was really healing for us both.’ Mrs. G. Grange … Grandmother in Canada
‘We’d had 7 children and we used The Pink Kit because there were
actually blanks in all those births where I wasn’t connected to the
birth or my husband was connecting to me. This was going to be our last
birth so we used The Pink Kit. Unfortunately, I developed food
poisoning and our baby went into distress. He was delivered by
emergency cesarean one month early. My husband and I found the skills
in the kit invaluable for staying connected. Our son, it turns out, has
an undiagnosed genetic disorder. At two he still doesn’t sit up.
However, by using The Pink Kit, we have found many of those skills have
come in handy on a daily basis and the communication between my husband
and myself is rock solid.’
Tomas Family … NZ
‘I was so traumatized after the birth of our daughter for all sorts of
reasons. Everything went wrong including breastfeeding, having an
unsettled baby, my relationship with her father. I was desperate. My
friend gave me The Pink Kit and something inside me changed. I took
charge of my part of the problem which was my tension. Thanks to the
kit, I’ve worked to heal myself, my relationship to my baby and
partner. We’re really looking forward to our next pregnancy.’
P. C … Mother UK
'My 7 year old watched The Pink Kit with me. I had felt very
traumatized after her birth and my wonderful mother gave me The Pink
Kit because she thought I needed to do some healing around birth before
I got pregnant again. My daughter mapped her pelvis and found the best
positions. She knows more at 7 than I did when I was in labour. The
Pink Kit could change birth for everyone.'
Sheila … Mum USA
‘Being traumatized made me feel unreal. I remember looking at myself in
the mirror and asking ‘who’s that?’ I no longer recognized myself. That
was back then. This is now. That trauma led me to The Pink Kit, now I
encourage all pregnant women in my local area to use it for their
births. There is still a great deal of explaining to do. Women feel
that if they go to hospital there is nothing they can do, or they just
trust their doctors to take care of them. I’ve finally developed the
common language from Common Knowledge Trust and I explain to them that
they will still breathe, so learn the directed breathing. Of course,
their doctor will take care of them, yet I explain that they are doing
the labour. The feedback is great and they tell their friends. Like the
Trust, the greatest feedback comes from how great the dads feel by
becoming great coaches’.
June M … Mum NZ
'When I went through The Pink Kit in my fourth pregnancy, I could go
back and look through the past births and see what I didn't do well. I
particularly noticed that I leaned forward a great deal and never
really understood why the labours seemed to go off. Now I know'.
Karen .. Redoing the past NZ
‘It took me years to realize that the images I had of harming my baby
came from feeling angry about my birth. The Pink Kit restored my faith
in myself. I used it before I got pregnant again. I not only healed my
past trauma, I also now knew how I could take responsibility for myself
so I didn't have another traumatic birth no matter what happened. Some
people would have considered my second birth to also be traumatic, but
it wasn't to me thanks to The Pink Kit. I worked through every bit of
labour with MY skills even though I required a great deal of medical
intervention’. Geri … Mom USA
‘Without The Pink Kit my wife and I would have eventually split up. She
was so upset about the birth of our first child and blamed me for not
protecting her. I really didn’t know how to. It’s hard to stand up to
doctors telling you that your baby’s life is at risk. With The Pink
Kit, we just focused on working together regardless of what might
happen. We had a great birth next time. We just focused on ourselves.’
Henri … Dad Australia
‘I was adamant that I didn’t want any pain relief. Having read about
the dangers to my child, I just believed birth was natural and I’d be
able to cope. My labour was long, tiring and I begged for something.
Then afterward, I felt that I had let myself down big time. Using The
Pink Kit showed me how I actually didn’t know how to relax at all and
that many of the positions that everyone was saying were the best,
actually closed me. I’m so grateful for these skills and know how
precious our common knowledge really is.’
Shiloh ... Mom USA
'My focus after my failed birth was to blame absolutely everything and
every body. I never looked at my own part of it. The Pink Kit gently
showed me that 90% of my failure was due to my ignorance. I trusted
birth, but I didn't have a clue how to manage labour and I didn't. No
wonder I was irritable with every body. They didn't know how to help me
help myself because they didn't know either.
Prue ... Ah shucks, USA |
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