You can shine during your baby's birth. Be a great birth coach!
Dads ... here's the secret to a successful birth experience ... learn skills together then work with your baby's birth journey no matter how your baby enters the world.
Here are some podcasts for your information. Answering the FAQs fathers-to-be ask.
How to be a great Birth Coach
Why Birth Plans Can Be An Illusion
What women want from you during pregnancy
What should you do with the pain of labor contractions?
Dads ... we share the same body
Birth and Birth Coaching Skills For A Non-laboring Cesarean
Use your Birth Coaching skills even if you have an emergency Cesarean
Learn the observation/listening skills so you know how to help
Birth Coaching Skills For Labor and Vaginal Birth
Practice your Birth Coaching skills
Wow your obstetrician
Wow your midwife
Work with the childbirth assessments,monitoring and procedures
Keep using your Birth Coaching skills when there are childbirth complications
Childbirth is an exercise in plumbing
Giving birth is a journey in Time
Fatherhood skills
Until now most upcoming fathers have felt pretty excluded from an in depth involvement with pregnancy and childbirth.
Here's a list of the Birthing Better Pink Kit skills
Don't be shy about learning how to help your pregnant partner to give birth. You're right, there's no way to know what the birth will be like and you can't practice before. You may have never been to another birth and isn't birth 'woman's business?'
But pregnancy transforms into the activity of giving birth. Your birth coaching skills will totally make sense when it does.
There is no childbirth classes or books that will give you these skills.
Birthing Better childbirth preparation ...
... starts with
- Preparing the pregnant body to let out your baby. That's right ... a big object is going to come out of the pregnant woman's body and preparation is the key. It's like an exercise in plumbing so don't think birth is rocket science. Besides you share the same body as women so these skills are easy to learn together.
... next step
- Learn birth coaching skills. Giving birth is an activity no different (perhaps a wee bit different) from driving a car on a long journey. The driver has to have learned a complex set of skills, practiced them and then use them at every moment they are driving. Your job is to help the birthing woman use her skills even if the journey is challenging.
Being a skilled birth coaching dad-to-be is is truly your first act of responsibility toward your child. Don't under estimate how good you'll feel if you actually know what to do to help your birthing partner to give birth.
Besides your birth professionals will praise you again and again. They wish more fathers-to-be knew how to really be a great birth coach.
Becoming a dad?
There are some other skills you need to learn during pregnancy even before you start preparing for 'The Birth'.
You'll see how your pregnancy skills fit nicely with your Pink Tool Kit birth coaching skills!
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