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Take your first step today and contact Kate. Now?s the time to reclaim our childbirth skills Family Articles | February 1, 2006 Consider this. In the US, 3,680,000 women give birth each year cheap air max mens , in the UK 700,000 do, Melbourne, Australia 58,000 and the same in New Zealand. Where Common Knowledge Trust is located 1,000 women give birth. New Zealand is unique. In 1995 midwives became autonomous cheap air max womens , lead maternity carers.
Direct entry 3 year educational programs were set up, they are paid by Government to provide ante-natal, delivery and post-natal care within the concept of continuity of care. Women can choose birth home or hospital with the same midwife. There is no shared care. Over 85% of all pregnant N Z women have a continuity of care midwife. Women choosing to birth in hospital, even when referred to a specialist, will have team midwifery care. Ideal isn?t it? Since 1995, the caesarean rate has doubled to over 27% nationally. What?s wrong with the picture?
In modern societies where blame cheap nike air max shoes , shame and guilt are raging emotions often associated with birth, changing the system doesn?t seem to have worked. It?s so easy to ask??so who is to blame?? Gotcha.
I want a new blue car to drive. I?m planning chicken, salad and apple pie for dinner. When my husband and I have sex this weekend, I want to have the most delicious orgasm. I?ll breastfeed. These sentences have two elements. The most obvious are the choices. The less obvious are the skills. Driving is a learned skill, so is cooking, making love well and breast feeding. Within these skills are some that relate to natural physiological human urges: hunger cheap nike air max , sex, breastfeeding. Somehow we know that we have, or haven?t or need to develop skills around these natural physiological experiences. Birth is no different.
Common Knowledge Trust is located in New Zealand, yet all The Pink Kit Method for birthing better? resources that are and will become available developed in the US in the 1970s when ?choices? for expectant couples opened up possibilities unheard of for our mothers and grandmothers. Little focus has been on the skills birthing women and coaching partners need, although Lamaze, Bradley and Birthworks have offered couples tools and skills to work with the birth plans or choices couples are making.
There are so many choices for modern women and such a focus on individuality that we have lost sight of something very important. We are all one humanity. Every woman throughout Time or Place on this planet has given birth out the same hole. Birth is essentially the same process: one contraction following another until something comes out our vagina. We share the same body and can prepare our birthing body the same way. We discovered this in the 1970s. Stick to the shared body and share a common language. This is The Pink Kit Method for birthing better?. and every expectant couple can teach themselves in the privacy of their own home cheap air max shoes , along with whatever they are doing to plan or prepare for childbirth. The skills adapt to your individual situation, because they are your skills!
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