Ck trust in new Zealand

 Think about this. 3,680,000 women give birth annually in the United States, 700,000 in the United Kingdom, 58,000 in Melbourne, Australia, and the same number in New Zealand. 1,000 women give birth where Common Knowledge Trust is located. Only New Zealand exists. In 1995 midwives became autonomous, lead maternity carers. Direct entry 3 year educational programs were set up, they are paid by Government to provide antenatal, delivery and post-natal care within the concept of continuity of care. Women can choose to give birth at home or in hospital with the same midwife. Shared care is not available. A continuity of care midwife is employed by over 85% of all pregnant women in New Zealand. Women choosing to birth in hospital, even when referred to a specialist, will have team midwifery care. Ideal isn't it? The national rate of caesarean sections has doubled since 1995, reaching over 27%. Whats wrong with the picture? In modern societies where blame, shame and guilt are raging emotions often associated with birth, changing the system doesnt seem to have worked. It's simple to inquire, so who is to blame? Gotcha. I want to drive a brand-new blue car. Im 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 won't breastfeed. There are two parts to these sentences. 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, sex, breastfeeding. Somehow we know that we have, or havent or need to develop skills around these natural physiological experiences. Birth is no different. Although Common Knowledge Trust is based in New Zealand, all of the Pink Kit Method's current and future better birthing resources were developed in the United States in the 1970s, when options for expecting couples opened up possibilities that were previously unheard of for our mothers and grandmothers. Although Lamaze, Bradley, and Birth works have provided couples with tools and skills to work with the birth plans or choices they are making, little attention has been paid to the skills that birthing women and coaching partners require. 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. The same hole has been used by every woman on this planet at every time and place. The process of giving birth is basically the same: one contraction after another until something comes out of our vagina. We can prepare our bodies for birth in the same way because we share a body. We discovered this in the 1970s. Stick to the shared body and share a common language. This is the Pink Kit Method, which is a better way to give birth, and any couple who is about to give birth can learn it by themselves in the privacy of their own home, in addition to whatever else they are doing to plan or prepare for the birth. The skills adapt to your individual situation, because they are your skills! Many birth plans have been foiled by the unexpected. Birth plans are about choice. Birth is about reality and the present moment. Combine our own abilities with our choices. We have the ability to adapt to any circumstance when the unanticipated occurs. We hear the phrase "There is no way to prepare for birth" so frequently because the unanticipated is common. We do not know what our labour will be like, if well birth on our due date or go over 4 weeks, whether our water bag will leak for 2 weeks, our birth professional be sick, the hot water didnt work to fill the pool, our baby turned breech and were faced with a c/s and on and on. We learned in the 1970s with skills, we can use them in all situations. Nothing has to stop us. We modify. The Pink Kit Method for birthing better can become the common knowledge skills for expectant couples worldwide. Because you make the resources accessible to your community, this will occur. We don't need to learn about our birthing bodies from a group of professionals; we can do it at home. We (both mother and father) can all learn how to Map the pelvis, know what positions keep us open, to relax inside The Pelvic Clock, to do Kates Cat, Hip Lifts, Sit Bone Spreads, use a common language and common touch at any birth. And theres more!. Five years of statistics show that couples who learn and use the skills have about 7% c/s. Some of those couples said they did the work, but really didnt and gave up in labour. This is compared to the 27% all having access to midwifery car, childbirth education, natural therapies etc. Even in the midst of all the assessments, monitoring, and procedures that are being carried out, childbirth can change one labor at a time and one contraction at a time. Women would go bush if they wanted a natural birth. We take aspirin for headaches, antibiotics, immunise the normal and natural is no longer. If birth was so natural, why are direct entry midwives trained for 3 years? Birth is natural. It will happen at the end of pregnancy. If you're planning a labouring birth, then become skilled. If you're planning or needing a non-labouring birth then treat yourself to becoming skilled and use the skills in the birth of your child. Every expectant parent can become involved in birth preparation and have a more positive and fulfilling birth. Dont expect perfect.

The New Kid on the Block: 30 Years and Growing When couples attend Pink Kit classes, they often ask, Why should we be preparing for birth? We have made our birth plan and chosen our care provider. What is important is that the women is driving the car, not just taking a journey by car, which can imply she is the passenger. What were trying to get people to understand is that developing birthing skills is a necessity just like learning to drive a car. These couples include people planning home births with independent midwives and people planning hospital births with continuity of care team midwives or a GP or obstetrical specialist. Common Knowledge Trust (CKT) has discovered that analogies may help answer this question. The Journey First, we tell them that labor is like driving somewhere new. Even if you've taken this road before, each journey is different and unknown. It can be very strenuous and demanding. It might be long. You might get tired. You might be accompanied by a few people. Throughout this journey, others might try to help you out in order to safeguard you and make certain you reach the end safely. Some professionals might suggest that you skip the journey. Circumstances might actually require you to do that. Other professionals will encourage you to take the journey because it might become a highlight of your life. Then we ask, what is the difference between that scenario and labour? After many responses, we tell them the real difference is that you have already learned to drive a car. If you had to take such a journey and didnt know how to drive, would you be willing to spend eight to 12 weeks learning beforehand? Where is the birth professional in this analogy? Some are encouraging you to make the journey and others might think its too dangerous, or you might think you dont need to do it, fly instead. The birth professional is usually the low or high tech mechanic. Next, the couples talk about their relationships to the professional care provider. Their midwives are encouraging them to choose a birth plan. They have decided where to birth, and the doctors are often telling them what they need. As a result, we offer comparisons to other typical professional relationships. We are all passive when we go to the dentist, yet most of us take care of our teeth every day. If we took this approach to birth, we would prepare beforehand, but in the presence of the professional we would be passive. Not ideal. Giving birth is more like learning to sing, dance, paint, throw pots or play an instrument. We probably seek a professional teacher. Yet we have to do the work to learn, as well as show the teacher our progress. If we took this approach to birth, then the birth professionals would be our musical instrument instructors, yet even midwives dont often take that role. The Pink Kit is the driving lessons, so this analogy still doesnt give us a clear understanding of what other similar professional relationship is like labour and being cared for. When the class has gone through all of the analogies, the couples start to realize that only the woman will give birth. The father, partner, friend or relative is there to help her on the journey, which will occur around and through whatever professional care they receive. The Set Since The Pink Kit information developed in the U.S. in the late 1970s and 1980s, thousands of couples have used the preparation and then laboured in hospital. Having done the preparation ahead of time, the couples work together with directed breathing; they use positions that keep the woman open. There is been a great deal of best positions that have been theoretical and not worked for women, because they didnt know enough about their bony structure or how the muscles reacted to positions. They do hip lifts and sit-bone spreads and carry out sacral rocking so their sacrum is mobile. This developed instead of the counter pressure on the sacrum that closes the space the baby needs, although it relieves the back pain. Learning to keep the sacrum mobile, gives the baby room and the woman relieved regardless of assessments, monitoring or other procedures going on around them. They just go on working through the process of labour. Staff and doctors often comment on what a good labour they had. Werent they lucky? One woman responded: I wanted to grab that person by the neck and shout, ‘You dont know how hard We worked for that good birth!’ The Skills When we inquire about what their parents taught them about labor management, the majority of couples respond, "None," "Not much," or "It hurts, you'll get through it." If they havent been taught by their mothers and fathers how to manage labour, where are they getting the information, and how useful is it? Whenever people need to accomplish a new task, its vitally important that they learn appropriate skills and then apply them. They are unaware of the necessary skills because so few people have witnessed births. A woman will use her breath sustainably, develop self-relaxation responses, enter labor, and accept the process if she perceives her contractions as manageable. If she perceives them as painful or very, very painful, she will respond with ragged breathing, tensing her body and using other struggling behaviours. Lessons that CKT teaches expectant couples—lessons they will eventually pass on to their own children—are sustainable behaviors that can be implemented regardless of how the woman perceives her labor, especially when she perceives it to be painful. The fact is that these are the universal skills that any woman can use, not just another theory or technique. People are continually saying that what they learned in childbirth education classes went out the window, which means, to date, those skills aren't universal enough or not useable. Why would a woman want to respond to labour with frantic behaviour? Its the lack of appropriately learned skills. As women learn these appropriate skills and apply them to the task, there is more consistency in how women respond to the process of labour and how their partners can help them stay on a sustainable behaviour track. Because labours are so similar, we can define, hear, see, experience, practice, model, remind, encourage, remember and know appropriate responses to the experience. A woman who is struggling with labour may hold her breath or scream, groan and moan, whereas a woman who is managing her responses to the sensations will tend to breathe in through her nose and out through either her nose or mouth in a manner that sounds right. Because most people have no idea what sounds right, we have to show them so they can develop the skills. We ask fathers or the support people to look at the womans face and forehead when she is relaxed during labour . A person typically has a smooth forehead when they are relaxed. When a woman wrinkles her forehead in labour, the father understands that her internal sensations are intense, and he can observe whether she is responding to them with tension. He can then help her reduce the tension using common body language or common body touch. If she is breathing more raggedly, he can model directed breathing to remind her to use breath as a focus. If the partner sees the woman standing on her toes, with shoulders around her ears and bum muscles tight, a father working with The Pink Kit is less likely to tell her to relax, drop her shoulders or come off her toes. Using his skills and knowledge, hell just tell her to relax inside the pelvic clock and minnie mouse muscles (her bum muscles). Shell know what he is talking about. She would have done that herself, except the sensations were a bit too much at the time. She still might not like the experience, but shell love how she managed herself. Shell love her partner for knowing specifically what she needed to do rather than giving her a general direction that could elicit: Im trying to relax! Speak up! or You try! One woman said after her birth: Before each contraction, I set up my directed breathing. The contractions were fine. So I thought to myself, maybe the breathing has nothing to do with it, and I just let the next contraction happen. It was off the planet in intensity. What scared me was that it took me four to five more contractions to get it back. What the statistics (on our website) dont show is how empowered both mothers and fathers feel; that the woman knew she could turn to her partner for the coaching skills; that their partnering and parenting relationships are enriched. There is no doubt that if we had all been at 100 births, we would see and hear which mannerisms are sustainable and which indicate that a woman is struggling with her perception of the experience. But the skills havent been passed on generation to generation. That ought to change, according to Common Knowledge Trust. All the couples who use these resources tell us the same thing they will pass the knowledge on to their sons and daughters. Whether they are having a natural or medical birth, women will labor at home, in the hospital, with a midwife, or with a doctor. Skills work well in all situations. Knowledge is power. It encourages conscious response rather than impulsive reaction to an intense experience, builds skills, reduces fears, and boosts confidence. Women and men alike gain a profoundly personal sense of accomplishment as a result. Most important, well pass it on to our children.