“Doing” Your Jobs

Being pregnant is a job. An activity that prepares you to do The birth. Birth is a transition activity that prepares you to “do” parenting.

The “doing” of pregnancy physical, emotional, and mental.

“Doing” Your Jobs • In early pregnancy, you’ll feel fat and wish you

“showed.” • In the middle part, you’ll feel pregnant and hopefully

beautiful. • In latter pregnancy, you might feel like a washing

machine with an unbalanced load or absolutely terrific—or anywhere in between.

• Sex drive will either drop off to nothing or elevate to high levels of delight.

• Breasts complexion, energy, and mostly every other part of your body.

• Psychological and emotional aspects are impossible to remove. It is ultimately physical, and it leads to the physical experience of childbirth, after which it’s near impossible to remove all the anticipation, anxiety, and excitement of becoming a parent. Parenting…hmm.

Individuality vs. the Human Condition

Couples prepare for childbirth within the context of the culture. The culture passes on knowledge, skills, and information directly from mothers to daughters and fathers to sons. Skills passed on are more about preparing for the final birth rather than how to handle the labour that precedes birth.

The exact ways to breathe, relax, open up, and cope with labour pain are often not part of the picture. Whatever happens at a birth is considered normal and natural, whether the outcome is good or not, whether the woman coped well or screamed for hours.

Modern women have all the conveniences of medical assistance but still wants to know from people who have been there what will happen to them and their baby during pregnancy and birth, how to deal with a new born, and how to be a parent. You, as a modern woman, are no different. You want to do everything so you and your child are safe.

Pregnant women read books, attend classes, and see birth professional regularly. They also make a Birth Plan which might change unexpectedly. In order to reduce or prevent potential trauma to your own body and to your baby, you need something more failsafe than a Birth Plan—and that is skills to do this activity of giving birth and a commitment to using those skills as birth unfolds.

Giving Birth: The Ultimate Activity

Commit yourself to giving birth. The reality is that you have to do this activity with another person: your child. The best approach to this reality is to learn skills so you can do your part of this phenomenal activity as best as you can mentally, physically, and emotionally.

Your Pink Kit resource is about these things: • Physical preparation of your pregnant body• Learning birth skills so you can work with your baby’s

efforts (his/her “doing”) to be born. Pink Kit skills bring your mind and body together, as any set of skills does. It will make you feel competent, capable, and proud. It will make you feel in control of a situation but not your body’s actions, labour. Your Pink Kit skills, which come from people who have been there, will empower you to participate in your own unique experience.

Birthing Better Pink KitProduced by Common Knowledge Trust

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