Going into labor after pregnancy and giving birth vaginally is how women have given birth since the beginning of our Humanity. Now you might have a natural birth or still have labor contractions and give birth vaginally with lots of medical care.
No matter what your labor and vaginal birth is like, you can enrich your experience of 'doing' this activity by becoming a skilled birthing mother-to-be and a skilled birth coaching dad-to-be/other.
Why is that important? There are several reasons:
1) You'll always feel more empowered by knowing you know how-to 'do' something.
2) If your labor changes unexpectedly into an emergency Cesarean you still have your birth/birth coaching skills to use.
Birthing better is all about what you 'do' rather than on what 'happens' to you or around you.
You want to know how-to cope with the naturally occurring pain of labor contractions. Birth skills matter.
