Time of fruition

Dec 25 2009

This blog is going to follow along the developments of The Pink Kit re-do.

The other day I was directed to a website offering a beauty looking online childbirth course and I freaked. Some of the content sounded as though it originated with The Pink Kit.

Then I got pissed ... I am not going to my grave without these skills become widely known and used.

Then I got determined ... so I made the decision to:

• Learn how to make really good, short videos for YouTube and iPods
• Get the 29 segments finished of the rewrite that I've completed through 2nd draft and get these online as separate Pink Kit resources.

I'm stopped by lack of skills

What's stopping me exactly?

I don't have the skills to make the videos. Then this lovely man has offered to be my mentor. He downloaded a bunch of video tutorials that I'm working through now.

As I was working through the tutorials I realized that I didn't have the skills to write the content.

It's not that I can't write something but how do I write something distinct about every variability?

For example, I want to do a 2 1/2 minute video for pregnant women who want to have a vaginal birth after a Caesarean but will end up with a non-labouring delivery.

How do I clearly and concisely explain that it's a pleasure to prepare your body to give birth, gives you something to do during the last few months of pregnancy, gets you and your partner working together and you feel closer to your baby?

How do I explain that using your skills on the way to hospital, while being prepped, during the surgery and in recovery makes you feel so much more connected?

And how does that sound differently if I were talking to a first time father planning a home birth?

So I recognize that I lack content and technical abilities. Now you can understand why I'm always looking for help from others like yourself. Obviously this blog with remain on the Internet for years so my asking for help will still be shouted after I've passed. But if you're reading this at the beginning of 2010 I need your help.

Without your help I'll continue because after being freaked and pissed I got determined.

Within 6 months I will have put up 30 or more short videos and I'll have figured out a way to gain the skills. Interestingly the four people who are helping me are young men. Two have not had children, one has and the other is expecting and using The Pink Kit skills now.

What else did I decide to do?

Instead of trying to re-do this whole resource with the hopes of picking up a distributor so it can be found in bookstores, I've decided to just finish the 29 rewritten segments and make them each a wee book. These will be put online and sold.

Soon people will be able to download ebooks with long titles like: Pain and your Pink Kit Method for birthing better® skills or A father-to-be's first baby and your Pink Kit skills.

These 29 resources will then be put into talking books and hopefully translated by friends.

I'm totally determined to keep working with the Internet to find a way to spread the concept of being skilled to give birth just because you're pregnant and you will give birth so why not be skilled and prepared.