What Dads Can Do (Book & Massage DVD)

Heather Bruce
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A comprehensive guide to how energy and metaphysics create the blueprint our physical lives play out. It is an easy referenced book for Dads encouraging action in all aspects of women’s health, pregnancy and birthing areas.

Designed with the pregnant, or attempting to become pregnant couple in mind. Until now there has been very little information directed to Dad, explaining his role, and how he can actively assist his partner through this transitional time in their lives.

Heather has condensed her considerable experience into these 268 pages, cross referenced and comprehensively indexed, complete with a list of recommended reading and web addresses.

Bundled along with the book is the DVD Massage - What Dads Can Do

Sample pages:
10 WHERE IS YOUR FOCUS?
20-21 COLD - WHAT IT DOES & WHY WE NEED TO AVOID IT
33 HEALTHY MENSTRUATION LEADING TO HEALTHY PREGNANCY
44 HEALTHY LIVER QI vs BEING TOO NICE / ACCOMODATING
50 WAYS TO HELP YOUR LIVER QI FLOW
64 HONOURING OUR BLEEDING
84 WHY DO ANYTHING?
87 BEGINNING BACK MASSAGE
104 UPSET DIGESTION
107 NAUSEA / PREGNANCY SICKNESS
112 IRRITABLE BOWEL AND OTHER STRESSED GUT PROBLEMS
145 WHAT DOES A ‘SAFE’ BIRTH MEAN / LOOK LIKE?
156-157 BREECH - BABY IN ‘WRONG’ SPOT
166 PAIN = OBSTRUCTION
170 USEFUL LABOUR POSITIONS
210 DISTRESSED / SHOCKED BABY

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Background

As I had been actively involved in birthing assistance over the past 25 years, I gradually evolved a protocol for ensuring nature prevailed, regardless of location, in birthing and beyond into well mothering and breast feeding. Initially, I attended home births that were slightly problematic – failure to progress/membrane rupture and contractions not starting/Mum getting distressed and requiring something extra – and I quickly discovered that taking my Bach flower remedy kit along paid off.

By dosing Mum with the antidote for the apparent emotional energy that seemed to be running her actions, labour moved right along. When then added to the use of acupressure points, and the concepts of Active Birthing, babies followed shortly after.

Taking these methods into the hospital setting, once more than one observer (usually Dad) was allowed in the birthing environment in Brisbane, about 20 years ago, I discovered that by having a labour team – Dad to maintain the loving presence, with full eye contact to centre her, and be lover/companion, and me by massaging and pressing various points, Mum had a ’natural’ delivery – without steel intrusions.

The one to one care that otherwise would not have occurred in the modern hospital setting seemed to be the answer – Dad being coached into being super useful with his fingers and loving, myself adding in where appropriate. I realised that no-one whose birth I was called to went into the theatre, no-one was cut about, and all Mums were intact in all senses of the word afterwards. Given my ‘high risk’ population, this was amazing!

As time progressed, I saw far more pregnant women, as I specialised in infertility management, and started training Dads, firstly what to do in birth, then hitting on the idea of Dad as preparation support. Giving points and techniques to use once labour happened was not enough. I knew they worked, but labour was not the time for the newness of both playing roles in the therapeutic touching game.

Once Dad was ‘on the job’ weeks before, labour outcomes shifted. If the usage and moxaing of the sacral area happened weeks in advance, the tension and ‘stuff’ usually stored to be fought against in the middle of labour would be absent.

Thus, I noticed those women whose partners were vigilant with birth preparation had easy deliveries. Those whose partners begged off it – many and varied excuses – sore thumbs/bad backs/no time/too tired – all went on to deliver baby via external removal mode as a consequence. It was depressing to watch the connection between Dad wimping out and Mum having to go through the whole surgical circus and its long reaching ramifications.

Caesarean rates for my apparently elderly/previously infertile/’high risk’ mothers plummeted as Dads took the couple route to heart. What with the usual hospital rates of intervention, and “assistance”/”augmentation” these days, this was a vast statistical anomaly.

This is ridiculous – all it took was Mum to trust Dad, Dad to trust himself, and both to have gotten used to the idea of pummelling, massaging and pressing points and using moxa to alter the perceptions and sensations that accompany opening to baby.

Time passed, and I started the project “What Dads Can Do” as a uni assignment within an adult education degree. The concept grew from a few weekend courses, to a franchise opportunity, to the realisation that people tend to have little enough time to coordinate their personal diaries, let alone to extend themselves into many tutorials - the idea of a manual and DVD was born.

Initially, the manual was a straight forward ‘how to’ book. However I soon remembered my pregnant women patients’ partners, who generally wanted to know ‘why’. As there is little written to the general population on the subject of acupuncture theory, and self responsibility, I melded another book into “What Dads Can Do” – resulting in its present format.

There are now TWO DVDs – one (“Birthing and What Dads Can Do’) was the result of a small workshop delivered to a handful of pregnant couples, demonstrating how easy it is to alter Mum’ s comfort levels – massage and undoing some of the stuck energy stored in the fat and cellulite – bum and hips are the focus area. All women who participated looked vastly more serene and walked and moved differently after just the initial moves.

This stand alone DVD, sold with moxa sticks, is for those whose partners fear pain, who want to know what they can do specifically to help her through late pregnancy and for labour, and who are prepared to be part of the birthing team, rather than looking on feeling helpless.

The second DVD “Massage and What Dads Can Do” forms part of the manual. This takes a systematic approach through the entire body, giving massage and lymphatic/pelvic/chest drainage techniques, finding acupressure points and when to use them, plus moxa instruction. Whilst all this is covered within the manual, the DVD makes sure Dad follows the gentling and also achieves the depth required to achieve the most out of the shared birthing experience.

As I was writing “What Dads Can Do”, I realised that Mum also needs a manual – whilst Dad is waking up her body, the previously stored emotional charges may require release.

In time “Well Woman’s Baby” will be written – to give the women’s stories behind the evolution of the techniques found in these birthing tools. This book will also cover how Mum can undo a lot of the subterranean ‘stuff’ that had lead to her menstrual/sexual closing off from herself, and how by consciously undoing her programmes of self image and of blocking, rather than feeling and expressing, she can become a more vibrant and happy mother and person.

The Dads could do well to start on their own journeys of discovering more of who they are, via the various men’s resources that are mentioned in the back of “What Dads Can Do’. As Mum grows within herself, you may want to keep up.

It has always been my intention to give baby an intact loving family to grow within. All mothers without exception, when asked how Dad undergoing this preparation process was for them said, in their own, but similar words – always using the word ‘intimacy’ – that they were treated with far more reverence and respect since he attended them in birthing. All said it brought them far closer together as a couple, and continues to have obvious benefits in their relating, many months out from the experience.

All Dads to a man said they were confident, knew what to do, and did it, all being surprised at just how much their efforts were appreciated, and needed.

If you want some of this for your own family, consider investing in the manual that was written to allow you to achieve this.

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