Help Needed with Studying the Pink Kit!

by Brooke Shergold
(Vancouver, BC, Canada)

I bought the digital copy of the Pink Kit, as your review really got me excited (along with Hypnobabies.) I am just feeling overwhelmed.

I'm not sure where to start with the Pink Kit. I don't know what to read or watch first. I'll be 23wks next Wed (due March 11,) and was wondering if you could suggest what the best way to study the course would be.

What should I read first? and how long should I study each "lesson" or practice each piece for? Could you give me a time line, (ie. Week 24 read this and practice this.... Week 25 do this and read this, etc.) It would be sooo helpful!

I love your website (stumbled on it a few years ago when my friend was pregnant and subscribed to your newsletter, was very happy to have it in my inbox when I became pregnant with my first child this year!)

Thank you so much for your time!

Answer:

Brooke,

The Pink Kit is a great course, but I agree with you that it can be overwhelming at first glance!

My Pink Kit was the hard copy format and it came with a "timeline" sheet, and that's how Scott and I worked through it. I've created a new page detailing the timeline for you.

You pick a great time to ask about when to start - 24 weeks is when you get going!

I found it most helpful to begin each resource when suggested. Scott and I would then read through a section up until the point it suggested a practice exercise. We'd practice the exercise in the evening, then move on to the next section. We ended up doing an exercise every 2-3 nights to allow each of us time to read the materials.

We worked through the video by doing a section ever 2-3 nights. I went back and reviewed several video sections on my own throughout the rest of my pregnancy, too.

As you work through you'll notice that a lot of the skills get reviewed in subsequent sections, so you'll work through it faster as you get more into the kit.

Most of your learning is done between 24 and 35 weeks. Once you hit 36 weeks it'll just be reviewing what you've learned.

The Internal Work begins at 32 weeks and goes daily until your baby is born - I highly recommend you make every effort to fit it in every day!

Here's the Recommended Pink Kit Timeline!

Let me know if I can make anything clearer!

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Nov 08, 2009
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Timeline for use of the Pink Kit Package
by: Wintergreen

Hi ... I'm one of the Trustees to Common Knowledge Trust. We produce The Pink Kit Package. Kristen has asked me to add my comments to hers.

The bottom line ... there is no timeline except the one you create. Start anywhere, enjoy the process and grow your skills. Yeeks! Look at it this way. If you purchase the PKP at 38 weeks then you'll be highly motivated to learn what you can as quickly as possible. If you're 18 weeks pregnant you'll have time to browse through the resources and pick and choose which skills interest you first.

Think about learning to drive a car. You don't first learn to steer and then learn to use the gas pedal. You have to learn multiple skills and use them together and it didn't matter which one you learned first. The goals isn't the order of learning but rather your ability to bring the skills together in your body/mind relationship.

The PK is a collection of skills that you should enjoy learning no matter what order you learn them in. Practice them then draw them together in your mind/body connection so you and your partner will feel confident and absolutely know you will use them no matter what happens to you or around you during your baby's journey ... even if you have a surgical birth. Always use skills to help your baby be born. That is your job and your pleasure.

Just as there is no order for you to learn the PK skills there is not a linear order to do them. As you get closer and closer then arrive at the process of giving birth and then work with your baby's efforts to be born every moment of that experience should be full of your conscious choice of what skill/s to use ... just as you do when you drive on a journey. Behind the wheel of a car, you make subtle nano-second choices as you blend your skills, observe yourself doing so and attend to what is happening around you. You never stop using your driving skills, never stop using your birthing or coaching skills ... stay connected.

You are more than welcome to contact me at wintergreenATbirthingbetter.com if you have further questions.

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