Practice during pregnancy to give birth cannot be stressed enough! How many births have you seen (ignore the short clips on Utube or the media version)? How many times have you given birth? In reality if we all had been at 100 births we'd pretty much know the secret of giving birth ... use birth and birth coaching skills! How do you gain those skills? You self-learn during pregnancy and then Practice, Practice and Practice. Once labor starts then you'll put your skills into place. Simple as that. Practice does not make 'perfect'. Practice 'perfects' your skills. Any mother and father-to-be facing The Birth want to make certain labor progresses. There are so many skills you can use to help create a progressive labor and delivery. You need to know how to recognize a progressing birth and also identify if labor is stalling. Then you need the skills to keep the labor progressing and get the stalled labor moving along again. When you use birth and birth coaching skills you are much more likely to have a progressing labor particularly if you've prepared your pregnant body to become a birthing body during your pregnancy.