Discover the Card Game
Play together
Play together. Deal the cards. Pick a card. Choose a category. Compare scores - highest wins.
36 techniques, 5 different categories - plenty to explore.
Discover all the opportunities to soothe, support and ease birth.
Decide what may feel useful to you.
The more you play, the more you learn
But the score is only the beginning - compare the cards beside one another.
What does each offer? Where are their strengths? When might they feel useful? Is one more appealing to you - or could they work together?
Each new combination brings a new idea or possibiltiy.
Discover your own toolkit.
Birth Bumps does not ask you to select every technique or decide in advance exactly what you will use.
Meet more possibilities, understand what they may offer and discover what feels useful to you.
Not a fixed plan - a toolkit that becomes personal through play.
Let's look at a card
Each card offers you several ways to understand what it may offer:
Short, to the point. Useful. Prompts conversation and exploration. Consider if it might be helpful to you.
Five ways to look at each technique
Oxytocin
Its potential to support the calm, safety and privacy that help oxytocin flow.
Support
How it may practically or physically support the birthing body.
Mind
Its potential to support understanding, focus, belief or reassurance.
Relaxation
How it may help release tension, encourage calm or make space for rest.
Comfort
Its potential to soothe, ease or bring comfort as birth unfolds.
A suggestion, not a verdict
The scores suggest where a technique’s potential strengths may lie.
Not fixed facts or promises. You may agree with them, question them or give a technique a different weight based on what matters to you.
The comparison gives you somewhere to begin. What you make of it is up to you.
Add what matters to you
Use the two blank cards to bring your own ideas into the game. Once complete, your card becomes another possibility to compare, discuss and bring into your toolkit.
Play again. See something new.
The classic game is only the beginning.
You can also discover 10 more ways to play, each offering a different way to explore the same 36 techniques.
There is no need to learn everything at once. Return to the cards, play them differently and notice what comes into view.
